In each post on the main page, I make mention of the publications who have had the lapse in concentration required to run my work. Here is a rundown, in a chronological sense, of what and who they actually are.
Seren
The Student’s Union newpaper of University of Wales, Bangor, where I spent three years bumbling haphazardly through a degree. I wrote for this in the final year of my degree when it was presided over by a good friend of mine. This goes some way towards explaining why, respectively, I rarely got anything else done and why my words got published at all. My role was mostly to review music, but the editor, the aforementioned friend, saw fit to give me my own column in which I could waffle borderline coherently about whatever I fancied. It’s unlikely that those writings will ever see the light of day on the internet. Thanks James.
Maps Magazine
Maps Magazine is an online music publication, run by some lovely people. I wrote reviews and conducted interviews for them in 2006 and for some of 2007. The best experience I had whilst involved with Maps was being paid in cake for DJing, fearfully, at a night that the editor Paul Madden put on in London. Just one of the perks.
Field Records
Field Records is something I have mixed feelings about. It was a blog I started towards the end of last year with the intention of solely documenting live music. This in itself is hardly a revolutionary step into the unknown for the weblog, but it was also my intention to enliven it’s body of writing by procuring performances from the bands I was covering or interviewing, in as intimate a place as we could find, recorded onto my trusty dictaphone. Practically speaking, this resulted in performance from Gossamer Albatross in a McDonald’s car park, and a recording of the wonderful Adam Gnade in a freezing dressing room. It also yielded, in the case of the latter, what I feel is the finest interview I have conducted to date.
Such minor triumphs couldn’t sustain the flow of content however, and soon my geographical separation from places where music and performance actually happen took it’s toll. The blog now loiters on the internet, in an extended period of stasis. It may come back one day, it may not.
Audioscribbler
AS is another online music publication, started as a University project by Kane Fulton. It has since blossomed into the lovely multimedia enterprise that it is now. I suppose you could stay that I currently write for them, although in a typically slovenly manner. They do radio shows and all sorts.
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