Steve Thompson For no apparent reason this thought came to me as I was out driving: “I’ve played guitar with the Jeff Beck group and sung with the Nolan Sisters”. How diverse is that? So. how did these two, poles apart situations come about? Well, firstly producer Wayne Bickerton picked up on one of my songs and wanted to … Read more
Charlie Crane I met Charlie Crane mid to late 80’s through my work as a songwriter. I had just come to the end of a publishing contract with MCA Music and Charlie had just left employment as a publisher (can’t remember – maybe it was ABC Music) I was looking for a new publisher and … Read more
October 1st and 2nd sees 3 workshops taking place in the locations below in the Drama in the Dale production “The Bonny Moorhen”. This is a community play being developed by Jack Drum Arts with community groups to dramatise the Stanhope Riot of 1819 My part in this is to develop additional Digital activities. These … Read more
I have a slightly altered remit from October 1st and a range of exciting and interesting Community Informatics and Community Media projects starting up. Drama in the Dales This project led by Jack Drum Arts is about the creation of a ‘community play’ for Weardale, inspired by the story of ‘The Battle of Stanhope’ as … Read more
One day I’ll finish my “Places in Time” project. Meanwhile I just found an older recording inspired by Henk van Rensbergen’s “Abandoned Places” Website. Henke kindly allowed me to use some of his evocative images to accompany my music for an exhibition in 2002. Abandoned Places by ST Media
I just wiped my Mac and started to reinstate software. Ableton Live and Propellerheads Reason/Record were fine but Cubase would not recognise the dongle. Same problem with my soft synths Korg M1 and Wavestation (I used to have these synths) and Absynthe. I decided to just use these on the PC and finsh earlier projects … Read more