I was lucky enough to catch Flame Pilots at The Four Horseshoes pub in Graveney over the weekend. Great gig. Make sure you vote for them at You Say They Play to vote them onto the main stage at this year’s Lounge On The Farm festival.
Sounding like Seasick Steve on steroids and looking like one half of Daft Punk busking, Bob Log III rolled into Canterbury last night and blew the assembled throng at The Farmhouse out into the Weald. Part shaman, part showman and resplendent in gold lame jump suit and fighter pilot helmet his blend of surreal bluegrass warmed the cockles on a chilly April night.
Playing old classics and a selection of tracks of his new album My Shit Is Perfect, Bob Log III summed up his style when introducing the track Bump Pow! off the new album:
“There are love songs you sing about girls and protest songs you sing when you want people to stop doing something but this is a song about absolutely nothing – I shouldn’t even bother singing it!”
I’m due to go and see Bob Log III at The Farmhouse in Canterbury tomorrow night and I’m hoping to be able to shoot some video and record some audio for my music show. Keep an eye on Qik and AudioBoo…
Switching from an N95 to an iPhone I lost the ability to shoot video. Not exactly a great loss since I wasn’t exactly prolific on the video front. I also discovered the ability to quickly and easily make audio podcasts using AudioBoo which naturally felt much more comfortable. But I still hanker after video now and then so I’ve dug the old N95 out from behind the sofa and reinstalled Qik.
I’ve added a Live Video page to this site and video will be filtering their way through in due course.
I’m testing a new iPhone-based audio blogging podcasting service called AudioBoo. My page of Boo’s is here. So far, so good.
The only problem is that this blog on WordPress.com doesn’t embed flash widgets so I’ve had to dig into the AudioBoo source code to find the link to the original mp3 file which will hopefully work below.
Ah, that won’t be working then.
Update: Oh, it is working now. Hurrah!
Update: You can subscribe to my AudioBoo’s here.
TechCrunch were spot on when comparing Kutiman’s latest project Thru-You to DJ Shadow’s work particularly 1996’s Entroducing. Essentially a music mix using YouTube footage instead of vinyl or mp3s. Simply wonderful. Enjoy.
The opening track (below) Mother Of All Funk Chords.
We go back along way me and Britain’s once all powerful and monopolistic telecoms provider. We’ve had our ups and downs. No, let’s be honest, mostly downs. But that might all be about to change.
Last week I had the pleasure of spending an evening with JP Rangaswami and his team at BT Design who are effectively charged with repairing and turning the BT oil tanker around. Speaking to just a few of his incredibly smart and dedicated team I found myself transforming from a self styled BT hater into a mutant evangelist.
Their success will be no mean feat. The challenges facing BT are many and varied. It’s not just the plethora of disgruntled domestic and business customers who, like me, have found the simplest of interactions with BT to be seriously traumatic, but new disruptive business models as well as straight out and out competition with other service providers.
I had been asked along to represent a typically unhappy BT customer. It turns out I was not alone. The team are perfectly aware of BT’s numerous failings. Indeed, many of them share similar experiences to us all. A couple I spoke to weren’t even BT customers.
The idea was floated that I be invited back next year to see if BT had done enough to entice me back. Whether I do or not remains to be seen but I had reasons to be optimistic as I left with JP’s words ringing in my ears: “Maybe we’ll do it, maybe we won’t but I, for one, will certainly die trying.”
Hugh Macleod’s upcoming book Ignore Everybody.
…but it ain’t exactly clear.
Firstly, The Nick Reynolds Show has moved to http://nickreynolds.net.
Secondly, er that’s it. I’m keeping this domain free for a very exciting potential project which probably won’t kick off for a few weeks yet, if at all.
Stay tuned.
