Pete Cogle

May 22, 2009

Celebrating 2 years of dubs…

It’s two years since I started The Dub Zone" and so the latest episode #52, is a 2 hour, 27 track monster mix of the best dub from the last year… Irie!

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May 20, 2009

May 17, 2009

Great Escape 2009

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The Great Escape 2009

Just enjoyed another Great Escape festival down in Brighton, with my podcasting mate Grumbler. As usual we podcasted throughout and you can hear the results below….

Part 1 - Thursday 14th May [Download]

Battleships, by Baddies. Southend, England.
Austere, by The Joy Formidable. London, England/Clwyd, Wales.

Part 2 - Friday 15th May [Download]

People And Thieves, by Nelson. Paris, France.
Chat with Gareth and Adam at The Hope
Cecilia, by Thomas Dybdahl. Stavanger, Norway.
The Estury Boys, by Hoodlums. Southend, England.
White Zombie, by The Ultimate Power Duo. Saskatoon, Canada.
David Cassidy, by Betty And The Werewolves. London, England.
One Red Thread, by Blind Pilot. Portland, Oregon, USA.

Part 3 - Saturday 16th May [Download]

The Darkside Of The Blues, by The Alexandria Quartet. Bergen, Norway.
Interview with Betty And The Werevolves. The Hope, Brighton.
Euston Station, by Betty And The Werewolves. London, England.
Homesick, by The Boy Who Trapped The Sun. Stornoway, Lewis, Scotland.
Half Asleep, by The School Of Seven Bells.Brooklyn, new York, USA.
Don’t Take Me To Space (Man), by Brakes. Brighton, England.

Part 4 - Sunday 17th May [Download]

Twitter, by Skint and Demoralised. Wakefield, England.
Chain, by The School Of Seven Bells.Brooklyn, new York, USA.
Red Lipstick, by Skint and Demoralised. Wakefield, England.
Interview with Matt Abbott aka Skint and Demoralised. Komedia Studio, Brighton.
Matador_(Lull’s_Channel_Switch_Mix). by Sky Larkin. Leeds, England.

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April 20, 2009

Podcrawl #003

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A couple of silly moments from Podcrawl #003. More at http://podcrawl.blogspot.com/

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March 14, 2009

Ariel PR Interview!

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I was recently interviewed by Ariel Hyatt, from ArielPublicity.com, as part of the New Media Pioneer Series. Checkout the interview at http://arielpublicity.com

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March 3, 2009

Survey Request

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I’m conducting a survey about The Dub Zone Podcast. If you can, please help by completing 5 simple questions…. Click Here.

Many Thanks

Pete

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January 30, 2009

Internet Plumber 4 Hire!

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Internet Plumber 4 Hire!

I think I might start advertising myself as an Internet Plumber. Why, well all the mess Google have created whilst they’re changing and the RSS feeds that were managed by Feedburner is causing leaks and blockages all over the place. Google should know better than fix something that wasn’t broken and now they’ve forced feedburner users over to the new feeds. Perhaps they want to take over from Microsoft as the software bullies these days?

If you do have an RSS feed that seems to have a blockage in it’s (yahoo) pipe or you’ve got your hands covered in XML grease and do’t know that to do then feel free to drop me a line… codger@bodgit.com and I’ll get my wrench and see what I can do.

Reasonable rates, payable in beer!

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January 29, 2009

John Martyn dies at 60…

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Music Legend John Martyn has died at the age of 60. Too young to die, but he had a pretty “active” life. I first heard John’s “Spencer The Rover” on a 1973 Island sampler album and was hooked. Sad loss to the music world.

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Secred Blog and Podcast…

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Checkout Vince Millett and Guy Cross’s new blog about the music business over at http://secretarchivesofthevatican.wordpress.com/ and get involved in the discussions of how an artist should promote, distribute and sell their music in today’s world.

Also checkout the Secret Archives Podcast at http://vincemillett.libsyn.com, hear some of their latest tunes and some of their influences for their constantly evolving sound.

Also checkout their new album Remembering Machine, which will soon be available as a download only release. Tracks appearing in PCP and TDZ over the next few weeks..

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December 18, 2008

Still searching for the G-Spot?

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Fear not! The G-Spot has finally found, courtesey of the G-man, Mr Jeremy Gugenheim, and his new Blues podcast which has been launched here.

