While I was in Helsinki, I was interviewed by Radio New Zealand National‘s Saturday Morning host Kim Hill. The pretext was that Finland had just been declared best country in the world to live in, and since I was a New Zealander who just happened to be there, I was on the radio for quarter [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Radio,Travel
Nobody’s going anywhere this weekend thanks to invisible volcanic ash filling the sky and thwarting any attempts at flight. But it’s gorgeous outside – and so here’s a nice bit of sunny, upbeat, laid back, go-nowhere tunage to fill your afternoon. And, if you like, you can even dance a little. Cue the cries of [...]
Categories: Music
I’ve decided to move my weekly ‘Sunday Jazz‘ Spotify playlist here to my personal blog. My life’s fragmented enough as it is, and I thought that one extra blog post a week wouldn’t clutter this already busy blog too much. If you haven’t come across this before, essentially the idea is that it’s like a [...]
Photo by premasagar Today’s idea is really just a question – and a really bleeding obvious one at that: Why doesn’t this thing have a DAB chip in it? And, for that matter, why doesn’t pretty much every other phone available on the market also have a DAB chip? Given the popularity of in-car docks, [...]
At home with academic and author David Hendy I had a meeting in Oxford with David Hendy today. He’s a Reader at the University of Westminster and the author of some very fine books about radio, including the highly acclaimed Life on Air: A History of Radio Four. His book Radio in the Global Age [...]
Categories: 365,University
Photo by Ian Hayhurst This is the first of what I suspect will be a number of radio-related ideas in amongst the 30. Radio Alerts Today’s idea is a blend of existing technologies to create a service that I, for one, would find very useful – ‘Google Alerts‘ style messages containing direct links to time-shifted [...]
Sam Coley and I made a documentary about Zane. Coming soon…
Categories: Radio
Tagged: documentary, Radio, Zane Lowe
I've been told I'm hard to buy for. I suppose that's because I don't really need much of anything. I'm not that big into owning stuff. Except records. Records make me happy. If you want to make me happy, buy me a record.
With that in mind, here's a link to my Amazon Wishlist
