And so, yet again we’re less than two weeks a week about a day away from the start of the 2026 RPM Challenge, so – as ever – it’s way past time for me to write about last year’s challenge. And as usual, your annual reminder that the RPM Challenge is a challenge to record […]
Continue readingPink Floyd? Who??
It was Fathers Day here in the UK yesterday, and I just remembered something which happened while I was working in our local small independent record shop 20 years ago. The day before Fathers Day was one of the busiest days I’d seen in the shop (the busiest was Christmas Eve). It was full of […]
Continue readingRPM Challenge – Well That (Nearly) All Went Horribly Wrong!
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 […]
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