Sept 2016 Radio show with Adrian Flanagan from Moonlandingz

So I've been sitting in monthly on SheffieldLive.org to present a radio show. It's only 1 hour monthly, but it's been interesting!

In October 2016 I was joined by Adrian Flanagan, member of The Eccentronic Research council and real member of imaginary band The Moonlandingz, alongside Lias Saudi from Fat White Family and fantastic guests such as Yoko Ono, Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Slow Club) and Phil Oakey (Human League). (If you look closely at their video for Black Hanz, yours truly is playing rabbit.)

It was an interesting show, if a little dogged by technical difficulties hence the microphone levels & I seem to remember I was having to work around a headphone cable stretched awkwardly across me so that Adrian could hear things ... anyway here it is..

It's been a long time since I posted here. When I originally started this, it was to create some kind of archive for music of interest and of no particular genre, only that it was stuff I was into and thought worthy of highlighting.

It seems dated now, and a lot has changed with the internet and downloading, but I wasn't interested in being a blog that enabled you to 'steal' the albums from the artist. Rather one that did provide download links, but to rarer, hard-to-find things that might be supplementary to the reader having already supported the artist by buying the album.

I started the blog in April 2011, when I was 3 months into a 6 month course of chemotherapy for cancer. The previous October I'd had major surgery. So I was recovering, resting & rehabilitating, and not out of the woods.

I'm writing this in October 2017 and a lot of things have happened in the interim. Of relevance here are 2 things:

- Since the demise of the band I was previously in (Meat for a Dark Day) I have continued to work with Stephen Scott. In 2015 we began working with his published spoken-word work, this also culminated in work with Bafta-nominated film maker Annie Watson in several music/word/film pieces, one of which was shown at the ICA in January 2017

- Since 2015 I've presented a monthly show on local Station SheffieldLive.org. This is only 1 hour, and is broadcast at 5pm, but working with those constraints this has been good. I plan on adding the shows to my Mixcloud account & adding links up here.

- I've also mixed a solo record by Sheffield Artist and sometime James Yorkston & Alasdair Roberts collaborator James Green. More of that in a future post (it's released Nov 2017)