hi there, any requests, drop a line into the comments - I guess it is the best way to get in touch with me barring twitter
here is the playlist for tonight as it happens -
A very Cellular song - Incredible String Band
Stephanie Says - Lee Renaldo
Sun Spots - No Age
I hang suspended - The Boo Radleys
Jim Fear - the Dillinger Escape Plan
Burn My Shadow - Unkle feat Ian Astbury
Burkelbos - Sylvester Anfang II
Candy Says - The Telescopes
Sundial - Wolfmother
Everybody's gotta live - Love
These are all illusions - as In RebekkaMaria
Super Good - Boredoms
How is you sleep - Kirsten Ketsjer
Howl - Jónsi and Alex
War is Over - Speaker Bite Me
Dearest Darling - Half Japanese
The Soft Beating - Efterklang
Hypnopaedia - The Octopus project
Kyklopes - Helena Espvall & Masaki Baton
Flying around the sun at remarkable speed - Giant Sand
I don't say a word on air about the mistakes that are made - it has been a while since I have done this live and am still getting to grips if all the different apps open etc etc - so will not be uploading any recordings until i have the techie side down to a tee.
See you next week - any requests, get in touch @spo3 or leave a comment here. Take care...
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Confused about branding...
I have never been confused about branding. Like a good friend once said to me about computers many years ago, "Nothing about computers is difficult for me. There are problems, yes, but only problems that will be solved". I have the same attitude about branding. Nothing about branding comes unknown to me - only problems that need to be solved - I blame a childhood obsessed by TV, colour, Star Wars and punk music - oh, and throwing stones at an old disused tug boat moored across a river (that is my version and i am sticking to it!).
But there is some inbuilt barometer in my head when it comes to branding - I can very quickly see what will work and what will not, i get a mental twitch. And now that I have a bit of schooling where there was lectures concerning branding (sometimes by teachers who I felt didn't see the depth of what a brand can mean) I feel that I can now describe the results, direction, strength etc of that twitch.
But my own brand! (god on a bike putting hamsters out of business!! (That is an exclamation btw)). I have been trying to divide my workings into discernible brands that have a certain amount of continuity - the continuity being myself and what I do and explore/develop - but I just can't seem to organise them into anything that my head would twitch at - so here is a short list of what and where <i am and then where I want to take myself -
spo3 - here, and now with (thanks to the HKW) spo3.com and spo3.net - many people ask me about the spo3 moniker and where it comes from - at school I was known as Spook because of my pale skin, and one of my favorite bands when i was a teenager was Spacemen 3. Inside a cover of their Sounds of Confusion album was a handwritten graphic of the bands name and I always admired the way the "3" had been drawn more than written - I started to copy it onto text books and the like (a t-shirt if memory serves) and from somewhere the Spo3 moniker came into being - "sp" being present in both had a hand in there too. There is the back story to spo3.
theclearspots and theclearspots.com - comes from a Captain Beefheart album title and song - "I have to run so far to find a clear spot.." sings the captain. This "environment" is for collaborations i do with others under one umbrella - not controlled by me but in partnership with me. This is less developed than spo3.
burncats blog may have to be burnt itself - because of time issues perhaps of will - I don't want to dilute myself too much (though this sounds a touch melodramatic)
I need a branding visual - and logos! (or is that ethos)
But there is some inbuilt barometer in my head when it comes to branding - I can very quickly see what will work and what will not, i get a mental twitch. And now that I have a bit of schooling where there was lectures concerning branding (sometimes by teachers who I felt didn't see the depth of what a brand can mean) I feel that I can now describe the results, direction, strength etc of that twitch.
But my own brand! (god on a bike putting hamsters out of business!! (That is an exclamation btw)). I have been trying to divide my workings into discernible brands that have a certain amount of continuity - the continuity being myself and what I do and explore/develop - but I just can't seem to organise them into anything that my head would twitch at - so here is a short list of what and where <i am and then where I want to take myself -
spo3 - here, and now with (thanks to the HKW) spo3.com and spo3.net - many people ask me about the spo3 moniker and where it comes from - at school I was known as Spook because of my pale skin, and one of my favorite bands when i was a teenager was Spacemen 3. Inside a cover of their Sounds of Confusion album was a handwritten graphic of the bands name and I always admired the way the "3" had been drawn more than written - I started to copy it onto text books and the like (a t-shirt if memory serves) and from somewhere the Spo3 moniker came into being - "sp" being present in both had a hand in there too. There is the back story to spo3.
theclearspots and theclearspots.com - comes from a Captain Beefheart album title and song - "I have to run so far to find a clear spot.." sings the captain. This "environment" is for collaborations i do with others under one umbrella - not controlled by me but in partnership with me. This is less developed than spo3.
burncats blog may have to be burnt itself - because of time issues perhaps of will - I don't want to dilute myself too much (though this sounds a touch melodramatic)
I need a branding visual - and logos! (or is that ethos)
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Sunday 14th November radio23.org show
Playlist -
True happiness this way lies - The the
Only a Northern Song - Beatles
Common People - William Shatner
What's for dinner - King Khan and the BBQ
Woods - Bon Iver
Reason is Treason - Kasabian
Atlas - Battles
BOTE - Menomena
Soldier On - The Temper Trap
When Should we go - CallMeKat
Station Approach - Elbow
Sometimes the Wheels - Neil Halstead
No Kind Words - The Maccabees
Brassneck (Live) - The Wedding Present
Two Chairs - Murder
Forsyn - Lis er Stille
Skip Divided - Thom Yorke
Crystalized - The XX
Stay with Us - The Young Gods
Rocking Horse - Kelli Ali
Not A reasonable Man - I am Kloot
DLZ - TV on the Radio
Safety in Numbers - Strikes the Colours
Boat Behind - Kings of Convenience
I've been loving you too long - Booker T and the M.G's(with Boz Scaggs)
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Have to end on that note!
