Tag: music
Singing in the subway
The urban phenomenon of an underground transport system never seems to do much for me. Indeed, I visited some cities whose subways are famous attributes – Paris and New York – without ever descending into them.
My user experiences were a mixed bag: from the dirty, stifling and claustrophobic (Lille, London) to the clinically efficient (Fukuoka, …
Rodrigo y Gabriela
The story goes that Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero played in a thrash metal band in their native Mexico. Presumably having failed to thrash the charts the band split, jettisoning our nimble-fingered duo to Dublin, the buskers’ paradise. There they were spotted and snagged by the festival circuit. Massive success followed, with an album produced …
Salsa Celtica
I first heard of Scottish band Salsa Celtica back in 2004, courtesy of WFMU radio’s Doug Schulkind.
I was just starting to get interested in latin and world music at the time and I hoovered up Schulkind’s Culture Shock collection. The Give The Drummer Some DJ had put together twenty soundclashes in which Latin would rub …
The Lion roared
Cadillac Jukebox @ The Lion, Castleford
The problem with being a covers band is that your audience tends to judge you on the quality of your renditions rather than the quality of your musicianship.
Cadillac Jukebox singer Ian McMullen acknowledges this, but for him the enjoyment comes from being able to play a wide, often surprisingly eclectic …
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Culture and Columbus in the Canaries
We took a short but very welcome trip to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the third week of November. Las Palmas is Spain’s seventh largest city and the administrative capital of …
- Originally published: 3 Dec 2007 in Europe
Manu Chao in Concert
Serendipity. That’s what I thought when I managed to secure a couple of tickets for J and I to see Manu Chao on his short tour of the UK with the Radio …
- Originally published: 11 Oct 2007 in Concerts
The Lion roared
Cadillac Jukebox @ The Lion, Castleford The problem with being a covers band is that your audience tends to judge you on the quality of your renditions rather than the quality of your …
- Originally published: 27 Oct 2007 in Concerts
Zwartboek (Black Book)
Director: Paul Verhoeven Netherlands, 2006 With the turbulent Hollywood years behind him, Verhoeven is back in Europe and the opening salvo is a freshly energetic epic that firmly suggests Amsterdam’s finest has rediscovered his …
- Originally published: 26 Jan 2007 in Film
Ma Mère
Director: Christophe Honoré France, 2004 Pierre has too much time on his hands. He’s a sullen, truculent, overweaned, morbid youth who spends his inordinate amount of spare time writing miserable prose and pulling faces …
- Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film
Who is that guy?
Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm based in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is St Feuillien Brune.