Hydrogen Jukebox
Neil Jenkins of Dandelion Radio is playing Hydrogen Jukebox track “The Garden” on his monthly show. Hydrogen Jukebox is a duet with Steve Tromans using mainly minimalist music and spoken […]
Author: Sid Peacock
Albert Hoffman
Albert Hoffman January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008.
Birmingham Jazz Youth
This pic is made of pasting two together. This explains the colour difference in the middle and odd liking of balcony above. Last Saturday 15th saw the culmination of three […]
Music jobs
At some point or other I signed up for emails about jobs from artshub.It is a website providing information about jobs in the arts. Today there was 23 music jobs […]
Hybrid Commission
Last Monday at Hotel du Vin in Birmingham I presented a commissioned piece for Birmingham arts group Hybrid. It was a musical piece developed conceptually on the them of “them […]
Paddy Bashing
I see Ireland’s budget airline Ryanair is in trouble with the media again for an advert featuring a model as a scantily clad schoolgirl, BBC article here. I got my […]
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
“The Death of Mr Lazarescu” is a Romanian film by director Chris Puiu. Mr Lazarescu is an old guy who lives in a flat with his three cats and obviouslydrinks […]
Birmingham Jazz Youth Creative Big Band Sessions
Coming up on Saturday 19th January at the CBSO centre Birmingham Jazz are hosting the first of 3 creative big band sessions. If you are interested in being part of […]
Taxidermia
The other night my girlfriend and I rented Taxidermia on DVD. It is described by Bizarre magazine as “One of the biggest head-fucks ever committed to celluloid”. And indeed it […]
On The Road
My first artistic activity of 2008 was working with Steve Tromans on a musical setting of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel “On The Road”. This is part of Steve’s “Beat Series” […]