Ten things I’ve learned this week: 1. For some reason, Yahoo wants to access my Facebook chat, in return for allowing me to share my Flickr photos on my Facebook profile. 2. The Akai LPK-25 mini midi controller keyboard will come in very handy if your playing technique is a good as mine! 3. Someone [...]

Here’s the review of my track “Half Past One”, which was one of the Hot Picks in the readers’ demo section of this month’s Future Music magazine: “Time now for a little intrigue and mystery. Just what is this track all about? Look man, don’t hassle me! Just go with the flow! Y’dig? We dig. [...]

In the last week  I’ve had my very first interview on the radio, and my kids made some “well done” messages for me…. Those nice folk at Chorlton Arts Radio, part of the Chorlton Arts Festival in Manchester, UK, invited me onto one of their shows last Friday evening. My very first radio interview! I [...]

Since I’ve started up this new version of my blog, I’ve found that I’m getting more spam comments than the old one. However, I’m not sure why anyone would want to use my website to promote their DVDs, shoes, or any other product, when they can find a bigger following on someone else’s site. They [...]

Here’s something new for me….the live BBC 2010 General Election coverage. Hopefully some people will find it useful. So far (at 2215 UK Time), the exit polls are predicting a win for the Conservative Party, but not with enough of the 326 seats needed for an outright win. Anyway..here’s the live feed….

So, Ultravox didn’t make it to Number 1 in the UK top 40 singles charts with their single “Vienna”.  The song didn’t even reach the top 100. Did anyone think it might, especially as the song is nearly 30 years old? Well, a lot of people did, especially those people who were involved in the [...]

Without repeating exactly what Ian Shepherd wrote on his production advice website, you should really watch this video. I can’t really write much about it that will really do it justice, so it’s probably a good idea if you just watch it first – like I did – and then see what you think about [...]