Category Archives: Music
New music – Sparrows
I love hot weather, but I just wish it wouldn’t be so damn humid at 1:00am when I’m trying to do some work in the hope of making myself tired enough to justify going to bed… I made some new … Continue reading
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The Great British Music Debate
So, the Great British Music Debate… Organised by BBC Radio 2, this marathon broadcast filled R2′s evening schedule on 2 July. I rarely, if at all, listen to Radio 2, although I support their apparent attempt to cover the popular … Continue reading
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Bill Jehle interview
Regular readers may know that I contribute to the Guitarist Home Recording Collective, a fun little Net community involving guitarists of all styles and ability levels. One of my Collective friends, Bill Jehle, has released an independent CD of his … Continue reading
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New music – Talking About Nothing on a Summer Evening
A little bit of new music. It’s a short collaboration with my good pal Rick Booth… Talking About Nothing on a Summer Evening (3.2MB mp3) Here’s how it happened… Rick gave me a recording of his guitar part, a solo … Continue reading
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Doug Boucher on the state of music
I talk about music a lot. I frequently despair at the superficial, artless machinations of the music industry and the seeming mistrust of creativity. I get myself into a terrible froth sometimes. But in a post to alt.music.mike-keneally, Doug Boucher … Continue reading
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Could Kenny G be classed as a terrorist?
Just a couple of good links to tide you over until I can string together some words of my own… An article from AlterNet could so easily be about life in one of the dictatorships that George Bush wants to … Continue reading
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iTunes 4 and the Apple Music Store
Apple have released iTunes 4, the latest version of one of my favourite pieces of Mac software. Version 4 comes with AAC encoding and playback facilities; it’s nice to see Apple keeping up with new developments, even if I’m having … Continue reading
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Keneally in the UK!
Last week was particularly good for me in a musical sense. As you may know (I hardly hide the fact) I’m a quite hopelessly dribbling fanboy when it comes to Mike Keneally. I’ve been buying his albums since the first … Continue reading
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Mah-Jongg, Mercury Rev and midnight snacks
This evening, Nicola and I made the 45-second trek (!) to our local, the Robin Hood, where we met our friends Lindsey and Howard. A couple of months ago, we gave Lindsey a Mah-Jongg set for her birthday, and this … Continue reading
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Pax Americana, badly mastered CDs
Between trying to get the ‘sfocata’ site finished, trying to record more stuff and trying to practise guitar more, I haven’t really had time for much else. So I’ll just use this entry to recommend a few interesting links… If, … Continue reading
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