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Beijing based music consultant and promoter spills the beans...

Earlier this year I discovered the fantastic knob-twiddling/sampling/crooning charms of Aussie-Belgian Wally De Backer. Going under the artist name ‘Gotye‘ the 26 year old has released a couple of spanking albums. His second full-length, Like Drawing Blood, was released in Australia in 2006 and slowly, by word of mouth has worked its way round the [...]

The other day I was asked by a friend to pick out a few examples of classic British comedy. So, in no particular order, here you go Will..
Blackadder Goes Forth

Alan Partridge

Monty Python

Fast Show

Harry Enfield

After visiting the Soviet Union in the 1930s, American actor/singer/civil rights activist Paul Robeson became smitten with communist society and it’s egalitarian ideals. He found that “the country was entirely free of racial prejudice and that Afro-American spiritual music resonated to Russian folk traditions.”
“Here, for the first time in my life … I walk in [...]

Bamboo scaffolding on a seven story building in the French Concession, Shanghai - Nov ‘08

A fake book cart in the French Concession, Shanghai - Nov ‘08

Crudely bound, yet functional copies of English language texts

At some point I have to stop adding time-saving and productivity applications into my life and actually get to work. In the meantime though, I have convinced myself that this one does actually save me time and increase productivity. Evernote:

I am currently writing an article which requires a fair amount of research on the internet. [...]

In it’s previous existence as a music industry blog I wrote an article on this site called ‘Pissing On The Bamboo Curtain’ (now moved here). It was an interview with Ian and Kyle, the men behind a podcast of the same name. Since posting the article I have had a steady stream of traffic coming [...]

With it’s tagline ‘Broadcast Him’, GodTube is Chrisianity’s way of embracing social video media. Curiousity led me to having a rummage around the GodTube all-time charts to see what pieces of video content have been democratically voted to best sum up the passions and faith of the largest religion in the world.
It should perhaps be no [...]

Terrestrial television has more or less completely been phased out of my life in China. Unless you live in an ‘international building’ (which I don’t) or have invested in an enormous satellite dish (which I haven’t) then you are pretty much stuck with CCTV9, the English language news channel from government run China Central Television. [...]