Of course you’ll want to subscribe to the podcast using RSS or iTunes.

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November 18, 2008

Oooh ever so bold!

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Codger and Grumbler come out of the closet!

A fine day was has by Messers Richard "Tricky" Doogan, Paul "Grumbler" Snelling and myself at the Bluebell Railway last Sunday. Involving lots of Steam and Beer. Checkout MUMU#39 for audio next Sunday!

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November 17, 2008

VU Live 2008

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Checkout the latest video of VU live in 2008 here

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October 28, 2008

I’m A PC

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So I saw my first "I’m a PC" advert on TV last night. Interesting to see that M$ have decided to fight back against the "I’m a PC, I’m A Mac" campaign with a degree of humour. Not bad, considering there was prescious little humour from the top when I was there.

Guess what? I’m a PC, and I’ve been a PC since the early 60’s, much longer than MS-DOS, Windows, OS/X, Linux or any other operating system. My first taste of computers was in 1979 with punch cards and ticker tape. Yep, I’m a Codger.

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September 19, 2008

Off to the great gig in the sky…

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The late, great, Rick Wright, of Pink Floyd

Wow! Just heard the sad news that Rick Wright, the legendary keyboard player of Pink Floyd, has died at the age of just 65. I, like many people, will have to play some of the Floyd collection this week by way of a tribute. I never saw the band live, but in 1973 I bought three albums that changed my life:

Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield, which inspired me to believe anyone can make music
Autobahm, by Kraftwerk, which, along with Tangerin dream, gave me a love for electronic music, and
Dark Side Of the Moon, by Pink Floyd.

Still great pieces of music, but Dark Side of the Moon is still the most amazing piece of music.

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September 18, 2008

Join me on Linked In

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I’ve been updating my LinkedIn profile, so if you want to be linked in to my network of professionals, associates, IT folk, podcasters, or just friends then pop over to LinkedIn and say hello.

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August 20, 2008

European Podcast Awards

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I’d not realized until today that a few of the AMP podcasters have been nominated for the European Podcast Awards. If you get the time, please consider voting for your favourite, or vote for them all……!

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July 9, 2008

This Modern Life?

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Saw this the other day and thought, yes, that’s me. Need a break from the laptop for a while………

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June 26, 2008

Never Mind the Balkans

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Been a great week for CD deliveries at Podcasting House. Received Max Pashm’s Never Mind The Balkans’s CD this morning and it’s bloody marvelous. Going to be fitting a track from this into podcasts soon, you luck, luck people…!

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June 23, 2008

Babylon Halt

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Got my copy of Secret Archives of the Vatican’s new album Babylon halt today, courtesey of Vince and Louis. Bloody marvelous. Tracks appearing in podcasts soon!

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Podcrawl 2

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Podcrawl 2

Yes, here we are again, during Podcrawl 2 on Friday 13th in London. L-R, Paul "Grumbler" Snelling, Pete "Codger" Cogle, Peter "The Kid" Clitheroe, Jeremy Gugenheim (the only non-podcaster, so far!!), Colin Gazely, Rowley Cutler.

Oh dear, dear, dear…..

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June 20, 2008

Jamendo’s 10,000 th album

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It was October 19th last year when I blogged about Jamendo hosting it’s 5,000th album. Well it’s almost exactly 8 months later and Jamendo have made it to 10,000 albums on the site, all available via creative commons. Now that’s worth celebrating.

Help spread the word by digging this story.

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June 6, 2008

New AMP site…

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So been an interesting week for me. In my spare time I’ve been crafting the new home of the Association of Music Podcasters. We’ve been thinking about doing this for some time, but our old site crashed a couple of weeks ago and we had to take immediate action. The new site is much more of a "Web 2.0" interface and we hope our podcast listeners will come and join us by registering on the new site.

Hope to see you there!

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May 14, 2008

Coglosaurus Brittannicus…

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One of my regular listeners, Jan., from Amsterdam, rather enjoys creating artwork and often sends me amusing images. This is the latest, which he emailed me with the comments:-

A couple of million years time, when future paleontologists dig you up, they will be in for a surprise. What a groovy set of bones!

Now I am reliably informed by my kids that "groovy" is no-longer a "hip" word. In fact, neither is "hip", "wicked" or "Daddy-O" (apparently), so what does that make Jan?

