Thoughts from an entertaining first day at the Web 2.0 Summit:The afternoon started with a lunch during which seven start-ups pitched new business propositions to a board of investors. Being an avid viewer of Dragon's Den, I have to say that I ended up a little underwhelmed. Very few of the pitchers seemed well equipped … Continue reading TravelBlog #w2s 2
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There's a very different vibe to arriving at San Francisco airport to either of the New York terminals (which are the only US destinations I've been to in recent years. The immigration hall looked the same as the ones at Newark or JFK, but there was a distinct sense of welcome despite the huge queues. … Continue reading Travelblog #w2s 1
Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks Sometimes a song will consume me. For a period it will be all that I will want to listen to, and I will be addicted. There's no rhyme or reason to it. A particular drum, a guitar hook, a specific vocal... Young Folks was one of those songs. … Continue reading 2006
Emilliana Torrini - Today has been OK I seemed to spend most of 2005 trying to sell a house in South West Herts, and commuting by car from there down to Gatwick Airport on a daily basis at a time when most of that stretch of the M25 was being worked on. Given the tumultuous … Continue reading 2005
Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb In late September 2004 my life seemed, for a while, to enter something of a soap opera. In the space of about five days I handed in my notice at the BBC after nearly eight years there, saw my first marriage break up, and lost my grandfather (in the dying … Continue reading 2004
Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay 2003 was a rubbish year for music. From memory I think I spent most of it listening to stuff from the late sixties and early seventies, and often from Brazil. The bridge point between the dying embers of the dance music era, and the emerging new indie scene, there was … Continue reading 2003
Belle & Sebastian - If you find yourself caught in love The second example of a song discovered in a moment of random shuffle, I first came to hear this track a few years later in 2005, a year a spent an awfully large amount of time stuck in a car on the M25. I … Continue reading 2002
Mr Scruff - Get a move on Mr Scruff, AKA Andy Carthy, is the last person who has truly entered my roll call of Musical Heroes (which is a funny bunch including Miles Davis, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Smith, Matt Johnson, David Sylvian, Gilles Peterson and Joyce, amongst others). DJ, cartoonist, producer, recording artist, pie maker … Continue reading 2001
Moloko - The Time is Now And then the year 2000 arrived, the world didn't stop, the computers carried on working, and a new millennium and decade were begun, yet again, a year early. I really like the Moloko track. The only thing is that for ages I thought it was sung by Texas. So … Continue reading 2000
The Chemical Brothers - Let forever be 1999 was a weird year. I blame it on the fact that Prince had been singing about it from about 1984, but there were some strange, cult-like things going on, not least the millennium bug and peculiar suicide sects believing that the end of the world was nigh. … Continue reading 1999
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