by David | Apr 17, 2014 | Articles
One thing you discover quite fast about Amsterdam is that, like most major cities, it is an island with an identity of its own, quite different from the rest of the country. London is like this, as is New York and even Johannesburg. Since moving to Amsterdam I am, in...
by David | Apr 16, 2014 | Articles
Humanities Day at the University of Amsterdam As part of Humanities Day at the University of Amsterdam, The Amsterdam Writers Guild (AWG) came up with the idea of a Poem-o-Matic as a way of show-casing the Guild’s activities.Basically the idea is this: Two poets sit...
by David | Mar 24, 2014 | Articles
Today’s blog is about digital technology and the arts… I think. But that’s where I want to start anyway! It’s about giving things away for free and the value that people ascribe to things. It’s about how we see the world of art and business and how these two things...
by David | Jul 29, 2013 | Articles
One of the guys working here at the country pub where I am living and working has also managed bands. As a result we’ve had some interesting conversations.I decided to stop managing bands after working with The Hellphones until about 2005. But over the years I have...
by David | Jul 22, 2013 | Articles
By the time I hit my teens, I had already discovered so-called alternative music and culture through my siblings and my friends. But we were a bunch of alien outcasts in a grey conformist world that sneered at our black clothes, obscure lyrics and tiny, specialist...
by David | Mar 17, 2013 | Articles
On Friday morning I learned of the tragic death of Garth McLeod… Its two days later and no-one really seems to know what happened and I am still trying to assimilate the information.Garth was one of those people who pretty much everyone just liked. In the mid...
