As I write this I am listening to the double CD given away with an issue of ‘The Wire’ magazine last year, Wire Tapper 9. There is a new compilation CD due out next week with the latest issue of the magazine, so I thought I would revisit the most recent one. There is such … Read more
Wobbling around in an ungainly manner on the “Trans-Pennine Express” from Leeds to Liverpool on the day before a Bank Holiday weekend. As a result of the timing of this, the train is heaving with people and I feel a little over-dressed in a suit, shirt and tie (I’m working today). I have to say … Read more
This will be the last post for a couple of weeks, as I take a break and travel with the family for a couple of weeks. In the last week I have bought the new (well, fairly new!) album by Tom Waits called ‘Alice’. It’s one of two releases he brought out in May of … 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
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
Welcome to my own weblog, where I will use the space perhaps once or twice a week to explore poetry, music and all things associated. Friday 13th June is a rather inauspicious day to begin posting! Well, it’s always worth challenging the superstitions. Poetry – who? The predictable list: Seamus Heaney Ted Hughes Margaret Atwood … Read more