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As I previously mentioned this year Jo and myself headed to Greenbelt after the encouragement of a good friend and the temptation from Greenbelt of a free youth worker ticket paid off so on Friday we packed up the car and headed down to Cheltenham Racecourse. We arrived at around 12 and joined the queue [...]

Back in 2001 as a family we tuned into ‘Popstars’…a new concept as far as TV Shows went…as the weeks went on we went from seeing people audition to finally ending up with ‘Hear Say’. The show continued introducing us to the band as they recorded their first single and filmed their first music video [...]

Next Friday Jo and myself (plus a various others we know) head to Cheltenham Racecourse for Greenbelt. For those who’ve haven’t heard of Greenbelt it’s probably the most unique Christian festival that happens in the UK. I’ve heard it described by some as ‘fantastic’ and others as ‘liberal’ so it should be an interesting experience. [...]

Yesterday as we boarded the ferry to journey back to France after a week’s honeymoon I purchased ‘The Sun’ in order to catch up with the news in a format that my 5 hours-worth-of-driving brain could handle and it wasn’t the ‘coming out’ of X-Factor flop Joe McElderry the caught my eye (although his coming [...]

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m quite an Apple fan…I converted to Macs 2 and a half years ago and would never look back…my iPod has kept me company through many-a-journey and nothing out there compares to the Apple operating system and mp3 players. However the one product I was never sold [...]

This topic of this post has becoming very prominent in my thoughts in the last week and a half and whilst I think my thoughts in this blog would be served better with some specific examples it just isn’t appropriate to post them (if you’ve spoke to me recently or live in South Cave you [...]

Last weekend myself, Joel, Stuart & Greg headed off to the Isle of Wight Festival…boarding the half 5 ferry at Portsmouth and arrived at the picturesque island (which I haven’t visited for about 15 years) around half 6. Whilst I have managed a fair few gigs in the last 5/6 years a festival is one [...]

On Friday night I had my first Casino experience. For Lucy’s 21st a group of us headed up to the Hull branch of ‘Napoleons’ to celebrate! The only experiences I’ve ever had of gambling come from 2 very different perspectives. The first perspective is that of the tacky gamble…I grew up being taken to holiday [...]

Ever since back in January when Steve Jobs announced the iPad after many rumors anticipating the tablet device (I blogged on this here) I have been eagerly awaiting the chance to actually try one out. In my originally blog my initial thoughts of the iPad were mixed…you may remember me blogging: Whilst I think the [...]

Before I waffle on for a bit you can download ‘Escape This Town’ free here at bandcamp (name a price of zero) or be lovely and pay for it on amazon mp3 or iTunes Back when I was 16 and I could only play the drums (and a tiny bit of keyboard) I started song [...]

So this evening Gordon Brown resigned after what wasn’t really a very successful time as Prime Minister….it’s not that he was bad at it but I feel like he was dropped in the deep end and didn’t really have the charisma for being a Prime Minister. Cameron is now our Prime Minister…however with compromise…the news [...]

Whether you think the match of Sun readers and Conservative is about as odd as ethnic minorities voting BNP, whether you think Nick Clegg obviously likes Sheffield so much it would be a shame to take him away or whether you think despite the party election broadcast telling us the election is not about voting [...]

Last night I finally got around to watching the 1950′s version of ‘House of Wax’ which I got on DVD a few months back. The 2005 remake is one of my favourite horror films both with plot and production so I was curious to see how different it was from the original. The original and [...]

Last night I fell asleep watching the final leaders debate on iPlayer…this morning having woke up earlier than I’d wanted I finished off watching the debate and feel that whilst I’ve learned a lot through the debates things aren’t much clearer. There’s been so much stuff to take in with this election stuff it’s difficult [...]

I’ve had the King Blues album ‘Save the world, get the girl’ playing in my car over the last few days and it’s a fantastic album. The last track is about 7 minutes long and is titled ‘What if punk never happened?’…it’s not a musically great song but lyrically it is one of my favourite [...]