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 often I couldn’t be arsed to actually do it. This time round I am so blown away by the Parlotones’ new CD I have to [Continue]

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 was a knock on the door…” (sidebar – this is actually pretty flawed as a novel, making the sexist assumption that the last man on [Continue]

(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 week long orgy of a conference that spans the triple disciplines of interactive, film and music, and all the grey areas in between that they [Continue]

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 – in fact there was a whole song chart pool on Flickr that was collecting them all. As a closet geek with a passion for music, [Continue]

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 arrival at the Rapid Waters Hotel (and I use all three of those words advisedly) 29km outside of Potchefstroom, it could only be the former. [Continue]

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 go to live concerts. Another is to keep my wife happy, so this worked all round. In fact, even saying I’m not a big fan [Continue]