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Neil Thompson: Executive Producer
So it is funny how things turn out. Last week I was asking just what are producers good for? This week I find myself attending a film screening where I was an “Executive Producer” in the smallest and loosest possible sense. Anomalisa was funded via the Kickstarter crowd funding platform and I liked the sound …
Producers, what are they good for?
I always laugh when I see on an ad for a film that proudly states “From the producer that brought you xxxx”. From what I can see this is suggesting that I should go and see the film based on the person that managed to raise the money rather than someone that has any artistic …
The Big Short
I don’t think that I have ever written about a film I have seen before but I am moved to do so by a trip to the cinema this week to see The Big Short. If I am honest the premise for the film – the 2008 financial crisis – wasn’t one that sounded like …
Birdman
Tracks Added – Album of the Year 2015
Last year I documented all the music I added to my collection and finished by highlighting my album of the year. This year I didn’t record what I added but I did want to highlight my musical year. Looking at the stats on Subsonic I can see I have added 2,100 tracks which equates to …
A Box of 45’s
During a recent tidy up I found my old wooden box of 45 singles, regrettably I got rid of my albums years ago, although I am slowly rectifying that. I’m hugely proud of the box itself as it is the only decent thing I ever made in any of my craft lessons at secondary school. …
Steve Hackett, Anvil, Basingstoke, 2015
A quick look at my last.fm profile will tell you that I am pretty fond of a bit of Genesis. While I don’t mind the Phil Collins era (I’m a fan of Duke for example) it’s the Peter Gabriel era that really floats my boat. There have been numerous suggestions over the years that the …
My Amazonification
So this week Amazon released Prime Music in the UK which is a (very) restricted version of Spotify Premium. When I say restricted we are talking about 1 million tracks compared to Spotify’s 30 million catalogue. However, Prime Music is an additional perk of the Amazon Prime package which includes next day delivery, Prime Instant …
Getting Back Into the Groove
So a while back I went to my local record shop for Record Store Day and bought some hideously expensive vinyl on which I had nothing to play it. Wind forward a month or so and I got fed up of looking at the boxed set and wondering what it would be like to hear …