Ub40: The 30th Anniversary Of "Signing Off" Documentary by Sam Coley on Mixcloud This is the sound of where I live – including the people I work with, like Paul Long, Sam Coley, Jez Collins and Robin Valk; the music of Birmingham and specifically Kings Heath; as well as the characters from around here as [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music
Tagged: documentary, Radio, UB40
While I was in Helsinki, I was interviewed by Radio New Zealand National‘s Saturday Morning host Kim Hill. The pretext was that Finland had just been declared best country in the world to live in, and since I was a New Zealander who just happened to be there, I was on the radio for quarter [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Radio,Travel
Nobody’s going anywhere this weekend thanks to invisible volcanic ash filling the sky and thwarting any attempts at flight. But it’s gorgeous outside – and so here’s a nice bit of sunny, upbeat, laid back, go-nowhere tunage to fill your afternoon. And, if you like, you can even dance a little. Cue the cries of [...]
Categories: Music
I’ve decided to move my weekly ‘Sunday Jazz‘ Spotify playlist here to my personal blog. My life’s fragmented enough as it is, and I thought that one extra blog post a week wouldn’t clutter this already busy blog too much. If you haven’t come across this before, essentially the idea is that it’s like a [...]
Photo by premasagar Today’s idea is really just a question – and a really bleeding obvious one at that: Why doesn’t this thing have a DAB chip in it? And, for that matter, why doesn’t pretty much every other phone available on the market also have a DAB chip? Given the popularity of in-car docks, [...]
At home with academic and author David Hendy I had a meeting in Oxford with David Hendy today. He’s a Reader at the University of Westminster and the author of some very fine books about radio, including the highly acclaimed Life on Air: A History of Radio Four. His book Radio in the Global Age [...]
Categories: 365,University
Photo by Ian Hayhurst This is the first of what I suspect will be a number of radio-related ideas in amongst the 30. Radio Alerts Today’s idea is a blend of existing technologies to create a service that I, for one, would find very useful – ‘Google Alerts‘ style messages containing direct links to time-shifted [...]
Sam Coley and I made a documentary about Zane. Coming soon…
Categories: Radio
Tagged: documentary, Radio, Zane Lowe
Today I launched a new weekly jazz show. But it’s not on the radio. In fact, all it is is a Spotify playlist linked from a Posterous blog page. You can find the show here: Dubber’s Sunday Jazz. It’s a two hour playlist of jazz, chosen by me. No talking – just the tunes. And [...]
Just returned from London where I was interviewing Zane Lowe for a radio documentary I’m making with Sam Coley for Radio New Zealand. The programme is called Musical Chairs, and it’s a series that focuses on New Zealand musicians, and tells their story through interview and music. Of course, Zane’s not really known over here [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio
