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
Years ago, I put a couple of radio shows I had produced back when I was a radio producer up on the internet. One of them, Ashley’s Worlds, was a kids’ ‘cartoon for radio’, in which all the characters were cats. The other, Claybourne was a sort of sci-fi-soap-opera-thriller-adventure in which – well, lots of [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: ashley, claybourne, Internet, Radio
