My late uncle Gareth’s music collection is both vast and diverse. Going through it has yielded some interesting finds. Many of the cassettes come from his time living in the Middle East, where he was a correspondent for both The Guardian and The Financial Times. He spent a lot of time in Iran, Iraq and […]
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Sounds of the underground – Friend’s 1007fm. I’m unsure of the exact date but this tape was either recorded in the early hours of new years day 1991 or very close to it. On NYE 1990, I was at a party hosted by some bloke my dad worked with. It was fancy dress and I
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During the 1990s I was avoiding Phil Collins like the plague. Anything baring his name had become synonymous with utter, utter shitness. Whether he was taking a dig at Sinead O’Connor in The Sxn or making music so fucking bad it made your internal organs bleed. If you saw Phil, you knew you were in
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Some things get to me… The night before last, I barely slept because I’d been asked, via email, to join a WhatsApp group. Sounds a pretty minor thing doesn’t, it’s just a chat tool right? Nah m8, it’s bollocks! I’m at the frustration stage with people not using open source tools on the internet and
But seriously, an idiot’s guide to the Indie Web Read More »
This is my first blog post. What the hell am I doing? I don’t have a clue but I dig the Indie Web so I’m doing my own little part in the fight against Enshitification! Be the change you want to see they said.., Throughout this and future posts, you’ll see contradictions, mistakes and all
Hello, I must be going… Read More »