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⤳ In the middle of the week, we schlepped up to Camden, to the Roundhouse to see Brett Anderson and the Paraorchestra do their Death Songbook show. It was a really good show, very different from your normal gig, in a low key and beautiful way. Her...

⤳ This week was all about seeing friends in pubs, bars and restaurants. ⤳ But before that kicked off, I went to the National Gallery to see The Last Caravaggio. It’s free and definitely worth a look if you’re passing (wow, I just damned Caravaggi...

⤳ Finally got see Dune 2 on the big screen, just before it left the cinema. It’s an impressive spectacle, and it didn’t feel as long as its 2h 47m (!) running time; but I don’t think I was as blown away as others have bene. Something about the sci...

⤳ Just a quick roundup because I skipped a few weeks (mainly because I was on holiday over a couple of weekends, but other things happened too). ⤳ Part of Nina’s birthday present was a trip to the Barbican to see Death of Stalin In Concert! It’s...

⤳ It was a busy work week this week, all sorts of things were kicking off at Brink (you can read about them in this LinkedIn post) and the work I’m doing around the company’s comms is starting to really gain momentum now. All that planning and str...

⤳ I did even more record shopping this week. Met up with my friend, John in Hackney to visit Stranger Than Paradise, YoYo Records, BBE, World of Echo and Idle Moments (and some stall on Broadway Market). I picked up some Arthur Russell, the latest...

⤳ Highlight of the week was convincing my friend Matt (owner of the amazing When Spaceships Appear record shop) to come down to South East London for a spot of record shopping, a few pints and a pizza. Along the way we stopped in at the Book and R...

Last week, Nina and I flew off to Antigua for a week. Bit of a luxury, but it was Nina’s birthday and she really needed a ‘do nothing but sit on a beach’ holiday. I struggle a bit with those kind of holidays because I tend to go a bit stir crazy a...

There is something really interesting and insightful in the latest issue of Alex Morris’s Strat Scraps newsletter (there is something interesting and insightful in pretty much every issue, so you should subscribe if you ever have to ‘do strategy’)...

I’ve just finished Cory Doctorow’s latest book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. I’ll talk more about the book in a future post, but something I wanted to get down right away was a couple of things in the book that I guess c...

“Writing for an audience keeps me honest.” So said Cory Doctorow in his 2021 blog post, The Memex Method. Here’s a bit more context: “The genius of the blog was not in the notetaking, it was in the publishing. The act of making your logfile ...

Just a quick admin update to say that: The page which archives all the Cracking Flags shows from loose.fm has been updated. It used to contain embeds from Mixcloud, but they all seem to have disappeared from loose.fm’s Mixcloud page, so I’m us...