March 15th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Apple, Music, Web/Tech
Spotify is a new piece of software (well relatively new anyway) which you can download to your PC or Mac and then listen to as much music as you want – for free. It’s advertising supported, so unless you sign up for the premium account, you’ll be hearing an ad every four or five tracks [...]
March 15th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Belfast, Film / TV, Music, Work
Last week (bear with me, catching up!) I helped out at Do You Remember The First Time? A gig organised by Belfast City Council and broadcast live by ATL and recorded for TV (being broadcast this Tuesday, details at the end of the post).
The gig was held to celebrate the re-opening of the Ulster Hall [...]
January 12th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Music
I meant to blog about this ages ago, but am only getting round to it now – check out this mash-up of Billboard Magazine’s top 25 songs of 2008. It’s obviously got a US flavour to it, but there are some UK artists in there, like Coldplay, Leona Lewis and Natasha Bedingfield.
You can download the [...]
December 9th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Shopping, Web/Tech
Ok so I’m a bit behind with this because it happened last week, but Amazon have started selling music downloads – at a discount to iTunes. At the moment, as what I can only presume is a loss-leader to get people to try the service, they’re offering some brand new albums for only £3 – [...]
November 13th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music
Get up on the Dance Floor by George Sampson, out on Nov 24th.
October 19th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music
Obviously bought without a second thought…..
September 12th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music
I flipping LOVE this song. It’s quite rightly going to be number one this weekend.
July 30th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Music, Work
Taking a bit of a break from getting Northern Exposure ready for TX every week, I joined me old mucker Feargal and the ATL / ATL TV crew (I’m not producing this series) for a trip down to the Glasgowbury festival near Draperstown on Saturday.
Glasgowbury is a small, growing festival – their slogan is “small [...]
July 13th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music
Best lyrics of the year go to Scouting For Girls with Heartbeat….
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
Give me an evening, or give me a night.
I’ll show you the time, of your life.
I’ll walk you home safe, from the dark.
I’ll give you my jacket, I’ll give you my heart.
But she won’t come dancing [...]
March 26th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Technology
Remember the mixtape? Hours spent crafting a cassette with tunes from the radio for a mate or girlfriend back in the days? Well new technology means the mixtape ain’t necessarily dead.
There’s the USB version – pictured above – which is pretty neat, and which allows you to hand a cassette-shaped mix over to someone you [...]
