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Regular readers will know that I used to be in a band, and that I’ve been meaning to upload all the old stuff for ages. I’ve finally got round to it, and (most) of the Kasino stuff is now on Bandcamp. If you’re not aware of my occasionally shameful past, Kasino were a Glaswegian rock [more]
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This week’s news that a Twitter abuser suddenly saw the light when it was suggested that his tweets be sent to his mum reminded me of this, a column I wrote for .net back in 2008. Britain may not have an empire any more, but we still rule the world of bad driving. Sure, the [more]
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Nice piece by Bob Lefsetz on the whole Spotify thing: The truth is, if you’re a superstar, there’s still plenty of money in music. And superstars are the future, because no one’s got time for any less. Just like there’s one iTunes Store, one Amazon and one Google, we don’t need a plethora of me-too [more]
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An excellent piece by Eamonn Forde in The Guardian: if you can’t make money from streaming, how can you make money from music? The answer: get played a lot on Radio 2 or play a private gig for someone rich. [more]
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Radio Scotland’s been giving this quite a lot of airplay recently, and quite right too: it’s lovely. [more]
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I’ve mentioned a few times that the iPhone 5 is much quieter than the iPhone 4/4S on some headphones, such as my Atomic Floyd Superdarts, and I suggested using the Denon Audio app to boost the volume. It’s better, but it isn’t perfect: if you’re trying to address a lack of low-end thump, as I [more]
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JasonW informs me that Coffin Dodgers is actually being pirated (as opposed to being listed on sites that don’t actually have it). It’s here if you’re interested, although the download links try to get you to sign up for things you don’t need and install things you don’t want. The book is also available legally [more]
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Unscrupulous app developers are in the news again today, with parents suffering “bill shock” when the kids buy expensive in-game items without the parents’ permission. There’s a setting in iOS that makes such things possible even if you don’t share your password with your kids, and it’s a good idea to change it. It’s in [more]
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This is just lovely. One of AMOK’s stand-out tracks stripped down to a single voice and piano. (From ITV’s Jonathan Ross show, May 2013) [more]
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A fun wee thing I did for Techradar: ten digital-age dodos. [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
