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What I learnt from two open mic nights
In the last fortnight I’ve been twice to Muso Monday, a musicians’ open mic night run by Sue Fear at the Kings Heath British Legion. My mate Steve encouraged me to play guitar with him. Steve plays...
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Harkive diary 2013
The Harkive project wants to find out how and why people listen to music – and how the devices, technologies, formats, services and time available combine to create a personal listening experience. To...
View ArticleTimeline story: First Time I Met The Blues
I’ve made a timeline-based autobiographical story of key moments in discovering blues music and guitars using TimelineJS. The visual timeline looks nice spanning the full page width, rather than...
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Valve guitar amps for blues rock
Photo: RCA 6L6 GC and 12ax7s in a 1969 Fender Pro Reverb by Bee Collins At the end of 2012 I made a resolution to be playing guitar regularly by the end of 2013. Four months in and things are coming...
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What Record Store Day 2013 meant to me
Photo: Ghosts of Dead Airplanes performing outside Polar Bear Records, Kings Heath I’m giving the Record Store Day initiative a thumbs up. There was a real buzz around Polar Bear Records, the...
View ArticleLive debut with Rhino & The Ranters
Last week, I debuted playing guitar with Rhino & The Ranters, “a full bodied and flavourful maelstrom made with a roux of Skiffle / Bluegrass / Rockabilly/ Cow Punk; tinged with Klezmer, haunted by...
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Guitarist looking to join to blues/rock band
One of my resolutions for 2013 is to be back in a band playing guitar live. Ever since I started learning to play 25-odd years ago, playing guitar has been a constant source of happiness, relaxation...
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Top ten albums of 2012
Now is the season of top 10 lists and reviews of the year. I thought I’d throw my favourite albums released in 2012 into the interweb’s melting pot of unsought opinion. 2012 has definitely been a year...
View Article10 standout blues artists summer 2012: Spotify playlist
Here’s a new blues Spotify playlist of 10 artists I’ve been listening to this summer: Royal Southern Brotherhood New Horizon Royal Southern Brotherhood’s self-titled first album released in May is my...
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Etta James Spotify Playlist
Photo credit: Etta James by slowdevil (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Inspired by Richard Williams‘ article Etta James: 10 classic performances in The Guardian’s Music Blog, I went and had a listen to some of...
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Visualisation of listening habits using last.fm API
I made a data visualisation today showing the top 50 artists I listened to in 2010. The size of the artist photo is proportional to the number of times I listened to any track by that artist in 2010....
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BrumTwestival 2010 Spotify Playlist
Photo: DJing by Stef Lewandowski (Chris Unitt‘s hand on the controls, not mine) Here is the set list I DJ’d at BrumTwestival, held at Poppy Red in Birmingham, 25th March 2010. BrumTwestival was a...
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