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I realised today that I haven’t picked up my flute since our last concert on 3 June at Radley’s Silk Hall. It was band tonight, and it wasn’t till I got there that I realised that I was the lone…
Continue readingMy newly bought Piccolo arrived today, in a small Special Delivery package. All day it sat on my desk and taunted me. I, of course, had to open it up and put it together, and finger the keys, and I…
Continue readingIt seems that I have just managed to buy myself a piccolo. I made two bids for the item on ebay, the first making me the ‘current high bidder’ but not ‘meeting the reserve price’. The second, of four quid…
Continue reading1. What a gorgeous day it was today. After the traffic chaos of the past couple of days, I actually managed to get to work on time today – which is good because oddly, not being a morning person I…
Continue readingIn advance of the release of their fourth album the now 3-piece Estonian girl rock band (famously discovered by me by ordering blind off the internet after seeing them on the front cover of Tallinn Airport magazine), the first single…
Continue readingThe We in this post is Abingdon Concert Band, and the eviction is as of last night. Apparently there have been complaints from the Guild Hall ‘above’, and so we are being asked to leave our current rehearsal space. Let…
Continue readingNote to self: Vanilla Ninja have a single and album out next month…
Continue readingQuite incredibly, it actually was standing room only last night in Abingdon Baptist Church for Abingdon Concert Band’s Broadway Showstoppers concert. Normally we are lucky if we get three old men and a dog, and feel it a good audience…
Continue readingOr at least my beloved iRiver is unable to stop – unless by means of the remote control. After two years faithful service, my 20Gb container of my entire music collection is giving up the ghost. That’s a slight exageration…
Continue reading…is their new album Takk (Thank you) the only one that the BBC have access to at the moment. Not only are they using track three, Hoppipoka for their trails of Planet Earth, but they are using it for the…
Continue readingThe problem about very enjoyable four-day weekends, is that the Tuesday that follows them, is very busy. At the end of the day, I seem to have only barely made a dent in the backlog of journals to work through….
Continue readingNo, I haven’t been to a recording of The News Quiz, but tonight at band we played Leroy Anderson’s Typewriter – the music which is (now) more famously known as the theme tune to BBC Radio 4 number one comedy/quiz/panel…
Continue readingOn 2 March 2004 I wrote a song. Well, I say I, but it was more Hanna Katla’s song from my novel Blood & Fire. I later recorded the vocals, on veeb‘s insistance, and the results can still be found…
Continue readingUn elefant se legăna, per o pânză de paianjou Si fündcăea, un se rupea Ău mai chemat un elefant Un, doi… Doi elefanti se legăna, per o pânză de paianjou Si fündcăea, un se rupea Ău mai chemat un elefant…
Continue readingMy working day in music, as heard, no editing. This is what’s playing, ecletic as it is. Interesting maybe. Boring certainly. A little surprised it took The Beatles so long to make a show, and not so often. Certainly seem…
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