Given that we had Niall and Rob over from Ireland last Monday for work, I figured a good idea would be to take them out to a gig rather than leave them to leave them languishing in some hotel room somewhere with only an expenses-paid room service account for entertainment. Based on a fairly random…

Last night I went to a pub quiz at Ye Olde White Bear as a bit of a farewell for Jess who I met on the Wales trip, cos she loves a good bit of a quiz, and occasionally I like to plunge a dipstick into my pool of ignorance to see if its at…

Not that Time Out magazine is a great platform for social change, but how's bloody Dr Peter Ward, GP, who's written an article in this week's issue (July 19-26, page 19) entitled “Ditch the helmets”. Among other things (although I'll do my best not to take the remarks out of context), Dr Ward contends that:…

“Is that you ?”

Once again it's Tales of Despair for Humanity time: While I was waiting to cross at the lights to get to Camden Town tube station on Friday morning, a roadworks guy set up 5 orange cones to cordon off the area he was about to operate his digger in, and then in the process of…

Not that you'd ever describe Marcus Miller as “classic rock”. A noteworthy jazz/funk bass player and collaborator with Miles Davis, I was convinced it wouldn't be difficult to shift my spare ticket to this gig. More complex a proposition than I thought however, after arranging for 3 people in total to come along, only to…

Farewell Syd.

So I've come in to work this morning and thought to myself “I know, I'll go to kickboxing class tonight – that'll be good !”, and brought in all the gear. There I am, happily tapping away at my keyboard, looking forward to an intense workout at the end of the day, when I get…

Being the conscientious industry-news follower that I am, I've seen plenty of stories about how spam (or direct email marketing, as spammers call it) threatens to make email as we know it unusable. It sounds feasible, but then the threat's been looming for years now and we've found plenty of ways of dealing with it….

Honestly, you have to love London. On Saturday – essentially a year to the day after the Live8 concert and the scene of Pink Floyd's first public reunion in 25 years – the first day of the Hyde Park Calling Festival was underway. Far less philanthropic in sentiment, and with only a fraction of the…