Category Archives: nostalgia

Six Simple Synthesizers: a personal history of synth pop

Posted on May 18, 2012 by blogmywiki

This is not a definitive history of electronic music. This is a personal account of the electronic music that has punctuated my life and meant something to me. You can listen along to most of the music on this Spotify … Continue reading →

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Green Continuity

Posted on May 11, 2012 by blogmywiki

Green Con was where the main World Service English language network was put on air. The announcer sat on this side, and the Studio Manager sat on the other side of the glass on the right (now a TV studio) … Continue reading →

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Farewell to Bush

Posted on February 29, 2012 by blogmywiki

I had no idea this film was being made until today – Thomas Hannen and Owain Rich have made a beautiful sequence of images using some of the voices I and others recorded for the radio programmes John Tusa and … Continue reading →

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Circus Peanut Butter

Posted on November 6, 2011 by blogmywiki

I’ve been clearing out my locker at work and found many iced gems on reel-to-reel audio tape. Perhaps oddest of all was a reel of American advert jingles from the 60s and 70s that I have no memory of – … Continue reading →

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Ill of the dead

Posted on March 12, 2010 by blogmywiki

I was frantically searching for a long-lost piece of information last night, and I stumbled upon an old notebook. More than ten years ago I wrote this about a colleague, who has now shuffled off this mortal coil of quarter … Continue reading →

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