So… as the RPM Challenge starts tomorrow, I thought it might be a good idea to set up my keyboard today and check that everything still works. To set the scene, there is a coffee table to the left of my desk, under the window, which is where the keyboard normally sits. It uses a […]
Continue readingIt’s… Another Album! RPM Challenge 2024
As we move through the final week of January 2025, and February fast approaches, I realise that once again I seem to have left it to the last minute to blog about last year’s RPM Challenge before I start this years challenge in just a couple of days! And, as ever, your annual reminder that […]
Continue readingAnother Year, Another Album! RPM Challenge 2023
Once again it is only a couple of weeks, less than a week, a day until the start of this year’s RPM Challenge, so it’s time for me to once again write a long-overdue blog post about last year’s recording… As ever, your regular reminder that the RPM Challenge is a challenge to record an […]
Continue readingI Love The NHS
Today is the 75th anniversary of the NHS, and I thought I would recount one of my more extreme experiences with it. I’ve been meaning to type this up for quite some time. Some years ago, I woke up and I had the most incredible pain in my chest. Taking more than about half a […]
Continue readingWhy, Yes! I Made Another Album… RPM Challenge 2022
Once again I find myself just a week away a couple of days away from the start of this year’s RPM Challenge and realised I should write a post about recording last year’s album. First, the annual reminder that the RPM Challenge is to record an album of original music during the month of February […]
Continue readingFormula One’s Sprint Qualifying – Some Thoughts…
Formula One have announced that there will be six sprint qualifying sessions in the 2023 season. What is the sprint? It is a concept that was introduced by F1 to some race weekends in 2021. Variously referred to as a Sprint Race by some (“Definitely not a race!”, said F1), as Sprint Qualifying by others […]
Continue readingSo, I Recorded Some More Music In 2021…
Not only did I record a new album in 2021 (during February, for the RPM Challenge), later in the year I also recorded what I can only really describe as a single (as in, it was only one track, and it wasn’t 35 minutes long!) This came about when Spitfire Audio announced a competition to […]
Continue readingTo Mars! (Musically Speaking)… RPM Challenge 2021
So, with about a week to go before the start of this year’s RPM Challenge, it’s about time I posted something about last year’s recording. First, an apology… I started writing this post months ago, but then I got side-tracked by any number of shiny things and, well, here we are… Earlier last year, as […]
Continue readingThank You, Sir Clive
Yesterday (Thursday 16th September 2021), I was sad to learn that Clive Sinclair has died. When I was younger (back in the early 1980s), I had a passing interest in electronics. My dad (a telephone engineer) taught me to solder. I built a few kits. I could understand simple circuit diagrams. It never went very […]
Continue readingIt’s Another Album! RPM 2020
Once again, I find myself only a day away from starting a new RPM Challenge album, so it is once more time (long overdue, as ever) to write about the last album. And also, your annual reminder that the RPM Challenge is to record an album of original music entirely in the month of February. […]
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