Bad News for the Edinburgh Music Scene – But Can The Forest Be Saved?
It’s a bit worrying when one organisation going bankrupt means the closure of three of Edinburgh’s music venues. This week sees the city wave goodbye to The Roxy Art House, where I’ve attended many great gigs both when The Bowery was based there, and this year, including the Charity Baw back in July, the GRV ...
Er, Maybe Print Isn’t Dead After All Then..
Last night I took part in my first ever debate. I was honoured to be asked to speak by the University of St Andrews Debating Society, in support of the motion that Print is Dead. Also supporting the proposition was Dr. Alistair Duff, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Information and Journalism and Edinburgh Napier University, ...
Video review of Amazon’s Kindle 3
Reviews of gadgets are actually pretty boring aren’t they? Whilst my Guide to the iPhone was pretty well received, I wasn’t really inspired to do a similar thing for the Kindle- there just wasn’t as much to say. But if you’re interested in the good and bad points of Amazon’s e-reader, this super-quick overview might ...
Is The Kindle Just for Women?
Amazon seem to be marketing their new Kindle (version 3) directly at women. In the US there have been two ads, one in which an iPad clutching fanboy is bested by a smug bikini clad beach babe: Then there is this one, again featuring a woman, who seems to be waiting for a frog to ...
Dirty-haired Debutante
Why I should care about what a bedraggled girl, with lank, dirty hair thought about me I don’t know. But I couldn’t resist her steely eyes, beautiful but dark and brooding like sassafras in the moonlight. And why did she like me? Well I may have been a disillusioned vegetarian after my last wife took off with the local ...
Gadgets for Gadgeys – which e-reader is best?
Urban Dictionary definitions for Gadgey: Non specific person in Scotland; ‘joe bloggs’. Often used to refer to workman, or random person in street/crowd. Another word for a ned in scotland. Derogatory Scottish term for someone who’s not so well-off. I’m obsessed with gadgets, and never more so than now, when I’m trying to stop myself ...
IHANW Podcast – Evil Stu talks about Latitude 2010
Of course a couple of years ago we had both Indian Summer and Connect to choose from for excellent festival line-ups in Scotland but they’re both gone now – and with T in the Park slipping further into the commercial shit-swamp, my pal Stu who writes the Tidal Wave of Indifference blog decided FECK IT ...
The Devil’s Buttermilk
Fresh from its success at the 2010 Aberdour Festival’s first ever ASBO Awards where it picked up the gong for ‘Best Directed Short’, the trailer for the modern horror classic The Devil’s Buttermilk is finally available to view on the world wide interweb! Now, for the first time, the full story behind this classic piece of ...
Holding Off
I’ve been holding off blogging. I’ve been holding off replying to your email. I’ve been holding off doing a podcast. I’ve been holding off doing a regular email newsletter. I’ve been holding off deciding whether to do a new fanzine. I’ve been holding off finishing my new EP. I’ve been holding off installing extra memory/hard ...
Overdue Update #1: Better Job & BBC 6Music appearance
So I don’t usually talk about work here but I will make a rare exception because yesterday was my last day working in the Media & Communications Division of the organisation I work for*, where I’ve worked for almost 3 and a half years, both as a Media Monitor and on the mysterious “News Planning” ...
