Rants
Who’s in charge here anyway?
“Underpinning much of the software-led control is AI, or machine learning.”
Read MoreWHAT CAN I RELY ON? WHO CAN I RELY ON?
Buy equipment that you know will be solidly up for what you have planned for it. Cheap crap will give you a crap outcome.
Read MoreListen Here: Portrait of the artist as a ROBOT
The food industry has its junk food, the music industry its junk music
Read MoreNATURE – The Ultimate Disruptor
The sound of 60+ tonnes of timber hitting the ground mere metres away is impressive. We are most definitely awake.
Read MoreLiving Without Regret
It is far better to regret something that didn’t work out as expected, than regret never having attempted it in the first place.
Read MoreWhy I like the live entertainment biz
Rarely do other jobs offer such a reliable endorphin surge as you get when it’s showtime.
Read MoreWhen things go pear shaped
What do you do when the project you’re working on just refuses to come together?
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Fifty Ways To Lose Your Agent
My first band gig was with a 17-year-old bass player who refused to wear shoes, and a stand-in drummer who’d drank half a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and took a loaded weapon into the venue.
Read MoreListen Here: Omicron Versus The Omnichord
With the name of the recent Covid variant being so close in name to one of the instruments I’m playing at gigs, I may be banned from the stage regardless! “I’m playing Omnichord, you idiots; I don’t have Omicron!”
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Puttin’ on the Glitz
To some, it might have been as much fun as a funnel web spider, but for me it was a fitting finale to go out amidst the glitz, glamour and complexity of cabaret in the Starlight Room at Wenty Leagues
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Castaway with karaoke
I hadn’t even heard of karaoke when I made the tragic mistake of abandoning my hard fought one-man-band agency gigs to do a residency in the Whitsunday Islands on the now commercially abandoned Brampton Island
Read MoreListen Here: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It
Andy Stewart deatils his journey to upgrade his studio computer from Mac to The Dark Side: PC. “While the switch might seem brave, or even foolhardy beforehand, in truth it’s an economically rational, technically superior choice that you won’t regret.”
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