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Building a Website In A Day – The Centre For Creative Collaboration
05.18.10 | Permalink | Comment?

If you’ve been to Tuttle over the last few months, you’ll at least know where the Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC) is – it’s physically a building near Kings Cross. A former sculpture studio that acts as a fabulous multi-purpose space for the kind of open ended fun and games that drive the thinking behind [...]
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The X Factor – the death of real music?
12.12.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

My first post on here (yes i finally got round to it!)! I spend most of my time blogging profusely in my main cyber home (http://spiderplant88.wordpress.com) but thought that this post might be relevant here and I was motivated enough to throw the missive out there for comment! I finally relented this evening and put [...]
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Post-Tour Musings
10.18.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Well, for those familiar with my previous post you’ll know that I just finished the second of three tours across Europe with the blues-rock band I play bass for. Many exciting things went down from playing a 5 hour gig to a packed out audience to playing to an audience so indifferent I’m fairly certain [...]
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Sampling vs plagarism
10.07.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Reading the current flurry of comments on the blog has got me thinking about how music is shared but then I saw in the news yet another band that has been sued for sampling another’s work. Although this is a form of copying rather than redistribution I wonder whether this tight control by the original [...]
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A weekend among friends
09.05.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

(Or how a sceptic faired at Greenbelt ‘09) Suddenly two weeks before the event we were going to Greenbelt, a festival that I knew little about, apart from the name. The “we” being my wife Judith and two of my children, Jessie (13) and Rosa (11) and me. We were camping with members of 3 [...]
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Gene Robinson at Greenbelt – live blog
08.29.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

I’m going to be live blogging Gene Robinson‘s interview at Greenbelt, which starts in a few minutes. (Live blogging a sermon is an odd experience, given the kind of language that’s used, but Gene’s a pretty unique dude, and a pivotal figure in so much of the dialogue around gay rights as well as more [...]
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Getting That Gig
08.17.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I don’t know about you but i’ve read countless articles on how to act/behave/play once you’ve got yourself a gig. That’s all very good and there’s some great advice amongst it but really, that’s the easy bit. Learning not to act like a tool shouldn’t be too difficult, the hard part is finding the gig [...]