So That Was 2010 Then – The Products of a Gaseous Brain Annual Review
Zinester The year got off to a strong start off the back of my pledge in December to ‘get my shit together’ in 100 days with the release of my first ever fanzine, something I’ve been meaning to do for years. The initial idea was to do a quarterly zine but that was a bit ambitious, ...
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” ...
Sorry To Disappoint You
I’ve disappointed a lot of people lately. It seems to have become a bit of a pattern. Sorry for disappointing some of you by giving up writing my monthly column, music reviews and other things for The Skinny Magazine. Sorry for disappointing promoters and artists by not coming along to your gig or promoting it ...
Home and Dry from Homegame
Phew. That was a busy week, in which blogging just hasn’t been near the top of my list of priorities, so sorry about the lack of posts recently. As well as doing some decorating (yawn), I went to see Grizzly Bear/Beach House (which was an excellent excellent gig – see Evil Stu’s review for more ...
#100 Days to Get My Shit Together – Day 100
100 years might have been a more realistic target. Yes, 100 days ago I pledged to get my shit together. I then wrote a humungous and long-winded week 1 update in which I said I would keep a journal each day to monitor my progress. And then.. silence. So what happened? Well I didn’t keep ...
Swivel Chair: Beautiful Losers?
At least that’s what Nude Magazine thought, who printed this brief version of my ‘I Was a Swivel Chair’ story: Name: Swivel Chair. Town: Edinburgh, Scotland. Years: 1999-2004 Influences: KLF, Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division. Career Highlight: Our third triumphantly drunken gig.. Lowpoint: Our fourth disastrously drunken gig. Line Up: Craig Low (bass, samples) Milo ...
A (Not So) Brief History of My Creative Efforts – Recap
Seeing as I’ve not had a chance to properly research a ‘Gaseous Brainstorm’ post this week, and am off to Aberdeen for a stag weekend tomorrow morning (weather and liver permitting) I thought I’d delve back into the archives. Those of you who’ve been reading a while and have particularly good memories might remember I ...
The Best of 2009 on Products of a Gaseous Brain
Whew! Quite an eventful year. I’m not going to try and provide an exhaustive summary of world events here, instead I thought it would be a good opportunity to give a brief rundown of my favourite posts of 2009 on this blog, whilst also including those events that were most important to me personally. Whilst ...
100 Days to Get My Shit Together – Week 1 Update
I thought it was about time I updated you on how I’m progressing with Getting My Shit Together. After I made the pledge on Monday, Fabian from the Friendly Anarchist rightly called me out for being obtuse about what I was actually going to be doing each day, so on day 1 I decided to ...