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Joe Medler

About Me

I am a gardener, percussioner, music lover, occasional promoter, small time world music dj, thinker, doer, rambler, experienced worrier & panicer....and one or two other things. I hope one day to play in a band that falls somewhere between 'Iron & Wine', 'Yo La Tengo', 'Arcade Fire' & 'The Concretes' with occasional flurrys of trad. folk and Jazz overtones...unless this is a musical impossibility!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

musicians, artists, performers, other professional ramblers, thinkers & general fab people!

My Blog

Growing thoughts

'That' time of year again then. Little to do in the garden. Too cold! Blimey it actually 'feels' like winter! Would ya believe it? Some spare time for gardening of the mind then.  A look back ove...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:34:00 GMT

The ultimate pay cut.

Get on the web this morning and what's staring back at me from the middle of the Yahoo home page? Only Mr Marks' cheeky grin accompanyed by an article about his next endeavour! Not overly intelligen...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Bookshop adventures!

Hmm, seem to be out of habit of writing blogs.  Surely never too busy to sit down and waffle thoughts onto the screen?...what have I been doing this past yr n bit!!?  Perhaps recent events h...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:15:00 GMT

The lure of Salsa.

Blown away by the band Salsa Celtica last weekend!!Have heard their music before but first time I've seen/danced to them live, & wow!You would'nt at first think that the two worlds of Scottish/Iri...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:17:00 GMT

Two Worlds Colide

Sat on the hill watching the sun set. Sencing the city around me and my place in it. The numerous coloured lights, up-lit clouds, distant music, my breath, damp grass, the trains moving by & rum...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:48:00 GMT

Funny goings on...

Something funny's going on.It all started with a few friends moving around, moving away etc. at the end of last year. Then more, then more! Then my turn! A building wave of change and movement.We're...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:32:00 GMT

R.I.P Alice Coltrane

One evening, a few weeks ago I discovered 'Alice Coltrane' via a Radio2 Jazz prog coming through my bed side radio. Amazing stuff! Fast and almost manic harp with percussion & double bass. Then ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:19:00 GMT

Roll up! Cabaret time!!

Come to the "Winter Warm up Fundraiser!!"Yes, it's the Resource Pools second Cabaret Night, and this time it marks the beginning of a larger winter campaign to keep this listed building in the hands o...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:27:00 GMT

Autumninal Vibes

Bloody ell' that wer a hot summer!(so much for the climate change critics) but, still, right on time the world begins to wobble & I'm breathing a sigh of relieflike someone turned the power downmy m.p...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:06:00 GMT

...and back again (or Ramble No1 - Re-vised)

In the city it's quite shite,cycling through the smogBut in the city it's alright,tidyin' gardens for a job...There's an Un-consolable gap between the edge of the country & the city.And I sit, as ...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:15:00 GMT