Last night I had the joy of helping out at a benefit event for Bletchley Park - dreamt up and written by James Cary - who also writes Hut 33 on radio 4.
It was actually a pretty fun day. I’d been working with the director for a few days putting together graphics and cleaning up [...]
I’ve mentioned This American Life a couple of times before on my blog. I’ve even bought the t-shirt. No, really.
Anyway - I’m a little behind listening to the podcasts and finally go around to listening to one called Bad Bank from February this year. I’m constantly amazed at the clear, jargon busting, explanations and this [...]
There are simply too many things to talk about. In the last month or so I’ve been involved in a hack day at work, been to a U2 concert, spent a week hanging out with monks at worth abbey and been at and involved in the greenbelt festival.
All of these experiences have left me feeling [...]
So it seems that I have been seriously underestimating stadium gigs as ways of enjoying the experience of music. Having pretty much exclusively gone to sub 1k capacity venues for the last 15 years it seems that stadiums are not just less personal, less intimate, but some different, something more than the parts. Apparently my [...]
Last night I hosted an evening of poker at my make shift casino. There were not one, but two, curries with ample naan and chapatti. There was music taken from Poker Lounge (Very Best in Poker & Casino Music) and there were some little crib sheets to help people work out the value of their [...]