As we recover from Christmas myths and find ourselves careering towards the reality of January, it seems like not much has changed since last year. The tragedy of the Australian fires and the toll on people, communities, whole towns destroyed and the desecration of wild life. The climate crisis seems to be melting its truth on everyone except those in power. Trump is up to his old tricks, war with Iran a possibility, the downing of commercial airlines, the murder of the innocents. Hong Kong still in turmoil, knife crime […]
Fridays For Future Protest March – Berlin, September 20th 2019
Saving the world was high on the agenda today. On the streets of Berlin alone there were 300,000 people. Can the climate protests put enough pressure on the world leaders to stop polluting? Do governments really doubt that climate change is real or is it simply “an inconvenient truth” that threatens the established way the world’s industries operate? It’s hard to believe that Al Gore’s film was released in 2006, Greta Thunberg was three years old, fourteen years later here we are. If it takes years for people to act […]
A Philosophical Musing About Artistic Pursuit In A Commercial Universe
It seemed like such a great idea and for a while it was, but at some point the pigs started walking on their hind legs. Using Animal Farm as a metaphor for the collapse of PledgeMusic might not be a perfect way to explain what happened for countless reasons, notwithstanding the perfect allegory that the book already is, but there are parallels. That is, if you unfussily consider the farm to be the big bad music biz and the musicians to be the exploited animals. And as many execs might […]
O’ Stockholm
The lakes are frozen, skaters overtake the stumbling walkers. Around the shoreline the arms of the trees are decorated with white wings. To venture off the path surrounding the lake is to wade knee deep in a soft grip that is both warm and cold, sinking into the landscape like a crippled ship. The sky flakes busy themselves around the street-lamps, swarming like blind moths, a million floating unique crystals. Stationery, to contemplate this unprecedented deluge, looking back into the forest, the fairytale beauty is overwhelming perhaps exaggerated by the […]
January Roadtrip
One day in Germany turned into one night in both Luxembourg and the Roman town of Trier. Having left England Wednesday for Cologne, a trip that had us almost miss our plane if it hadn’t been for the quick wits of the inimitable Boy D at the wheel and whilst in the air the snow fell so heavily that we were almost redirected to Munich, finally landing, one of the last to do so before cancellations of take-offs and many stranded passengers. An hour on the runway whilst waiting for […]