I took a quick trip down to London on Friday night and slept on Kerryn and Haydn’s couch. That meant I got to spend yesterday morning with my nephews Shay, Zac and Asher, and watch a couple of episodes of Shaun the Sheep.
Naturally, I took a few photos before heading back up to Manchester. I [...]
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One of the meetings I had today in Bristol was with contemporary ‘classical fusion’ composer Richard Anthony Jay. We met at a riverside cafe, and we discussed ways for him to bring his music to a wider audience.
I really like his stuff. Soundtracky, evocative and really thoughtful, but [...]
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A cafe/bar in Bristol
I went to Bristol today, met up with Steve Lawson, and did a bit of consultancy with some music types. One of the meetings was at the above bar, which was lovely. Spacious, light, airy, relaxed, great food, good coffee, comfy couches…
If they had free wifi, I’d probably have moved in.
Where’s [...]
Categories: 365, Music, Travel
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Late afternoon train to London
I took a train down to London to give an evening lecture to the Westminster MA in Music Business Management students. Nice day, with a lovely sunset – which is always worth taking the Chiltern line to Marylebone for.
Takes longer, but it’s cheaper – and on nice days, it’s far [...]
Categories: 365, Travel, University
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Gijs, Michel, Andreas, Chris and Bart pack the van after an instore gig
prison yell by audiotransparent
Actually, I’ve known the guys from Audiotransparent for a while now. I met them a couple of years back on my first visit to Groningen, and I now have all three of their albums. In fact, I just bought the [...]
Ian, Andrea, Steve and Saskia – New Music Strategies
Love this shot. Not only is it a good capture of these four people at work, it’s also pretty much the moment we became a new business.
Ian Wallman (Oxford & Birmingham), Andrea Goetzke (Berlin), Steve Lawson (London), Saskia Troccoli (Amsterdam) and I came together to meet in [...]
Categories: 365, New Music Strategies, Travel
A bunch of us went out to dinner in between the conference part of the day and the Unconvention showcase gigs. I ended up sitting next to Wotienke (say “Vo – tinker” and you’re close enough).
She’s a Dutch singer-songwriter who performs with Moravian musicians from the Czech Republic, which adds a really interesting flavour [...]
