I spend a lot of time in my new(ish) job at Rattle coming up with ideas, for both clients and ‘innovation’ competitions and funds like 4iP. It’s all pretty stimulating and rewarding stuff (especially when up against deadlines!), but the downside to this is that a lot of ideas you’ve spent quite a bit of [...]
At the moment everyone’s talking about the recently-announced Apple iPhone, which will have iPod functionality on it. One angle I’d like to take is that it represents just how far the iPod has become, and hints at how the iPod will become even more ubiquitous in the future. Most of the people I know now [...]
This is a type of blog post that I haven’t done for ages: the gig review. When I was Head of Music at Rare FM, a job that meant getting review tickets to gigs a couple of times a week, I churned out loads of gig reviews, but since then I haven’t gone to gigs [...]
When a Spanish bar decided to get around the paying of music licensing fees by playing only Creative Commons licensed music, the Spanish collecting society Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) tried to sue. Last month, the court ruled in favour of the bar, recognising for the first time that it’s possible to use [...]
Damn, I’ve got loads of weblog posts in draft (either half-finished on my weblog system or still in my head) that I haven’t gotten round to writing over the past few days. Went to see a film at the weekend that I want to write about. Have some thoughts about the ‘citizen journalism code’ that [...]
Am I going crazy or is the Charlotte Church ‘Crazy Chick’ single (not to be confused with the ringtone), actually okay?
I’m going to see Good Charlotte next Sunday (at Brixton Academy). Yes really. Okay, so I didn’t pay for the tickets. In support are Millencolin and Explosion, both of which are meant to be good. Update: I didn’t go to this in the end, as I gave the tickets to someone who wanted to go [...]
Haven’t got time to properly report on this, but I’ve just come across some interesting US-based articles on ‘the end of radio’, the first by Long Tail entitled Exploding Radio, the second by Rag’s Soapbox entitled The End of Radio (as we know it), both are a reaction to articles written in Wired Magazine. Both [...]
On Friday afternoon, we finally managed to pull off what I’ve been trying to organise for a while – a recording session in the BTV (Bloomsbury TV) Studio (run by UCL Union BTV and Film societies). The session came about as a mammoth collaborative effort between the Rare FM, BTV, Live Music and Stage Crew [...]
On Wednesday evening, UCL held its annual ‘Concert In The Quad’, in which bands, singers, choirs and jugglers all perform from the UCL portico to an audience in the Quad. Last year, the event was a wash-out due to rain, but this year there was a sizeable crowd. They had a really good PA rigged [...]