February 28th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Music, Travel, Work
I am going to South by Southwest in Austin, TX the week after next to film for a week for ATL TV, following bands from Northern Ireland as they do their thing out there. It’s basically the biggest music industry showcasing event / conference in the world! I am extremely excited, ‘cos it’s meant to [...]
February 14th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Work
ATL TV’s presenter Rigsy Photo: © BBC
So, the show I’ve been working on all this year, ATL TV, launches on Monday night on BBC Two Northern Ireland. It’ll also be available on the iPlayer, so you can check it out there after Monday. I’ve enjoyed working on it, but due to a couple of issues, [...]
December 9th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Music
I have been listening to this several times today. It’s good, and you can get it for free!
There are a whole load of other remixes of the song (originally performed at Eurovision this year) here.
July 18th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Music
Sean Kingston is a 17 year old from Miami who’s ‘Jamaica-bred’. I think that means he grew up there. Anyway, this has started getting some airplay on Radio 1, but it’s not out here until September. I quite like it, and I can imagine it will be going round and round my head in a [...]
July 15th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Music
There are a lot of songs I don’t like because they give me the creeps. I heard one on the radio this week so I thought I would make a list of my all time top three creepy songs that I really hate.
Vienna by Ultravox
Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
The Days of Pearly Spencer by [...]
July 5th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Music
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Well since my birthday anyway.
July 4th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Music
Vanessa Paradis. Absolutely gorgeous and French to boot. I have fancied her for as long as I can remember, but she seems to have a thing for that Johnny Depp dude. Anyway. Apart from being good looking, she isn’t a bad singer. “Be My Baby” is one of my favourite songs of all time.
After a [...]
June 5th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Internet, Music, Web/Tech
I would have thought that I had pretty mainstream music tastes, but not according to this tool - I’m only 14.68% mainstream which is WAY cooler than like being 80% mainstream or something. It works using Last.fm which I’ve found to be a bit flakey in taking music submissions recently, but I’m hoping they’ll sort [...]
May 13th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Music
Did you watch Eurovision last night? I didn’t really as I was completely knackered after getting back from London. And I fancied Law and Order instead. I did however skim through it on my Tivo.
Russia’s act was called Serebro, and their lead singer is totally hot. That’s her in the middle of the pic above. [...]
May 7th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Mac, Music, iTunes
Magnetosphere is a cool visualiser for iTunes - one of those little display things that reacts to your music when you turn it on from the View menu.
It’s free, and available here for Macs and Windows.
Via One Digital Life.
