Tag: manchester
Toumani Diabaté
The griots are the curators of West African history, storing thousands of stories and songs in their memory.
Manu Chao in Concert
For listeners used to the laidback charms of Chao’s recorded repetoire, the live experience is somewhat more intense!
A walk in Longdendale
A bleak, depopulated valley on the Manchester side of the Peak District and a symbol of the industrial revolution.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
The Waterloo battlefield
A walk around the 1815 battlefield near Waterloo with a commentary on the key locations.
- Originally published: 6 Jun 2010 in Walking
Zodiac
Overlong and slightly overambitious but a welcome return for Fincher and a careermaker for Ruffalo.
- Originally published: 20 May 2007 in Film
York
Invaded by legions of Romans, then by hordes of Vikings and finally by masses of tourists.
- Originally published: 9 May 2008 in UK
Atonement
This adaptation of the novel is both period piece and manipulative melodrama.
- Originally published: 4 Feb 2008 in Film
J’s visit to Chatsworth House
J and her mother and sister visited Chatsworth House at the weekend. She took some photos which I’ve included below.
- Originally published: 20 Nov 2006 in UK
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.