Hot and Coldplay / July 1 2008
‘Davy!’ Reg was shouting at me from the other side of the street. ‘Are you deaf? Davy!’ I crossed the busy thoroughfare and greeted him. ‘Love the podcasts, mate.’ He told me, smiling one of his big smiles.
Arch joker Reg is about sixty; He is very tall – nearly seven feet – and rather self-conscious […]
Hopes and Fears / June 29 2008
There was a loud party going on in a house on the other side of he rec’ last night.
With the aid of the Leica 8×20 binoculars pointed through the studio window, Audrey and I watched about twenty intoxicated people as they shouted at the moon, at each other and at the world in general, seemingly […]
Grace and Beauty / June 25 2008
Nelson has gone back to London today and I have just had a quick listen to the drunken podcast we recorded on Sunday.
When I’m intoxicated, my singing tends to sound like a ewe’s mating call and I feel as if I’m struggling with the brain of a citrus beverage, but nelson is always in fine […]
Episode 9 / June 23 2008
The penultimate episode of this season of the Big Arena Podcast is now up.
I’m playing Finders Keepers, a song that became slightly infamous around here a few years ago due to its chilling subject matter – kidnap and murder in general, and Michael Sams in particular, the hated rapist who was jailed for life in […]
Episode 8 / June 13 2008
We are nearly at the end of the first season of the Big Arena Records Podcast. There are only two more to go after this week - the last and tenth one will be online in a fortnight marking the official release of Electric Baby Grand – and I must say that I will […]
Episode 7 / June 6 2008
Episode 7 of the Big Arena Records podcast is now on line. This week, the song I’m playing is Believe Her - another track from Electric Baby Grand.
I love this song. It’s a very simple and uncomplicated little tune, the like of which I am prone to produce now and again when I’m in the […]
Episode 6 / June 1 2008
Sorry for the delay; we’ve been having server problems. I thought I’d broken the Internet at one point but all is well now.
The next episode of my weekly podcasts for Big Arena Records is up – it’s something a little different this week.
Did I pass the audition?
Episode 5 / May 24 2008
‘Another beautifully crafted bundle of acoustic joy,’ - that’s what Ashley Morgan says over on the Big Arena Records website about my fifth podcast in this lead up to the release of the Enormous album Electric Baby Grand.
I’m flattered, and I’m certainly not going to argue with a man of such discerning taste.
This week, […]
Morning Has Broken Again / May 21 2008
Audrey and I passed a group of schoolgirls this morning who were arguing about who was better, the Spice Girls or the Pussycat Dolls.
They were competing with each other, playing scratchy, little mp3s of either artist on their mobile phones – a quiet but intensely annoying, high-pitched cacophony. It spoilt what was up till then […]
Episode 4 / May 16 2008
I forgot to mention yesterday the new Big Arena Records podcast that features yours truly. So I’m doing it now – get yourselves over there and have a listen to episode 4.
And to the thousands of you that already have, I offer my deepest gratitude. It’s nice to have such a large audience.
Remember, I do […]
