We went to a leaving do in Leeds last night. Another never before experienced format of an evening for us; a benefit gig and art auction raffle for a skateboard based charity. Wharfe Chambers – the utterly unique venue we first went to in December for the UK premier of the film Ladyfingers was host. Before I jump into a… Read more →
It’s possible I may not get chance to blog later, as we’re planning on a Leeds outing. Al and I are in the midst of recording tonight’s RIFE radio show, which if you happen to be reading this around the hours of 20:00 – 10:00 GMT, tune in to Harrogate Alternative Radio and give it a blast. I opened the… Read more →
There’s one constant quality of art that’s hard to describe. Originality. There isn’t a readily available frame of reference because no one has done what they are doing before. This can either mean original ‘crap’, original ‘mediocre, or ‘original ‘brilliant’. Last nights gig at Seven Arts in Leeds was unquestionably original, ‘brilliant’. Being hard to describe, makes the job of… Read more →
Just been in a dream where I was at a rave. On the fringe part, near a bar with some benches and people. I took the part of an older dude where the younglings asked me about raves of old. Megadogs and Manchester I told them. And a rave in an indoor equestrian arena where the DJs were in the… Read more →
So, I’ve had this project bubbling away for a few months now. Myself and a friend DJ a weekly radio show. I’ve not talked about it at all on DragonDrop so far. I guess I’d been waiting till it hit critical mass – something other than us ‘having a go at doing a show’ to us ‘doing a good show’…. Read more →
Iv’e just had a birthday. A stupendous day where I coincidentally picked up a new (to me) car, had the day off work to spend with my fantastic wife and went out for a meal. What I thought was going to be a nice steady away family meal at the steakhouse turned out to be a 20 strong gathering. Eirene… Read more →
I’ve been playing with a tool called Snapseed to get this ‘look’. I quite like it. I’ts given the whole thing a bit of a dreamlike quality. It all does feel like a bit of a dream now though. *haahhh* Thanks to Rob B for nicking my camera for a bit and handing it back with a few doozie photos… Read more →
What a splendid festival that was. I’ll get the hick-ups out the way first up – the main one being the lack of main stage drum kit early doors, having a knock on effect (combined with a couple of other factors*), resulting in the Friday headline act – Croak Ditch – couldn’t play. Gutted about that, but that aside, a… Read more →
I was invited to play at a recorded session last night for ‘BBC Introducing’ with Jenny Eells at BBC Radio York station studio 1 with a friends band: Lobo. Introducing is a show that spotlights new / unsigned bands – some really cool stuff on there. The show goes out this Saturday at 20:00 and will be available on the… Read more →
At the weekend Eirene and I along with a collective of 10+ other people convened in Birmingham to join several thousand other people in The Q Club for the last ever Atomic Jam there. Back in the mid 90’s, Eirene and I went to one of the first Atomic Jam’s there – so last October when my friend said he… Read more →
Limetree this year ticked pretty much all the boxes and then some. Textbook festival fun. Having had a few pre festival jitters enhanced by last minute unknowns – within minutes of arriving, I’d discovered that some good friends had saved us an awesome plot for our van. I then discovered that I had a full compliment of fresh tickets and… Read more →
Just before any big adventure, I get jittery. Especially when it’s a last minute thing. On Wednesday evening an email from www.notitlemagazine.com casually informed me that I’d won a pair of tickets for Limetree Festival, via a ‘in 30 words or less’ competition. I did my excited face. Eirene, is convinced that the more I flap, procrastinate or object to the up-and-coming… Read more →
I’ve been to a vast array of festivals from the biggest to the smallest and met pretty much all walks of festival life. My first festival was Reading ’94 and from then, I’ve probably done at least one festival per year – ranging from ones I’ve played hard at, ones I’ve worked hard at and ones I’ve chilled soft at…. Read more →
The fringe, as well as the International Festival itself is bristling with brilliance this year. Having been on the committee for the fringe I saw its budding ideas blossom and bloom before my very eyes. I had to back out of involvement (due to the Jaygo / hospital saga around the peak planning time) but I’m very pleased to see that it’s… Read more →
A screenshot of my Spotify – one of my favourite applications of all time. When someone asks me “what is Spotify?” I answer “An application that gives you any song you want within one second.” And whilst that’s not entirely infallible – there are great swathes of music conspicuously absent, it does have over 13 millions tracks available. New released tend to hit spotify… Read more →
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