British Sea Power
Shepherd's Bush Empire, 17 April 2013 I first stumbled across British Sea Power at the Reading Festival when on a 20 minute break from working behind…
Spring has sprung
British Sea Power provided the soundtrack to the weekend, with ‘Spring Has Sprung’ proving the perfect accompaniment to the first t-shirt-weather day of the year. It got its first play while I woke the off-road bikes from their winter slumber, and the joyous refrain “birdsong sings in the atmosphere; spring has sprung out of nothing” kept popping back into my head throughout the day as Liz and I followed the River Lea from our home in Walthamstow down to the Thames at Limehouse.
Jarvis and Attenborough in radio heaven
What a day Sunday was on Radio 6 (6Music if you must), but Jarvis Cocker stole the show with his two hour chat on music and nature with David Attenborough.
Everything a river should be
Travelling back from a ridiculously short work trip to Monterrey I have been thinking about rivers. A conjunction of three events has put waterways in my…
Edinburgh Science Festival
I write this in between gazing out of the window at the beautiful north east coast of England as my train wends its way back to…
Public Service Broadcasting
I’ve been in the Lake District this weekend to see Public Service Broadcasting, the band/art project that makes music to archive newsreels. Taking inspiration from founding…
Launch of the Global Oceans Commission
Tuesday saw the launch of the Global Ocean Commission, which I had the privilege to attend at the Commonwealth Club on London’s Embankment. Commission co-chair, and…
New York – in praise of oysters big and small
Alongside generous hand-outs from native Americans, the first European settlers to cross the Atlantic largely survived off the plentiful supplies of oysters that lined the coast…
A night in the cells and a ping-pong dinner
This week’s travels have been full of surprises: not only did a visit to a snowbound Amsterdam result in two nights in the cells but, after…
Stow in the Snow
The first London snow of 2013 fell on a school day and so escaped recording, but here’s a look back on the first day of E17…
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