Category: Audio
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Michael Kamen
I’ve only just learnt that composer Michael Kamen has died at the age of 55. Only a couple of weeks ago, I was transferring my cassette of his soundtrack (with Eric Clapton) for Edge of Darkness from cassette to my PC for burning to CD. He had loads of film credits and recently he did…
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Arcadia
I dug out my old cassettes of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard to have another listen. I saw the original NT production of it when it visited Bath on tour some time around 1993 (I daresay I have my programme tucked away in the loft). Subsequently the production was recorded by Radio 3, and my cassettes…
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Pete & Geoff
Nice interview with Pete & Geoff in the Sunday Times.
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I Bought the Daily Mail – Shaming
Yes it’s bad. But for 70p I got a load of Elvis songs – and one of them is Suspicious Minds – so I had no choice really.
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Trawler
Radio 4 are currently serialising the latest Redmond O’Hanlon book, Trawler, as book of the week. I must admit that I haven’t read a great many of his books since I read Into The Heart of Borneo first in Granta, and then in paperback back in the eighties. Actually I did read the follow-up, In…
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Hitchhikers Confirmed
Well it seems that The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy really is returning to radio! Of course there’s still no BBC Press Release in the radio section, but given the enormous detail (including the fact that some of the stories won’t appear until this time next year!), I’m rather inclined to believe it. In fact…
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Attacks on Radio 3 Music Policy
Good to hear that Gerald Kaufman’s having a go at Radio 3 now. OK – he’s not alone in his attacks, with plenty of others complaining about the inclusion of non-classical music, and easy-listening like, er, Gershwin. I think the real objection seems to be that Late Junction and Andy Kershaw both pop-up on the…
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The Return of Hitchhikers?
According to this article on Mediaguardian, Hitchhikers is returning next year, with an adaptation of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I suppose the big question is, who writes the scripts, and who are they going to cast. I must admit that I’d like to read a bit more from an official source,…
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V Festival 2003
Or just “V Festival” as it should be known. The weather held out, and the Virgin Radio hospitality tent looked better than ever. We didn’t have the problems we’d had before with food, which was handled expertly and efficiently. Coldplay and the Chili Peppers headlined, and I did make out of the Virgin area on…
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Michael Nyman
One way or another, I’ve done quite well out of the BBC today. As well as waking me up earlier today, they also supplied me with free tickets to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing film music by Michael Nyman at the Royal Festival Hall this evening. Nyman himself was conducting, with a full range…
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Oh The Irony
I’m happily asleep this morning when the phone rings. I look at the clock and see that it’s 7.34, which means I’m late. Who’s phoning me at 7.34? Alex from the Danny Baker Show that’s who. I’m suddenly aware that my radio is set to Radio 3 since that’s what I put it on to…
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Nil Points
For the first time ever, we came bottom of Eurovision with nil points. No relegation for us however, since we bankroll the whole thing.
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Music Collector
I’ve just returned to a program that I first got interested in a couple of years ago – Music Collector. The idea is that it keeps a database of all my CD music (and indeed any other music that I have). The really clever part is that it can batch scan CD TOCs and then…