Podcast One – Sometime in 2006… it all started!

Homelessness. Les Mis. Fat Dudes. Ricky Gervais. World Wrestler legs and bike shorts.. oh, and a spot of Nuclear Power!  This is sort of funny stuff…

It’s 2006… The only way I knew that was because we were headed home for Christmas, and it was before we moved buildings for work… AND I play Jimi…

Podcast Two – Imogen Heap Kicks off… October the 14th!?

Number two and it’s me again… Not sure “when” it is.. But I’m with “Mr. Nathan” he has “Orange” to say for himself…

John Farnham drops in for a duet, Mince Pies, Mr. Kipling, Snow & Rock…

Podcast Three – Oh baby – the music is amazing! – Rhiannon on Sunday the 29th of October, 2006!

Computers, the users make them what they are in 77% of cases… Surfing50States.com was on my radar, they’ve made it large now! Steve Irwin is dead, South Park suck.

Climate Change, Jailed Bloggers and a Pig is tested for foot and mouth… Oh, and Borat!?…(Oh, and the kid broke my tennis racket 5 years before) AND we speak to Mr. Nathan again!!… Amazing!!..

Good times eh…

A day in the country yesterday, setting up and shooting a number of performances by “The Moody Tuesdays” there were a couple of rock star moments… This, is one of them!

You can see more of THAT rockstar at www.nathanpask.com

The issue of security and monitoring is one that won’t go away. We’re watched on CCTV, Our calls are monitored, Emails filtered through the NSA, even companies monitoring their employee’s personal Youtube accounts. It’s poor form, but some deem it necessary…

..are you being watched?

I like recording stuff… I like hearing it… I like mucking about with music and stuff…

iPhone 4 plays stuff back in the following formats..
AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

But, what format does it record in?
…um, I dunno?

So, this is a test.. Recorded straight into the iPhone using voice recorder… no mic, no nothin’

Here’s the original m4a file (download it and delete it, make yourself feel good!)

And here’s a version converted to mP3 using Alto Mp3 Gold – 320kbps

What’s the best recording set-up for iPhone? I think I’ll try Sonoma’s “FourTrack” – anyone used it?

Black…

I want to share a little story based loosely around something that happened recently involving www.demotix.com and Mr. Mike Granatt…

Here’s the basis of what went on : “UK Press Card Authority chair Mike Granatt said: “The Demotix ‘press pass’ is nothing of the sort, despite the fact that it is designed to look like a genuine journalists’ identity document.” you can see a little more here.

So, on with the story…

I’ve been a supporter (though I didn’t quite fit really, music related stories not Demotix main market) of Demotix from the off. I could appreciate that a lot of people were not fans as the idea of introducing “citizen journalism” could be seen to be taking work from the current batch of paid journalists and letting “just about anyone with a voice or a camera” do the job… I have many journalist friends and in a mini gtvone-stylie survey, it was suggested that those people didn’t actually care all that much “If there’s news to be reported and someone is there, that’s good, as long as it’s reported fair and true” was the main theme amongst my snap-happy, copy-ridden friends… So I continued to submit my images and follow along on Twitter, meeting up with the guys on occasion and hearing what they had to say as a company (over a cheeky pint of milk) and generally liking everything about them…

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I had my new iPhone turn up and I had my new headphones turn up too, lovingly delivered by my little drug mule, Jodi – thank you.

So, I did a little research into what headphones I should use with my new gizmo, and after much too’ing and fro’ing I settled on the Beats By Dre – Tour… There’s a video below that goes a long way to describing why… These little guys are made by Monster, awesome cables, awesome cans…

One by-product of having a decent set of headphones with a decent mic is that you can use voice recorder to record random podcast type events… though, it’s a pain in the bum to get those podcasts off… I’d suggest you use iPhone Explorer so, yeah, I recorded a very interrupted podcast whilst washing dishes…

Beats by Dr. Dre Tour Mobile In-Ear Headphones

more to come…

You’ve been captured by Hispanic pirates, you’re on a new Airbus and there’s a copy of every music CD ever made in there with you… The mean looking one, with the moustache and the ancient gun says “Hey hombre, you got forrrty seconds to choose five cd’s, then we drop you on that tinnnnny little island down there”

My question to you was “What would you choose” (And Glen, I’ve not played a CD in a while either, but play along OK)

Here’s some of the replies…

3LeggedThing would take

1. Led Zep II
2. Dark Side of the Moon
3. Meteora
4. The Real Thing – Faith No More
5. Val Doonican

…and lunch and a raft

PedroKid would take…

1. Gunners Appetite for Destruction
2. DJ Yoda – How to cut and paste Pt2
3. Metallica’s Black Album
4. RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic
5. Fatboy Slim We’ve come a long way baby

Dangennoe would swipe

1. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (class!)
2. INSPIRACIÓN · ESPIRACIÓN – Gotan Project
3. LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO – Gotan Project
4. Prince “The Hits”
5. The soundtrack to the 1965 film “The ipcress file”

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The uber lovely Kele Le Roc totally rocked iNdigo2 when she supported the amazing Billy Ocean recently – here’s a few images from that night. Miss Le Roc, you rock! (Your dancing during Billy was second to none!) You will find the complete gallery here – please contact me if you would like images.

THe Dogg-Father kicked it live at the Shepherds Bush Empire (or whatever the hell it’s called now) on Friday night… here’s what happened in front of my lens (which incidentally was a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 on the business end of the Canon 5DMkII on manual with an iso of about 2000)

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