Stop for one second and think about what Social Network actually means. Social: Pertaining to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations Network: An association of individuals having a common interest, formed to provide mutual assistance, helpful information, or the like. My point? Having a Facebook page, Twitter Profile and YouTube account does more »
Over the next few weeks I’ll be looking at how to get set up online, avoiding the pitfalls and making the most of your time in cyberspace. This will be familiar to many of you but no harm in starting at the very beginning. It is easy to get caught up in the addiction of more »
An early broadcast of of Tom Robinson’s Evening Sequence from the 6 Music studios – pic comes courtesy of a great 1932 photoset on Flickr tweeted by Jem Stone. Read more on the BBC’s 80th Anniversary of Broadcasting House.
Photos from Tom’s 60th Birthday gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire by Roger Goodgroves This is such a fundamentally f**king obvious part of an artist’s career that I am in complete incomprehension as to how or even why I hear so much grumbling from promoters about artists and vice versa. It is really simple, you more »
Yes yes! Come here for your freshly heated musical pasties! Queue up in an alphabetised orderly line like here: DRY THE RIVER – New Ceremony Tom accidentally left this on the Listening Post from last week and loads of people rated it in their top 5 again – even though it already made the Fresh more »
BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end on 2 April 2012. It started out as a single 120 minute show that went out every Saturday night from midnight (technically Sunday morning). In June 2008 it was expanded to two more »
My interview last year with the London band Raven Beats Crow has been visually reimagined by… erm, the London band Raven Beats Crow. This might be a good moment to mention they’ll be releasing another deranged single soon called “Second Floor” – but you don’t have to wait, you can hear it streaming below. Londoners more »
Was pleased and highly flattered to see that my song Glad To Be Gay has made it into Time Out’s list of 100 Songs That Changed History, amid VERY illustrious company indeed. Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring ? Blimey. Click on the image above to go to the full list. The song also has a dedicated more »
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