I’ve been going to church ever since I can remember…I’ve survived Sunday school, enjoyed youth groups and sat through countless church services full of standing up, sitting down and singing songs written long before anyone in church can remember….to add to this I’ve heard plenty of drivel from the newer song writers and if I’m   Read More …

Last night Channel 4 aired the programme ‘Dispatches: Fasion’s Dirty Secret’ (which you can watch here). During the programme a couple of undercover reporters investigated how fashion in this country is being made in sweatshops. One reporter took a job at a manufacturer in Leicester where he was paid £2.5o an hour, made to work   Read More …

To a certain extent companies have always relied on word of mouth to promote their business….especially with new brands it seems that what the general public have to say can be the making or breaking of a product or store however as long as your majority were happy you could probably afford to upset a   Read More …

This morning I was up bright and early for a 8pm youth worker’s meet-up at Costa…so as I sleepily arrived and ordered a Fairtrade Americano I was disappointed to be told that ‘Costa no longer do Fairtrade’….although cheerily informed that it was all Rainforest Alliance’ This bugs me because whilst Nero refuse to do anything   Read More …

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   Read More …

So Jo and myself have got married, been on honeymoon, received all the wedding gifts, received some amazing photos which we’ve put in frames, written thank you cards and received our wedding video (on a complete tangent if you’re getting married avoid Clearview wedding videos in Caister at all costs…worst, most unprofessional video I’ve ever   Read More …

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   Read More …

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   Read More …

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   Read More …

Back in 2003 the Christian band Five Iron Frenzy called it a day…played their last gig at Filmore (USA) and the 9 piece band separated…I was 17 and had never heard of the band. It wasn’t until I was introduced to them by Ben & Hayley individually in 2004 that I eventually purchased their EP   Read More …

A campaign has sprung up in the last month aiming to get the Delirious? song ‘History Maker’ to number 1 for Easter…the Facebook group (here) has almost 50,000 members (which I’m not sure is enough for a number 1) and is encouraging people to download 1 of 2 versions of the Delirious? song. Alongside this   Read More …

A while back a friend on Facebook posted the status ‘If you like Relient K look up a band called Owl City’ and so I headed to Spotify and I have to say I wasn’t impressed. In all fairness I had it on in the background and didn’t pay a lot of attention to it   Read More …