The heat-wave continues in Britain, and it is such a big deal because it happens so rarely. Is it nostalgia that makes our childhood memories feel as though all summers were hot and sunny? It is some years since we have had such a good summer season. A different climate brings a different mood. As … Read more
The travels continue. Over recent days I have been travelling back to sounds from the 70s that were part of my growing up. Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ album reminds me of that whole New York scene around her group, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Then there was the whole American scene of Pere Ubu, Devo, … Read more
When you just know that the stopping will result in complete body shut-down. The book I am writing on coping with change within organisations, will have a chapter about energy cycles in it. On the cycle which I have mapped for myself, I am in the ‘Recovery’ mode – exhausted, minimising energy use, and trying … Read more
I’m writing this whilst wobbling about on one of the not so new Virgin West Coast trains from London to the North West of England. The last couple of days I have travelled a thousand miles, half by train and half by car. As a result the creative expression is a bit low and lacking. … Read more
The music I play tends to reflect the mood I am in that day, and whether I am listening attentively or doing something else at the same time. Today, I have been working and writing whilst listening to music, so the day has veered away from music that demands to be listened to and invades … Read more
“many introverts produce work so controlled and organised that all life has gone from it” – William Empson The introvert needs to take extra effort to get out there and interact, otherwise the tendency to define life in terms of achievements can become all-consuming at the expense of sanity. Ideas of introvert and extravert personality … Read more
So we all find it difficult at times to apply ourselves to the things that need doing, when there are lots of things that don’t need doing, but we want to do because they are fun! This morning I was supposed to be settling to the redrafting of the PhD thesis which I feel like … Read more
So, no longer are the realms of recording the domain of the big record companies and the elite that can afford equipment. Now, anyone with a PC which has a CD Rewriter can produce CD-R’s with whatever they want on them. Last night I spent a couple of hours experimenting with sound files, and creating … Read more
23:16 already. Hectic day behind me. The work on booklets, publicity material etc continues at a frantic pace. Work also goes by at a lightning streak. And all through all, I am left wondering whether the more one knows the less one knows – if you know what I mean. If only I could write … Read more
I have already mentioned that the first book in the bluewater books imprint is being prepared and will be ready by the end of this week. Why am I doing this? Well, after years of dreaming about being a published writer – and struggling with the reality that there is not a living to be … Read more