Bill Bailey
Thank God for Darwin
Dylan Moran
Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?
Parlotones FTW
It’s not often that I’m moved to gush. Oh, alright, I’ll be honest. I am frequently moved to gush when it comes to music I love. It’s just that too…
Concert reviews – Twitter style
One of the panellists I listened to at SXSW put a slide up containing the world’s shortest sci-fi novel: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There…
Thoughts from Austin
(This is a piece I did for the M&G Podcast this week) I’m in Austin, Texas. Well, that’s true but not absolutely true. I’m at South by Southwest – a…
When Music meets Microsoft
Some time back I heard of a group of people on the internet who were spending their time creating graphs of songs titles and lyrics and posting them online –…
Sosaties and roosters: dipping a big toe into Potch
It is either slightly disconcerting or enormously flattering when you arrive at a hotel for the first time and the receptionist greets you by name. In the case of my…
A tale of four tossers
On Wednesday night I went to see Jethro Tull in concert. Not because I’m a fan, but because my wife is and one of my favourite things to do is…