Taking the myth out of Dexys Midnight Runners (part two) - the really difficult third album

When we visited studios to choose where to record the third album we rated them according to the biscuits they gave us.

I can’t remember what biscuits we were given at Mountain studios in Montreux, Switzerland but I’m assuming they were pretty good as that’s where we went.  The biscuits and the live room were pretty [...]

Pandora, Last.fm, Spotify, Grooveshark the list goes on...

I was really pleased to hear that one of the many new partners with Facebook Open Graph was Pandora so I went back to take a look for the first time in ages.  And got this apology from Pandora.  The service wasn’t originally available in the UK, then it was for a time and now [...]

My hearing is rubbish

That’s not a technical term used by audiologists funnily enough but it’s a fact. Added to which it’s quite frustrating to realise that it’s largely self inflicted.

Like most young kids I didn’t give my hearing a great deal of thought as I was growing up. I loved music, particularly LOUD music and when I played [...]