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 -…
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Atomic Jam reminded me that I ♥ TechnoAt 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…
Limetree Festival 2011Limetree 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…
- Pre Festival jitters
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…
Deershed Festival 2011 ReviewI’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…
Harrogate Fringe Festival 2011The 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…
Spotify PlaylistsA 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…
BOXING DAY EXTRAVAGANZABOXING DAY EXTRAVAGANZA , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Quite excited about this. Got all sorts going on. I'm going to be quite busy. Conga playing, taking photo's, generally milling around and I'm doing 2 DJ sets…
FIRE Boxing Day Extravaganza - in 3DWe're chucking another log on it. Rehab, Boxing Day 9pm till 4am We're getting a few hundred FIRE branded 3D glasses made up, we've booked some top class DJ's, they have been making and collecting some super-doop…
3D60 : Three dimensional sound3D60 sound... will it catch on? First there was mono. A single point source of sound. Then there was stereo. You'd think this was the end game as far as sound production goes, as we've only got two ears, but thanks to…
- New Amplifier
Amps. The once ubiquitous stallwart of any electrical store now seem to be on the 'close to extinction' list. Nowhere in Harrogate could you walk in off the street to buy a straight home entertainment audio amp. A week…
FIRE half centuryFIRE 50 photo set on flickr What an innings. x 50 FIRE parties. Officially half centurions. I am the only person who has attended every minute of all of them (Allan nearly has, but he had to chip off early from one a…
RaffleSee the set of photos from the night here>> Here was the mid punk gig raffle last Friday. Yes, you read that right. A raffle at a punk gig. Henry (featured in the hat) had the idea to have; a birthday party, 5 bands,…
FIRE : Fringe Festival Closing PartyHarrogate Fringe Festival 'Grand Finale'. We've been asked to chuck another log on it for the official after party to the Harrogate Fringe Festival. There's the 'Crawl' day on the 31st featuring shed loads of bands…
Cricket, Lindley Woodstock and TinI was lucky enough to do a lot of my favourite activities over the past 5 days or so. Thursday - went to watch the cricket at Headingley with a lovely bunch of people. 'My' team (Yorkshire) won one of it's key matches…