Back at the end of July, in a little project to allow me to come to terms with a turning forty this weekend, I started an exercise to document the 41 years I've been on the planet in the form of 41 songs, one from each year from 1970. This evening I've written the last … Continue reading 41 for 40
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Magnetic Man - Perfect Stranger So there we go. 41 songs representing the 41 years that (almost) I've been on the planet. One of the hardest years to choose for, too, because since the advent of Spotify I've listened to more new music this year than I have done since I was in my 20s. … Continue reading 2010
Lily Allen - The Fear And so we get to the 40th track on this long old playlist, and the penultimate one at that. I was going to pick something by the Kings of Leon, but in the end have plumped for a track by Keith Allen's daughter. The first track from Lily's second album, … Continue reading 2009
Elbow - One day like this I have to admit that before their 2008 Mercury Prize-winning album, the only thing that I knew of Elbow was their cover version of Independent Woman, which had been used to a soundtrack of an animation of some animated cats. The album was a revelation, and this song (which … Continue reading 2008
Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya I know that some people think that they are a naff as flock wallpaper, but as you can see from that analogy I'm no arbiter of taste and fashion. Never have been, and certainly never will be. I like Groove Armada. The Renault-flogging cheese of I See You Baby, … Continue reading 2007
The third and final day of Web 2.0 went a little something like this: After sponsor workshops first thing (I was at the RIM one), the first plenary session saw a discussion about education, trailed with a clip from Davis Guggenheim's recent film on the topic 'Waiting for Superman'. After the culture shock of the … Continue reading Travelblog #w2s 4
Day two at Web 2.0 was jam-packed: Shantanu Narayen, CEO at Adobe kicked the day off, and left me feeling more concerned than ever about the future of tools being provided for the traditional creative industries. They are positioning themselves more and more as a development platform, and it just leaves me wondering what options … Continue reading Travelblog #w2s 3
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
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
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