Keep sending in the piccies dude - loving it! Anyone else want to join in the fun, drop me a line at pete.cogle@gmail.com

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May 11, 2008

Getting ready to escape….

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Really starting to get excited about this year’s Great Escape Festival, after we had such a good time last year. Let’s hope the weather holds out as well. Here’s some of the possible acts we’d love to see…..

There’s even the possibility of Little Man Tate!

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May 10, 2008

Big In Japan…?

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Just spotted this as an incoming link from birdtune.jp, the label that has Kukudodo and Gumi on it. I’ve no idea what it says, but it’s always fun to find that someone has blogged something about you, when you least expected it.

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May 3, 2008

Harry Potter And The Pasta Bake…?

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Harry Potter And The Pasta Bake

Ever had one of those dreams where you wake up and you think "what was all that about?". Well last night was one of those, involving Harry Potter in my house (probably doubling up for Hogwarts), various gorey battles with deamons and (this is the strange part) a cheesy pasta bake. Now I know some of the stuff I cook is a bit scary sometimes, but does a cheesy pasta bake really conjour up a vision of danger for the wizzarding world?

I do think that old J.K. should come back with an eigth novel in the series. My personal preference would be "Harry Potter And The Mid-Life Crisis", in which Harry, now pushing 50 and a veritable couch potato, takes up strange new hobbies (such as podcasting), goes off to gigs and laments the loss of his hair. Now that’s a plot I can relate to!

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April 23, 2008

Mevio (that’s mee-vee-ooh)

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Seems that my podcast network has decided to drop the "pod" name and go for a completely new name, focusing on being an "entertainment network" rather than a "download company". Hear more from co-founder Ron Bloom below.

Do I like the name change? Well I guess having a show called “PC Podcast” was pretty unimaginative anyway, but that’s what it is. It’s not going to be some video experience, and I do like audio podcasts. Guess I’ll have to wait and see how the name change settles in.

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April 22, 2008

The Full Codger

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Thanks to the magic of Yahoo Pipes I can now offer you, dear listener, a more simple and convenient way to enjoy the podcasts that I create. You’ll see a link above called The Full Codger which gives you all the podcasts I create on my own, and in collaboration with others (such as AMPed or Made In The UK) in one simple RSS feed.

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April 19, 2008

You calling me a Lunt?

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Having just listened to the The Grumbler mention the poor villagers of the village of Lunt in Merseyside, and the vandalism that keeps changing their road sign, spare a thought for the villagers of Grabowiec in Poland, who really do live in a place called "Ulica Obi-Wana Kenobiego" (Obi-Wan Kenobi Street).

Makes you wonder if this really was the street they were looking for?

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Drop It Doe Eyes!

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If you look at the right hand side of the blogsite you’ll see a new feature called drop.io , which is a great idea I copied from Rowley Cutler over at Dark Compass.

If you’re an artist or a band and want to be considered for inclusion in the podcast then you can drop me an MP3 by clicking on the Add Files button and then clicking the Drop It! button when it appears.

It’s an easier way than email. Check it out below!

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April 17, 2008

Marketing Time!

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So, thanks to the Grumbler, I’ve finally got my act together and created some marketing materials for the podcasts. So here they are, a business card and a flyer which we both intend to distribute amongst the adoring throng of fans (ok, for the bands, not for us) at the Great Escape Festival.

There’s also some t-shirts as well, but I shall save the picture of that until Grumbler and myself are sporting the exotic apparel!

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eMusic Free Trial

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eMusic

Some of the artists I’ve featured on PC Podcast are available to download from eMusic. Why not sign up using the link www.emusic.com/pcpodcast and use your free 14 day trial to download some of these great artists:

	Blood Red Shoes		My Toys Like Me
Barry Adamson		British Sea Power
	Soko		Slow Club

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April 14, 2008

Getting away from it all…

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Spent a rather find day away from it all with the Missus last Saturday. No podcasting, no work and no kids, just the two of us remembering more simple times when we first got together and had the odd evening or day up in London. Everyone say Ahhhh!

May seem strange to many city dwellers who may yearn for the countryside, but that’s what we have all of the time in our small village, so it’s nice to see "the Smoke" once in a while.

