* chest hooping – it’s so difficult but I managed three successful seconds yesterday and I’m going to try again when I’ve finished the video edit that is rendering as I type this post. * embracing change – new hair is happening! I’d forgotten how fun it is to create...

No studio for me today, which feels weird after such long hours spent there in the last few weeks. Myles is mixing “Slow Puncture” and “Ghosts & Shadows” while I try and catch up on a pile of video work that’s been languishing on my home computer while I’ve...

It’s 1.10am Mexico time and I’m sitting up in my hotel room in Merida finishing off some last minute client video stuff before hitting the sack after a day of travel. I’ve now been awake for nearly 24 hours. I wanted to share some photos from the Freedom festival at...

FIRST: I wanted to remind you all I will be appearing not once but twice at this weekend’s Freedom Festival. Set over two days and two venues (Krankenhouse in Crouch End and The Foundry in Shoreditch), the festival is being staged by the powerhouse behind Djevara Music and the...

This is an in-transit blogging test. I’m tapping away on my iPhone in a car on the way to a function band gig on Chichester, swaying as James the pilot negotiates bends in the motorway but not making too many mistakes to correct later I hope. Phone blogging could make things...

INSTRUCTIONS: click play below to hear the awesome Shinichi Osawa remix of Young Punx track “Rock Star (Understand)” co-rewritten by myself, Hal Ritson and Phonat from the original, fabulous Asian Kung-Fu Generation song and let it accompany a freshly uploaded set of photos from my July jaunt around Japan. ...

I am back! Touched down at Heathrow at 2.30 on Thursday, gibbering jetlag hit around 10pm and I spent most of Friday napping. Today I feel almost human again after a nice run in the park – half marathon training gets serious now – some good food and...