My journals from 1984 until now
August 2nd 2014 – Day 1, Las Vegas It’s 3:30am in Vegas and 11:30am in London and, predictably, I am wide awake… Our day started at 6am yesterday, taxi at 8 to Gatwick. Flight delayed by an hour due to blocked toilets. Then a 10 hour flight which was actually was not as bad as … Read more
Wednesday 2nd of July 2014 – My extremely brief foray into DJ land Back in 2007, when Serious Business nights were running, I thought it would be a good idea to have a go at being a DJ for one night. At around 10pm and with mostly only my friends in the room upstairs at … Read more
Sunday 22nd of June 2014 – The Trip: Jeff Mills + A Guy Called Gerald We weren’t sure what to expect from this. Dance music at the Royal Festival Hall? Not allowed to stand up, for starters. What would the atmosphere be like? When we got to the Southbank Centre we got ourselves drinks and … Read more
Saturday 21st of June 2014 – People’s Assembly against Austerity March http://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/ People’s Assembly Twitter Feed (Twitter, futurally known as X) There was little press coverage about this march, nothing from the BBC, I complained as have others. An estimated 50,000 people attended. Francesca Martinez’s speech was moving and peppered with ‘F***s’ and all the … Read more
Wednesday 14th of June 2014 – Rusty, the photogenic cat As you no longer let me constantly take photos of you since you hit puberty (understandable) I have had to find another muse… This dubious honour has fallen to Rusty, the best cat in the world ever, who’s a very compliant subject and is happy … Read more