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)
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