The 7″ record is 60 years old today! Several have been manufactured since then. I have quite a few. It is a wonderful format, bigger than a CD and rounder and blacker than a digital audio file. Actually the very first one was not black, but green. Thanks to Disgraceland for bringing this anniversary to [...]
It’s Ada Lovelace Day today and the brief was very open – just write a blog post about a woman in technology who you revere. So here’s mine. The above video shows Delia Derbyshire demonstrating reel-to-reel music recording and production. Derbyshire was known for her creative sound engineering work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (which [...]
Here’s a music video for scene stealers Truckers Of Husk. I’m sure you will agree it is mighty fine – a carnival of craziness, much like their genre-mashing music. For this we can thank Casey Raymond and Ewan Jones Morris, the co-directors. They were the ones who made the recent Future Of The Left video [...]
Happy Saint David’s Day! Here’s an electric take on the Welsh national anthem. Tich Gwilym – Hen Wlad Fyn Nhadau (YouTube) [1:36] Tich Gwilym – Hen Wlad Fyn Nhadau (Spotify) [1:59] Best version ever.
I was DJing there only last Friday, now it’s finished. Full statement from The Point. The Point has been a terrific place for the music scene in Cardiff. I have witnessed and participated in so many awesome gigs and events there. Just off the top of my head, who remembers Polar Bear, Johnny Clarke, Candi [...]
Have you tried Spotify yet? Tucked away in today’s post on Spotify’s own blog is a file listing newly included recordings by some of my favourite labels and artists. Labels represented on the list today include: Rough Trade, Poker Flat, XL, Rhino/Elektra, ECM, Universal, Pressure Sounds and more… Artists on the list from today include: [...]
The Joy Collective is a rather splendid blog about music. It tends to focus on Cardiff, Newport and Bristol, which makes a lot of sense because all three are close enough to share their gig-going crowds. Plus, truly, they are among the UK’s best cities for gigs. Recently Will at The Joy Collective sent me [...]
Google searches for “Twitter” over time, source: Google Trends This graph shows the huge increase in searches for the word “Twitter” on Google. It could be said to roughly correspond to the service’s popularity and importance. Or maybe, for some of the non-adopters, it signals their rising levels of scepticism and annoyance in constantly hearing [...]
Here are two embedded videos. They are identical. I’ve posted them so you can play them both – simultaneously. Have a play around with these identical videos. Experiment. No rules, but some things to try: use the pause/play button to synchronise the videos as close as possible. To bring them closer, just delay the video [...]
Is it me or is this possibly the worst PR ever? This clip has been broadcast today by TV and covered by loads of media – and counting. It’s a great example of how NOT to communicate. Whatever you think of Ringo Starr as a musician, he has worked hard over a span of five [...]
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