We took in a play; "Legal Fictions" by the late John Mortimer, followed by a wander through Covent Garden market and then dinner, followed by a gentle stroll along the Embankement. Nice to see the scaffolding and covers have come off "Big Ben" and see the enormity of the "London Eye" at first hand.

Must do it again sometime!

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March 27, 2008

All change for the Versionistas!

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It seems the old versionist site (versionist.com) is coming to a close at the end of April, and a new one (versionist.net) is ready to take it’s place. But it’s not alone, and another collaborative/social network (interestingly, based on exactly the same platform jamroom.net) has also started at reggaedubwise.com. Come and meet I there…….

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March 24, 2008

AMPed#119

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I’m up on AMPed#119 again today. That’s the weekly digest of the Association Of Music Podcasting, featuring some great music such as….

Show: Ourobouros Podcast

Song: Death To Los Campesinos (Los Campesinos)

Show: The DarkCompass Podcast

Song: Sinners of Saint Avenue (Slave To The Square Wave)

Show: It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast

Song: Ways To Pass The Time (Campbell Todd)

Show: The Electrical Language Podcast

Song: Schiza (D-Alternative)

Show: The JogTunesIndie Podcast

Song: Better Take a Holiday (Homespun)

Show: PC Podcast with Pete Cogle

Song: State Of Mind (Visionary Underground)

Show: Indie Music Sampler

Song: Something In Your Eyes (David Martin)

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March 18, 2008

I’m on the BBC….!

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OK, so I’m not hosting a late night music show a la the late great John Peel, but I’m on the intro/outro of the last couple of Pods and Blogs Podcasts for 15th and 18th March 2008.

You too can join in the fun. Record a little intro (or outtro) something like…

"This is a download from the BBC. For more information visit our blog at http://bbc.co.uk/blogs/podsandblogs"

"You’ve been listening to Pods and Blogs from the BBC. For more information visit our blog at http://bbc.co.uk/blogs/podsandblogs"

…and then email it off to podsandblogs@bbc.co.uk and you’ll, more than likely, get a thank you email from Chris Vallance who runs the show.

Go on, join in…… be the media!

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March 17, 2008

No more tea and podcasts….

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And so, another podcasters "social network" has decided to close. This time it’s different and Pete and Emma Cooper, the site’s founders, have made the right decision, in my view. Pete and Emma started up T&P after the unpleasent demise of Britcaster. The britcaster site remains in place and still acts as a directory or "link farm" of new podcasts and episodes, but the forum was shut down after it all became rather unpleasent for it’s founders Neil and Jen Dixon.

Not a great fan of "dissing others in public" I was not a frequent poster at britcaster, and I’ve been pretty much the same at T&P, although T&P has been a fantasically civil place to hang out. As Pete has rightly pointed out the place is now just another "link farm" and is not really adding anything to the community, so it’s time to call it a day.

A big thanks to Pete and Emma for their efforts, and their typical humility encouraging everyone to head over to http://network.podcastmatters.co.uk to see what happens there!

Maybe see you there?

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March 16, 2008

Clever Little Mag…

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For those of you who havn’t heard (or bumped into) Gary Dring, or anyone else from Birmingham for that matter, then you’ll probably not aware of the excellent Clever Little Pod podcast. Well now you can get your hands on this madness for your eyes as well as your ears via Clever Little Mag magazine.

If, like me, you’ve chortled your way through The Framley Examiner and wanted a more regular addition to your readings whilst on the loo, then may I recommend this missive to tickle your humour buds!

* oh and by the way, as a fellow capricorn I would say that I’ve actually shacked up with a Virgo, not a Leo. Mind you, my sone is a Leo……. oh it’s all too complicated!

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March 10, 2008

Getting me some versionist love…!

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Big thanks to Ali (aka Lion Of Joppa Soundsystem) who told me about some of the posting going on about me (perhaps I should say "about I") at versionist.com. Great to see that these guys love podcasters as a promotional channel. I absolutely love the work these guys do and it’s so cool to see a dub theme be treated in so many different ways by so many dub masters.

So, do me a favour and head over to versionist.com and checkout some of the fantastic music!

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March 2, 2008

Notes from the Podding shed….

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Been a weekend of two halves so far. Firstly the terrible weather on friday night ripped the felting off the shed roof, so DIY Dad (not seen round these parts recently) came to the rescue and I was up on the roof sticking and tacking down a new one by tea time!

