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Sex and Violins: Bytes From The Big Apple
21st June 2010 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Perhaps I can blame the pace of life, the infinite travelling, or a particularly intense period of multi-tasking, but the past twelve months seem to have simply flown by. After fifteen years spent pickin' 'n' grinnin' in Nashville, I can't believe that I've experienced my second equinox in New York. This time last year, springtide didn't so much spring into summer, it limped bedraggled into the solstice with the city...
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The Ministry of Sound Radio
18th March 2010 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It seems that hardly a day goes by without the finger of suspicion being pointed at the BBC. Googling and gossip is at an all time high, and the nation’s chattering classes and nattering networks are abuzz with criticisms and carping. The Corporation’s unfathomable remit and the indelicate quality of its output top the list of tetchy topics. Equally prickly are the budgeting excesses, ageism, political bias and that old...
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Bytes From the Big Apple: A Really Big Tim McGraw Webcast
22nd October 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Of late, the Ed Sullivan Theatre at 1697-1699 Broadway has been subjected to a level of interest not seen since the days when Elvis Presley appeared there in the fifties and the Beatles in the sixties. The venerable venue first made headlines after it opened as Hammerstein's Theater back in November 1927. Its grand title was bequeathed in honour of Oscar Hammerstein 1, whose opera-producing son Arthur was responsible for...
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Bytes From The Big Apple: Moving house is a moving experience
26th May 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
"A Moving Experience". Now there's a phrase that pays, and all the more so if you are going through the process of relocation.
For the past few weeks every waking hour has been devoted to packing, boxing and generally condensing my life's work into an army of crates stamped with that impassive instruction, 'This Way Up'.After spending fourteen fascinating years producing, writing and playing bass in Nashville, the hand of guidance...





