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Let's stop saying 'let's'.  It's a Cameronism that is way past it's sell-by date, along with 'going forward'...

 

 

It was so boiling yesterday that it was tempting to stay home in the cool of the kitchen but Palmolive had asked me if I was going, and beca...

Last night, for a reason that shall remain private, I was thinking about how it feels when, as an adult, your parents die. Both of my (our) ...

 

 

I'm in a state of weird vacuum after sending off the album tracks yesterday. They have winged their way to Valencia in Spain, which I un...

 

I have literally spent days twiddling with the mixes, sorting glitches, dodging around Logic Audio's attempts to scupper tracks by losin...

  Temple of Ideas is an event run on Saturday afternoons on Hampstead Heath by Meg Lee Chin, and it's basically an open mic for over-55 ...

 

A builder is downstairs, building.  I am upstairs, painting puppets for the sleeve of my forthcoming album. I have averted disasters: not pu...

KISMIF ('Keep It Simple, Make It Fast') is a hybrid conference of DIY theory and practice that celebrated its tenth birthday this ye...

I've been in Porto, running a songwriting session at the KISMIF Summer school and later, chairing a fascinating panel. More tomorrow.