After a thoroughly damp and miserable day yesterday the weather turned glorious for today’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Crawley, a case of the luck of the Irish perhaps? This parade is one of the fixed points in the civic calendar and one of the events that celebrates the town’s multiculturalism, with participation not limited […]
Entries from March 21st, 2010
Vince Clarke and the temple of Synth
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Vince Clarke and the temple of Synth · Music, Technology
Vince Clarke is one of Basildon’s best exports, having been behind Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure. Obviously he knows a thing or two about synthesizers, but I didn’t know he was such a collector. This story/video shows his remarkable collection of analogue synths. Fantastic stuff.
Meeting people and getting wet
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Meeting people and getting wet · Politics
I got a bit wet this afternoon and very wet this morning, doing various campaigning things. In the morning I was out in Broadfield doing some canvassing. It felt a bit weird doing that when we don’t have a parliamentary candidate at the moment, but of course we do still have a candidate in the […]
Tags: Elections
The International
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on The International · Life
We watched The International on DVD this evening and it didn’t really do much for us. I picked up the DVD on one of those 3-for-£12 sort of deals, so at least didn’t waste too much money on it.  I didn’t know a lot about it but could remember Clive Owen being interviewed by Jonathan […]