More interestingly I finally got myself a proper mixer and mic for the "studio".Mixer is a behringer 1204FX which is a bit over the top for my current needs, but better to "think big" I reckon. The mix is the "podcast standard" Samson C-3 and I’ve got a pop-guard and stand to make life a little easier.

Still using "PodProducer" for the actualy podcasting and still using the min-jack as input (rather than USB or firewire) but maybe this will change over time.

Still got some of the weekend left, which I will be spending (a) ironing (deep joy) and (b) as roadie for my son and his drum kit. Lookout Horsham- here we come!

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February 27, 2008

Which came first…. life or podcasting…?

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Saw a variation of the picture above and had to make my own copy. I like the idea of still listening once I’m gone.

Have I ever told you I love podcasting?

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February 25, 2008

Fuck Grapefruit!

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One of the guys in the office just told me about xkcd.com and this rather wacky cartoon. Remember your 5 fruits and vegetables per day folks!

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February 23, 2008

The Acorn Is In the Pot…..

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And in case you are wondering what on earth this means, you’re going to have to go over to the pcpodcast site or have a listen to PCP#205 aren’t you!

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February 20, 2008

How I went and saw Los Campesinos again down in Brighton, and someone said “They sound exotic, do they come from South America?”, and I said “No, Cardiff”.

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Ok, so the post title is a joke. If you know Los Campesinos, you’ll know they like using long sentences. Good on them, I say!

So, another great performance in Brighton yesterday. This time at the (slightly larger) Concorde2 venue. I was a little surprised that the place seemed a little empty when I arrived. First on the bill were Esiotrot (that’s Tortoise spelled backwards!) who I’ve heard of, and had a couple of good tracks. Then were Johnny Foreigner, who I know are playing the Great Escape Festival in May and who were good, but a little over-mic’ed and difficult to hear clearly.

LC, were as good as last time, when they played Brighton Komedia, and I definitely got the impression the bands naiivety is starting to wear off. Definitely more "rock and roll" than last time, and a lot more alcohol being consumed by Gareth. Was that really a bottle of wine going down there youngster? Let’s hope they don’t fall victim to their own success.

I reckon they’re going to go down a storm at the Festivals this summer. Check them out if you get the chance!

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February 18, 2008

Announcing the new “MIUK” widget…..

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The very clever GD has come out with a rathe clever widget which tells you when the next MIUK is coming now. So no pressure then!

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February 13, 2008

Things are going to get wicked around here…..

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Just been having a chat with Deshi Volanti, station manager of Wicked Radio, which streams out of Edgerton, Wisconsin in the US. Like my other podcasting buddies, Pauly B at Punky! Radio and Rowley over at Dark Compass Deshi has agreed to carry both PC Podcast at The Dub Zone on his station soon. I know Pauly and Rowley both have a strong punk/metal aspect to their shows, and this is what Wicked Radio often features, but lets hope the listeners like it. More news here and on the podcasts as it comes in.

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February 12, 2008

Academy Mobile Day on youtube

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The Academy Mobile Day Videos are now available on youtube in 5 sections. Here is the link to the playlist for all 5 videos….

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February 11, 2008

Video from Academy Mobile Day

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The Video of our talk at Microsoft’s Academy Mobile Day is now available below. I hope you enjoy it!

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February 10, 2008

PC Podcast Promotional Video

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I’ve finally got round to creaing a promotional video for PC Podcast on BTPodshow and youtube.com. Hope you like it…

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February 5, 2008

Podshow shindig in London…

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Off up to London today for a BTPodshow shindig. Surprisingly I’ve never been to one of these before. There was the (now ledgendary) beer and darts meet-up a couple of years ago when they were scouting for talent, and then another meet-up sometime last year which I could not attend. I suspect they’re going to show us all the Podshow.V3 goodness, which may indeed be goodness, or an overengineered confusing mess of a website. OK, so I’m a fan of the Keep it Simple Stupid approach to websites, and the first thing I want to see on a podcasting site is the RSS feed, which is really hard to find at btpodshow.com.

Anyway it’s a chance to meet up with a few others, inclusing Rowley Cutler, Neil Dixon and Pete Cooper, so should be a laugh!

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