Podcast: Producing virtual reality
Virtual reality on the podcast this time. Davy Sims talks to three people creating a VR and an immersive media industry in Northern Ireland. Dee...
Greece
My hyper-superficial imaginary music tour of the Med. continues. We are in Greece this time....
Podcast: Stuart Bailie – Trouble Songs
Music journalist Stuart Bailie’s new book Trouble Songs will be officially published in May, but it’s already starting to stir conversations and commentary. He takes...
Podcast: Oh Yeah music centre
On this episode the story of the Oh Yeah music centre with Charlotte Dryden and Paul Kane. There's music from Hand Models, Reevah, Strange New...
Women in Tech
In this edition, women who work in tech, three leaders who were involved with the Women Techmakers summit which was held in Belfast last weekend. ...
Maxine Mawhinney’s “The Moment” and Gareth Quinn of Digital DNA
Innovations and new ventures in this episode of the podcast (with the really clever name). From TV to YouTube and celebrating collaboration with Digital DNA...
Funding creativity – from guitar strings to global exports
How do you fund creativity? If you are planning to make a business from your passion? Creativity and innovation needs support, funding and professional advice....
5 books I’m reading now (or about to read)
The Woman in the Woods John Connolly, Three Daughters of Eve - Elif Shafak, Uncommon Type – Tom Hanks, The Anonymous Venetian – Donna Leon,...
Podcast: Episode 5 – Matthew Scott Founder and CEO of Navada Group
Matthew Scott is the CEO of Navada Group. Navada HQ is in Newcastle Upon Tyne, but it has a presence in Belfast, London, New York...
Podcast: Episode 4 – Technology bringing real people together in real spaces
We have two interviews. Victoria McCallum is one of the organisers of Women Techmakers Belfast - the event is to be held on 14 April...
Podcast: Episode 3 – Deepa Mann-Kler artist and VR developer
Deepa talks about her journey from being a teenage photographer, studying social policy at the LSE in London, moving to Belfast to work as an...
Peter McVerry of U105 and John Rosborough talk local radio
With an investment estimated to be over £1million from its new owner the Wireless Group, Belfast radio station U105 has moved to new offices and...
Podcast: Episode 1 Pop Up’s Ross Moffett, Sonja Sleator and Chase the River’s Stuart Lunn
My new podcast finds people who are involved Creativity, Tech, Media, Innovation, Investment. The two key words are creativity and innovation. The first episode is about...
Returning to Podcasting
After much thought and deliberation (i.e. dithering) I have decided to revive my tech and media podcast - and extending it to music. Testing for...
A Firsthand Guide to Bled Slovenia
The 2018 editions of Firsthand Guide to Bled, Slovenia are now available in both paperback and Kindle format. The Shorter Edition has the basic information...
Albania
The search continues. Undeterred by almost total failure to find music worth listening to in Montenegro we cross the border into what was post 1945...
New podcast coming soon
Starting at the beginning of March, I will be launching my new podcast. I will be talking about Technology, media, innovation, creativity and investment. Whatever...
Montenegro
Gentle reader, I have failed. Aside from some rather cheesy (to my ears/eyes, anyway) “folk” videos and a few Eurovision entries, I can find no music...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
It is more than a month since my last post. It is more than seasonal torpidity that has kept me back. But it is largely....
Seasonal torpidity
The point of this blog in recent months has been to track my imaginary journey around the Mediterranean. Having “travelled” from Gibraltar to Bosnia...
Croatia
After several days searching, I thought was going to get nowhere with Croatia. This tour began as an exploration of the coasts of the countries...
Digital – Archive, Analogue – Decoration. Is a paperback analogue or is it just a thing?
The convenience: at one time I owned more than 5,000 of those vinyl albums. At one time or another the total, 10,000 would be a...
The books so far
I started with great enthusiasm and energy finding and reading books to accompany me on the make-believe meander around the Med. When I reached Slovenia,...
Slovenia
So far … so good, but time to review the rules. To this point, the Mediterranean make-believe expedition has concentrated on coastal towns and...
Best Albums #1 – Gibralter to Trieste
Time for a breather and look back on the last few months’ music collecting. We started our journey in Gibralter, and I am pausing...
All the way to Venice (and Trieste)
Almost the last part of the of the Italian leg (sorry!) of this imaginary Mediterranean journey. Leaving Apulia and moving north, the plan now is to...
Reading
With life being a little less busy and enjoying the imaginary Meditteranean project, I’m getting more time to read. Project Med inspired me to...
Italy – Toe to heal
To the deep south of Italy to discover some of the most exciting and invigorating music that I have heard for years, all the more...
Western Italy – Rome, Florence and Naples
Finding music and literature from Rome, Naples and Florence on an imaginary journey around the Meditteranean....
Eventually, Southern Italy, but not just now
It's always the same. When I get excited about music I want to share it immediately. Even though, on this invented trip around the Med.,...