Where were you when you first saw Apple’s 2024 advert for the iPad Pro: ‘the thinnest product they’ve ever created’? That’s what people will ask each other in 50 years. Maybe that’s what their descendants will ask each other in 500. A cataclysmic world event. A mission statement for the future. A giant hydraulic press … [Read more…]

I’ve been interested to read the press around Taylor Swift’s new album. These big cultural events tell us much about where society’s collective head is at regarding the music industry, consumerism, the artist vs the art, and culture in general. I haven’t listened to much of Swift’s later work but I found the single ‘Anti-Hero’ … [Read more…]

It’s release day of a new track and, with it, that feeling that I’m doing both too much and not enough to get the word out there to people. What I am trying to get my head around is how relatively unimportant release day for a track is, compared to what a piece of music … [Read more…]

In one chapter of ‘Remembered For A While’, an anthology of essays and reflections on the life, music and inner world of the musician Nick Drake, there are lyrics and even a prospective tracklist for what would have been his fourth studio album. Of course, his life was tragically cut short, and that album was … [Read more…]