Creative Types #4: Peenko
For anyone who doesn’t already know, Peenko is a prominent Scottish music blogger (real name Lloyd) who is a very busy chap. You’ll find out all the stuff he’s involved in through the course of our conversation but the most timely one is the gig he’s putting on with fellow blogger Jim from Aye Tunes ...
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 ...
Creative Types #2: Dylan Matthews of Blueback Hotrod & Song, By Toad
The second in this series of interviews is with Edinburgh-based photographer and blogger and now radio DJ, Dylan Matthews. Dylan’s photos have been published by an impressive list of publications including BBC Online, The List, The Sunday Herald & The Skinny, and he is of course an integral part of the Song, By Toad team. ...
Gaseous Brainstorm: Is Blogging Just for Old Buggers?
The Kids: they’re laughing at us. Compared to when I was growing up and a crappy Gameboy or impossible to tune in b&w portable telly were the heights of the technology accessible to the average teen, kids these days “don’t know they’re born” with their infuriatingly flippant use of PS3s, iPhones and what-would-until-recently-have-been-considered-witchcraft wireless broadband. ...
Gaseous Brainstorm: What’s the Future of Publishing and How Will We Pay for It?
Michael Caine: photographer unknown Print newspapers, it seems, will soon be no more than a minority medium, and so owners of the big news brands are wondering just how they’re going to make money once their main outlet is via the internet – whether it’s accessed via a computer, a mobile device or one ...
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 ...
I Hear a New Gramophone – an interview with Sean Michaels
This is an interview from November’s issue of The Skinny Magazine which can also be found on their website here. It was loosely timed to coincide with the release of a wee bundle I’ve put together for www.tentracks.co.uk which will be available in late November – more info on that will be coming soon. The artwork ...
Blog Profile: 17 Seconds
It’s been a bit quiet on the music reviewing front round here recently, I admit it. For a blogger who reliably sticks to music and does it very well, I thoroughly recommend Ed Jupp’s 17 Seconds. He’s doing a series of reviews of classic albums at the moment entitled 33 and 1/3 and I particularly ...
The Public Have Voted – The Results Are In!
A massive thank you to everyone who voted in my poll yesterday and today. The replies were very interesting, and I will definitely be taking what you’ve said into account. Having said that, the results were so diverse that it suggests that people don’t come here for only one topic – and I ...
Help! What Do You Want From This Blog?
I’m a bit confused, in case you hadn’t already noticed – and I need to know what you want from this blog, please fill out the below form (RSS and email subscribers can click here) and let me know what you’d like to see here, I will be forever grateful and hopefully you’ll get some ...