I started last year with “I’m not going to bother speaking at conferences this year” and ended up speaking at 4… I switched up my attitude because Josh invited me to speak at the legendary All Day Hey! in Leeds. I couldn’t refuse speaking there—especially in my home city (I’m from Bradford but spent way […]
My 2022 Last.fm year in music dropped on New Year’s day and I’ve finally gotten around to giving it a look today. I made a conscious effort to scrobble more last year, hooking it up with Spotify, Mac and using Open Scrobbler to scrobble vinyl listening. It’s made a big difference because my scrobbles were […]
I was very harsh on myself in last year’s review. I think it was because I published it almost immediately after finishing work, whereas this year, I’m now almost two weeks into a nice, long break. It was useful to be harsh to myself last year, though, because I’ve approached 2022 with a much healthier, […]
2022 has been a damn good year for good new album releases, so I thought I’d recommend my top 5 for you. 5. Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022), by Fred again… Bloody hell this album is good. I’d never heard of Fred again… and stumbled upon a video of him playing […]