River of ice outside the hotel I’ve spent the last few days in Helsinki at a music industry conference called Is This It. Since I’m not that great at mingling (or at least, slow to start), I brought my laptop down to the first networking breakfast session on Friday. Coffee and email, while people settled [...]
Tag Archives: Seminar
Jetlag 2
I’m back from New Zealand, where I had a fantastic time doing all sorts of interesting things. I gave two presentations, did three radio shows, met up with friends and family, attended a couple of industry events, visited several cafes, interviewed half a dozen interesting people – and worked out the structure, treatment, instrumentation and [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Photography,Travel
Tagged: New Zealand, Photography, Seminar, Travel
Trip to New Zealand – perhaps 6
I’ve been trying to find a way to get over to New Zealand in the next few months. I’ve been asked to present a radio documentary about Zane Lowe, and I need to sit down with some people back in New Zealand with a tape recorder rolling. Of course, there’s no budget, and so I [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Travel
Tagged: New Zealand, Seminar, Travel
Twhisky and Twavel 2
After the relatively slow start to 2009, and the lovely, restful Christmas break, I’ve started organising things for the year, and as I start booking things in, it looks like a pretty busy one. In fact… the past week or so has meant a rapid takeoff in the amount of work and travel I’ve been [...]
Categories: Book,Business,Music,New Zealand,Whisky
Tagged: Book, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Seminar, Whisky
Top 100 albums of 2008? No idea. 4
David McInerney, Tom Arnott, Adam Regan and me – after a spectacularly successful DJ gig at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath I often do top 10 or 20 lists (and sometimes even top 100 lists) of music from the year gone by. I generally spend quite a bit of time over this, and then [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Music,New Zealand,Travel,Whisky
Tagged: 2008, Birmingham, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Personal, research, review, Seminar, Travel, University, web, Whisky
Bad form as a social media strategy 6
There are people I know who would be horrified at this ratio I don’t know if you use Twitter, but it’s really quite remarkably useful. More so back when it did the updates to your mobile phone, before they stopped all that here in the UK – but even so, still a really cool bit [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Hamburg, Internet, Seminar, Shambala, Social media, Twitter
The Creatures of Belfast 0
I’ve just spent four days in Belfast hanging out with musicians, sleeping on their couches and spare beds, going to gigs, doing a spot of consultancy and speaking at a music industry seminar. As you’d expect in Ireland (and under those circumstances) there’s no shortage of stories to tell. I thought I’d start with one [...]
Tagged: Belfast, Farl, Ireland, Music, Seminar, Travel, University
Postcard from Chicago: SOBCon08 0
Yep, that slide really says ‘Better Blogger Workflow’… So… the conference. I went to Chicago for a conference, not just to go to jazz gigs, wander around and look at public art, travel on the local rail (it’s called the ‘L’ train because it’s short for ‘Elevated’ – who knew?), drink in bars and buy [...]
Categories: Travel
Chicago – part 2 0
Tristan answers a question “No… it’s not working yet.” So I didn’t quite get to Chicago yesterday. I arrived in Manchester around 11am, just in time to see a plane take off in the distance, which may well have been the one I was meant to be on. I put the call out on Twitter [...]
Categories: Music
Student music 2
I’m in Leeds at the International Jazz Conference, hosted by the Leeds College of Music. I presented a paper with Tim Wall about how jazz music fans interact online. We think it’s interesting stuff. But the best thing about this place is the sheer overwhelming talent of the students, who seem to burst into song [...]