Category Archives: Music

November 27

Album launch – Sporadic Outbursts

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I’m pleased to announce that my new album, “Sporadic Outbursts” will be released on the 9th of December to all streaming services. I’ve put together a collection of ambient guitar studies. Originally released on this site under the Sporadic Outbursts heading, these are explorations that led to the creation of “Music Chamber” and “Live in […]

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May 15

ENGINEERS AS CREATIVE PARTNERS – HOW THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY CAN LEARN FROM MUSIC PRODUCTION

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A post I wrote for the National Film and Television School https://nfts.co.uk/news/engineers-creative-partners-–-how-film-tv-industry-can-learn-music-production NFTS Head of Technology, John Maxwell Hobbs, believes the film and television industry should view and work with engineers as creative partners as the music industry does and has designed the School’s new Production Technology MA to do just that. Why it is […]

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May 12

Blast from the past

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Years ago in New York City, I had a funk band called, Your Monkey’s Not Funny. At various times it was called, Calamity Jane, Magnetic Dog Sisters, Spiny Norman (and once Spiny Richard due to confusion on the part of the booker at CBGB.) Various members at times included Steffen Franz, David Azarch, Tom Hamilton, […]

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June 22

Just What Exactly is Apple Up To?

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Published earlier today on Medium There are a lot of articles analysing Apple’s new music service. (James Cridland’s got a good list of them here.) The majority of them are coming from tech journalists, and unfortunately, they suffer from a major lack of knowledge of how the music business actually works. They are worth reading, but […]

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February 15

The plot thickens – Apple launching a label?

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More news on the Apple music front – Radio 1 DJ, Zane Lowe is leaving the corporation to work for Apple. Jimmy Iovine, and now Zane. Apple’s lining up some heavyweight A&R talent.

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February 09

Apple Records?

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Rumours floating around that Apple is going to move into the label business, as I predicted a few months ago:  http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/08/exclusive-streaming/ Although the TechCrunch article shows a remarkable lack of understanding of how the music industry works and what exactly a record label does, the information at its heart leads to some interesting possibilities. More […]

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January 03

Live at Redmond’s

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I’ll be performing live at Redmond’s in Dennistoun to celebrate the launch of the album, “Live in Glasgow,” recorded last autumn at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow. I’ll be improvising on the same themes, but with a new guitar this time.  But don’t worry, the sparkly suit will still make an appearance.  The performance […]

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October 02

Performing Live in Glasgow

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Solo Ambient Guitar Performance at CCA Glasgow Tuesday the 21st of October , 7pm – 11pm £4 + £1 booking fee All ages Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD United Kingdom Tickets available through the CCA box office: http://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/542058977932e9a37600002d And Flights of Angels Sing Thee To Thy Rest is an extended duration performance of […]

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August 04

A Secret Rose

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The full multi-camera shoot of Rhys Chatham’s “A Secret Rose” for 100 electric guitars from the Frontiers Festival in Birmingham is now up on YouTube.  I’m in the back row, stage right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HC9o0DaNow#t=1043

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May 29

And the beat goes on . . .

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It seems clear now that the headphones and the streaming music service are secondary acquisitions for Apple – with the Beats deal, they’ve just acquired the head of Interscope records. I would expect an announcement of an Apple record label fairly soon.

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