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Tweetings- Question you don't want to be asked five minutes after waking: "Which recording of #Wagner's Ring Cycle would you recommend?" about 20 hours ago from web
- Night on the synth. I remember when I used to have nights on the tiles. 08:45:05 PM September 01, 2010 from web
- New blog post: Morphine in C - Ok, so driven in from the garden by a plethora of wasps and one annoying neighbour, I... http://ow.ly/18NFJh 12:32:25 PM August 31, 2010 from HootSuite
- Back to work today. It's just not right. 06:41:58 AM August 31, 2010 from web
- #korg microkorg is a wonderful synth. I'd have killed for this twenty years ago. Replaces a roomful of boards and patches. 05:58:24 PM August 29, 2010 from web
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Volbeat – The Garden’s Tale
Posted on July 20, 2010 | No Comments -
Top 5 Albums of 2009
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsFor those of you who may be reading on facebook, you might be better popping over to http://www.nelefa.org to read this. If you’re already here – well, that’s alright then Ok, so these weren’t all necessarily released in 2009, but some of them were. They’re... -
The Indifference of Heaven
Posted on December 5, 2009 | No CommentsJust because. No particular reason. -
Syncing ratings from iPod back to iTunes
Posted on August 11, 2009 | No CommentsIt doesn’t do this, by default, unless you’re syncing your whole music collection automatically. Which is a bit rubbish if, like me, you have an 8Gb iPod Touch and a 60Gb music library. See, what I tend to do, to make sure I actually rotate... -
Synergy WIN!
Posted on February 21, 2009 | No CommentsDespite loving music and loving reading, I very rarely do both at the same time. For some reason, though, while sitting on the sofa reading “Wizard and Glass” this morning, I felt an urge to put on “Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.” by the inimitable... -
Tuba Toothpaste (will the bad jokes never end?)
Posted on September 9, 2008 | No CommentsWell, that’s an odd thing! Getting a bit better now – the repeated scales and slurring exercises have enabled me to at least wrest a tune from its brassy bowels. Or something. But the odd thing is, since exercising in earnest, I can actually get... -
Tuba Smartie Pt. II
Posted on September 8, 2008 | No CommentsSlurring. That’s what I need to do. Low G/A -> F is flawless. G -> B Fine. High(er) C->F fine. Low G/A -> High(er) F not as smooth as it could be – mostly because of the changes in embouchure at C, G and C.... -
Posted on December 17, 2007 | No CommentsWe’re very pleased with ourselves. Last night was the Livingston and Broxburn Brass Band’s christmas concert and the whole lot of us were playing! And we weren’t awful! So, nerves shot to hell, the panic is just starting to subside (panic, I might add, caused...
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The Crash Test Dummies Save Christmas
Posted on December 16, 2007 | No CommentsJust when the jingly-jangly boyband-poptastic misery of Christmas was getting into it’s sticky-sweet candied frenzy, an amazing discovery has been made! The Crash Test Dummies made an album of Christmas Carols and I never knew! It’s a collection of all the traditional christmas standards and... -
Ubuntu + mpd + Jinzora + Hi-Fi == ACE
Posted on September 15, 2007 | 8 CommentsOk, so here’s the problem: I have a decrepit old PC that I need to find a job for or it’s destined to sit on a scrapheap biodegrading over the next 10,000 years. We don’t have room to have all our CDs anywhere near handy...