…Share our favourite jazz album! Well, Wayne’s fave jazz album is my fave album of all time. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew. In last month’s Uncut magazine, Wayne does the ‘my life in music’ section where artists talk about the tunes that shape their lives. And it’s satisfying to see him choose this and describe it similar to how I do.
“Whenever I want to hear music that’s just a strange cacophony of sometimes melodic stuff, sometimes abstract stuff, i listen to that.”
I have it as my all time fave album not because of any personal relating to me lyrics or emotional chord structures – all the usual stuff I like music for – but for the complete whacked out trip I get by listening to it. It’s like real alien music – like nothing else I know – It makes me uncomfortable because it takes me places I don’t know, and that’s scary. No other music does this to me. It’s kaleidoscopic, fractured yet all together at the same time. If you haven’t heard it and you have an hour to yourself – put your headphones on and prepare for a journey to somewhere you never knew existed.
For a fair few months now, my wife has had her heart on having a few chooks for the garden. Well, now it’s happened so let me please introduce to you, the latest additions to the family. Hilda (black) and Gladys (red). Sure to be the subject of much snapping in the coming months!
Something really endearing about the I phone. I love the way some apps really appeal. Currently trying out the hipstamatic app which basically does lo fi camera shots with a range of lenses and films. Pretty nifty.
So much going on, I need a better system to organise myself. Anyhows, We Share Stuff is really gaining momentum now, or at least if feels like it is. We got funding from Becta to develop a peer to peer mentoring service. It’s called Five Minute Mentors and we’re in the throws of development and explaining it to orgs ready for testing. Also, we ended up putting in two ideas for the Jailbrake competition, one of which won through! so we’ll be going down to London for a weekend to see if we can create some prototype and push it forward. Other stuff includes some potential partnership work to deliver accredited Digital Mentoring for Social Enterprises and other orgs, a couple of funding bids for young peoples projects.
On a personal level, there doesn’t seem to be as much time as I really want. I got round to installing a network drive to host all my music and photos. The boy amazes day after day and it’s great that the nights / morns are getting longer now.
Around March 2008 I tried to get the ‘blog club’ going. The idea was to get a local online community up and running via blogging. I ran a four week thing and got a little interest but it was the blog club that inspired me onto We Share Stuff.
A few years back I was somewhat involved with a great bunch of noise freaks. We went by the name of da.nu.lo. We did various music noodlings over the years, even got ourselves involved with The Matrix soundtrack, which was all very exciting. Well i’ve started to archive the music from over the years and pop it onto Bandcamp. It’s all free to download – we’re even considering a comeback of sorts. First up was one of the later EPs we did, Gardensuite. Let us know what you think in the comments.
