Category Archives: music

Thoughts on Attempting a “Review of the Year”

The Joy Collective is a rather splendid blog about music.
It tends to focus on Cardiff, Newport and Bristol, which makes a lot of sense because all three are close enough to share their gig-going crowds. Plus, truly, they are among the UK’s best cities for gigs.
Recently Will at The Joy Collective sent me some questions [...]

What’s the point of Twitter?

Google searches for “Twitter” over time, source: Google Trends
This graph shows the huge increase in searches for the word “Twitter” on Google. It could be said to roughly correspond to the service’s popularity and importance.
Or maybe, for some of the non-adopters, it signals their rising levels of scepticism and annoyance in constantly hearing about [...]

Discreet Disco

Here are two embedded videos.
They are identical.
I’ve posted them so you can play them both - simultaneously.

Have a play around with these identical videos. Experiment.
No rules, but some things to try: use the pause/play button to synchronise the videos as close as possible. To bring them closer, just delay the video that’s ahead by a [...]

Peace and Love, the Ringo way

Is it me or is this possibly the worst PR ever?

This clip has been broadcast today by TV and covered by loads of media - and counting.
It’s a great example of how NOT to communicate.
Whatever you think of Ringo Starr as a musician, he has worked hard over a span of five decades to build [...]

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Heniaith

The last year has been a bit of a language learning adventure for me. I was preparing a massive post but it’s rapidly expanding into several posts.
So I want to blog about the Welsh language, for these reasons:

I love it
I’m learning it
To offer my perspectives
Recording my thoughts for a year’s time

As I’ve just started this [...]