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Music

Radio Festival 2011

November 1, 2011

I hosted a session at the Radio Festival up in Manchester this afternoon. It was called ‘Chasing Status’ and the panel were Andy Roberts from Kiss FM, Matt Deegan from Folder Media and the Big Dawg TIM WESTWOOD. Yeah, that’s right, Westwood. We were talking about how to re-engage young people in the radio, or [...]

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How Hip Hop Changed The World

August 14, 2011

  Did you see How Hip Hop Changed The World on Channel 4 last Friday? It was brilliant. All the hip-hop legends were on it: DJ Kool Herc, Rakim, Nas, Snoop Dog, Sam Delaney. If you missed it, click here to watch it at 4 On Demand. Seriously, don’t let my involvement in it fool you: [...]

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Kids and music

August 11, 2011

I wrote this piece for a very nice new website called www.daddybegood.com It is about listening to music in the car with your kid. Reading that description back, sounds a bit boring. But it’s not. Especially if you are a dad – or even a mum. Are you a mum? You are? Wow, you’re sexy.

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Holiday Like A Rock Star!

May 23, 2011

  Here is a guide to holidaying like a rock star I wrote for The Guardian last week. Weirdly, they edited out my bit about Michael Hutchence.  

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Thing I done in The Independent

March 18, 2011

I wrote this piece for The Independent about mag fans who have scanned massive back catalogues of The Face, Melody Maker, Smash Hits and Select into their computers and posted them online. It’s only a shortish piece but researching it took ages because, trust me, once you start looking at these old mags you can’t [...]

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