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The Floating City Game begins! 23 Jun 2011 | 04:38 am
With immense pride I can announce that The Floating City Game is launching at this moment! It’s been a huge undertaking, and I’m deeply indebted to the game designers, programmers, artists, and wr...
Two (and a half?) gigs in July 13 Jun 2011 | 10:35 am
I will be making a couple of concert appearances at the end of July along with my friends The Pirate Twins. It’ll be a short electronic set featuring some 80s classics and (possibly!) a sneak preview ...
The Prince of Crim Tartary 5 Jun 2011 | 10:00 pm
I loved this childhood reminiscence from my sister Lucy. We were never big on photography in my family, but though a photo of this (circa late 1940s–early 1950s) would have been fascinating, the image...
Two Webby Award nominations today! 13 Apr 2011 | 02:51 am
My video for ‘Toad Lickers’ received two Webby(tm) Award nominations today, in the Music category! If you’ve got a minute, go here and look at the 5 contenders, and vote the whichever you consider to...
Floating Hotel 17 Jan 2011 | 09:56 pm
I blogged about the massive wind farm that is being constructed in the North Sea within (occasional) view of my wheelhouse. There are currently 56 turbines up out of a planned 141 – making this the bi...
lossless formats 10 Dec 2010 | 11:22 pm
A lot of people have been asking me whether I plan to release my new material in ‘lossless’ formats such as WAV or FLAC. The answer is that when the new album comes out, it will be available in higher...
And so ends the Amerikana era…. 24 Nov 2010 | 01:39 pm
The ‘Toadlickers’ music video came out, made a lot of noise, reached #18 in the YouTube ‘most viewed’ chart, got a lot more views, then rapidly vanished from the chart altogether! I think this was a ...
Here come the Toadlickers 22 Nov 2010 | 04:40 am
I just released my first music video of the 21st century! ‘The Toadlickers‘ is now live on YouTube. I’m expecting millions of new fans (is that a good thing? many of them probably found the video beca...
‘Oceanea’ EP update 4 Nov 2010 | 03:00 am
My new EP is currently being mastered by Simon Heyworth, in Devon. For those ‘in the know’ he’s not expecting to re-EQ it much, just looking at the peakiness. When there are occasional spikes in volum...
Windfarm 17 Oct 2010 | 09:47 pm
For months, I’ve been seeing the strangest vessels heading out across the North Sea from a nearby port. Giant semi-immersible cranes, tugs towing impossible structures. I knew there was a wind farm go...
