Tonight I was listening, as I often do, to an internet radio station called ‘Made in 80’s Radio’. I do this when I want something in the background that is mostly familiar. There is plenty to not like about it. It is one of those dreadful channels with no presenters: just music chosen by computer […]
Entries from September 19th, 2013
Normal service will be resumed…
September 18th, 2013 · Comments Off on Normal service will be resumed… · Life
…in October. Jayne and I are off to Egypt tomorrow for our first holiday in two years and are obviously very excited about it. The only fly in the ointment is worrying about how the dogs will react to us not being around for so long. Frankie is house-, dog, and cat-sitting and Charlie will […]
Tags: Holidays
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends
September 17th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Music
The other day Sky Arts showed a film about ELP’s 1970 appearance at the Isle of Wight festival, which I have been watching this evening. A strange concert film, but interesting. And interesting for the same reason that it is strange – for a lot of the time it doesn’t even bother showing the band […]
Down with the kids at last?
September 13th, 2013 · Comments Off on Down with the kids at last? · Music
After years of avoiding the latest teen sensation bands I have finally found myself hooked on a new band whose ages are allegedly 15 to 17. Does this mean I am getting in tune with youth culture? I think not. The band in question are The Strypes, and it is more a case of a […]
Tags: Doctor Feelgood·Nostalgia
Never felt so wrong
September 12th, 2013 · Comments Off on Never felt so wrong · Music
Back in 2006 I bought two CDs at the same time: the Arctic Monkeys’ first album and Arcade Fire’s Funeral, which was a couple of years old by then, but I was a bit late in catching up with it. At the time I can remember thinking (and writing here) that, although I enjoyed the […]
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Through the looking glass
September 11th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Work
Back to work tomorrow after two days of training. Being on training courses is a strange and pleasant experience, like a verson of work through the looking glass. You are still in a corporate-branded environment but you need not even look at a computer all day. The food is the same as in the normal […]
Tags: WILT
Full house
September 9th, 2013 · Comments Off on Full house · Life
It has been a bit of a hectic weekend, with three overnight guests on Saturday and the whole family here on Sunday, for the first time ever. Jayne has been a bit tense and panicky all week in anticipation, but it all went very well.
Bright idea – CVs revisited
September 6th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Life, Work
Soon after my scribblings about CVs I found that somebody I know has not only had a bright idea about CVs but has actually done something about it. She has done her own CV as an infographic: It is certainly eye-catching, though it would probably be more successful in jobs that are in some sort […]
Tags: Bright Ideas·Infographics
Yet another bass prodigy
September 5th, 2013 · Comments Off on Yet another bass prodigy · Music
I was doing a bit of channel-surfing tonight and happened upon a programme on Sky Arts which has musicians playing live sessions in a studio. I think it is called something like the Basement Sessions. When I got to it it was halfway through a song by somebody I didn’t know and I might have […]
In the irony business
September 4th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Life
It only struck me yesterday, but there is something terribly ironic about all those adverts on TV with the Welsh opera singer, the meerkats and the little number plate-checking robot. All those adverts have one thing in common: they are trying to build up brand awareness and brand loyalty with the public. All the companies’ […]
