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About Me

Writer, DJ, historian, crate digger, content sleeper.My current major project is the book Shifting Sands: The Story of Acid Folk. I'm currently meeting and talking to lots of incredible musicians who are being so warm and generous, sharing their memories and opinions with me.Shifting Sands will be published by Jawbone Press in 2010.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with musical taste obscure or idiosyncratic in nature, which can be debated, with wit, at length.

My Blog

Updatin' my myspace

Ah, it feels like so long since I was on here.  That's because so much has happened and my life has really changed.  Over the past couple of years I have been writing for Shindig magazine which has be...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:26:00 GMT

Best Female Solo Hits 1983-2007

Purely self-indulgent; my favourite top 75 female solo hits of the past 25 years.100. Tweet - Oops (Oh My) [2002]99. Frances Ruffelle  Lonely Symphony [1994]98. Samantha Fox  Love House [1988]97. Ja...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:16:00 GMT

"He commits murder and serves no time? I won’t have it!"

Isn't it wonderful when something that you hardly paid attention to before becomes one of your favourite things in the world?This happens quite a bit with music - buying volumes of stuff means that th...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:35:00 GMT

Club 18-30 for nerds

Fresh from Open University residential school in big bad London!Club 31-85 is perhaps more accurate since apart from a Glaswegian lad I met I was at the bottom curve of the age bracket, and how often ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:50:00 GMT

More lists of songs

Can it really be in excess of a month since I last took the time to update here? Indeed. It's eight slender days since I even logged on... considering the hourly check-ins I was undertaking in the f...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:48:00 GMT

Last night's Diggery Pokery, The Washington

As usual, Diggery Pokery was a great deal of fun. The Washington was pretty packed, something that surprised me given that the football was on and more importantly the triple firing on The Apprentice...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:03:00 GMT

Top friends

Anyone else read this article?http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/Ca me across it when I was looking how to change the order of top friends, or at least not have the social death of Tom a...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:58:00 GMT

ABC. Always Be Closing.

You see this watch? This watch cost more than your car.If you've seen Glengarry Glen Ross then you'll know what I'm referencing here - the hardboiled world of high-pressure selling. In GGR it is rea...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 01:57:00 GMT

Moog

Saw the moog documentary this evening - what a disappointment! I'd already become increasingly convinced feature length documentaries are just one big excuse for self-indulgence and then I see this -...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 14:19:00 GMT

Playlist, Eurovision and Clearout

Playlist for yesterday's www.gambloradio.com (online radio show I do with Brother Logic (Simon) who is not on myspace):1. Luv' - Who Do You Wanna Be [With Luv' ; Philips]2. Stefy - Chelsea [CD Single ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 06:15:00 GMT