If you want a copy drop me a line in the comments or get me @spo3 on twitter...
Listen directly to great shows on radio23.org - for an alternative listen
True happiness this way lies - The the
Only a Northern Song - Beatles
Common People - William Shatner
What's for dinner - King Khan and the BBQ
Woods - Bon Iver
Reason is Treason - Kasabian
Atlas - Battles
BOTE - Menomena
Soldier On - The Temper Trap
When Should we go - CallMeKat
Station Approach - Elbow
Sometimes the Wheels - Neil Halstead
No Kind Words - The Maccabees
Brassneck (Live) - The Wedding Present
Two Chairs - Murder
Forsyn - Lis er Stille
Skip Divided - Thom Yorke
Crystalized - The XX
Stay with Us - The Young Gods
Rocking Horse - Kelli Ali
Not A reasonable Man - I am Kloot
DLZ - TV on the Radio
Safety in Numbers - Strikes the Colours
Boat Behind - Kings of Convenience
I've been loving you too long - Booker T and the M.G's(with Boz Scaggs)
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Have to end on that note!
If you want a copy drop me a line in the comments or get me @spo3 on twitter...
Listen directly to great shows on radio23.org - for an alternative listen
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Podcast no. 15
Get the podcast here!
(Just thought I would switch it around and put the link up the top)
Yes yes - hard and heavy is the theme of the day - and as such, I have assembled quite a nasty piece of work here - from Star Trek cross Pulp, all the way through to a funked up saturday afternoon at the blue movie house, the middling ground comes over offensive and dark in equal measures with a subtle twist of a bad bad day - somebody somewhere asked for this - and well, if you are that person and you are reading this, then here you go... engoy.
Common People - William Shatner
Destro's Secret - The Dillinger Escape Plan
Better than Heaven (No Age mix) - Bloc Party
Police - Fucked Up
You know what you are? - Nine Inch Nails
C.I.D. - UK Subs
Glamorous - The Jesus Lizard
Angela - Jarvis Cocker
bad Day in Bodega land - The Untamed
Superconnected - Broken Social Scene
Hold My Hand - UNKLE
Mantaray - Kashmir
A New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull
Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip
Gum - Cornelius
Uprising - Muse
Silver Shoes - Puerto Muerto
Four Corners - Lee Dorsey.
(yeah, I know, could be harder, could be heavier - just don't want to scare off too many people.... yet.)
(Coming soon to www.radio23.org - internet radio - for the alternative listen)
(Just thought I would switch it around and put the link up the top)
Yes yes - hard and heavy is the theme of the day - and as such, I have assembled quite a nasty piece of work here - from Star Trek cross Pulp, all the way through to a funked up saturday afternoon at the blue movie house, the middling ground comes over offensive and dark in equal measures with a subtle twist of a bad bad day - somebody somewhere asked for this - and well, if you are that person and you are reading this, then here you go... engoy.
Common People - William Shatner
Destro's Secret - The Dillinger Escape Plan
Better than Heaven (No Age mix) - Bloc Party
Police - Fucked Up
You know what you are? - Nine Inch Nails
C.I.D. - UK Subs
Glamorous - The Jesus Lizard
Angela - Jarvis Cocker
bad Day in Bodega land - The Untamed
Superconnected - Broken Social Scene
Hold My Hand - UNKLE
Mantaray - Kashmir
A New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull
Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip
Gum - Cornelius
Uprising - Muse
Silver Shoes - Puerto Muerto
Four Corners - Lee Dorsey.
(yeah, I know, could be harder, could be heavier - just don't want to scare off too many people.... yet.)
(Coming soon to www.radio23.org - internet radio - for the alternative listen)
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Number 14 and perhaps the last!
Has it really been 14 weeks since I started this - 3 and a half months ago! oh the memories, the good times bad times, the..... GET ON WITH IT!
Yeah, number 14 goes something like this...
It's all too much - The Beatles
No fear of falling - I am Kloot
I've been lovin you too long - Booker T and the MG's with Boz Scaggs
Scars on land - Kings of Convenience
Dance of Death - Calexico
Lazy Bones - Grand Archives
Daisy (A bicycle made for two) - John Fahey
Turka - Oleg Ponomarev
Woman - The Zombies
Bedlam - Elvis Castello and the Imposters
Midnite and the Amorines - Marybell Katastrophy
Only waiting - The Aliens
Soft the hard way - Death to Frank Ziyanak
David Watts - The Jam
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Dirty Projectors
What the Sun said - John Fahey
And that is your lot for now - thrown in a few John Fahey tracks - discovered him recently and can't get him of the decks (the Calexico track is a cover). Very mellow beginning, bit of a middle avalanche and then drift on into the horizon for an ending - not a walking playlist, perhaps a reader(?).
So I will be starting a new radio show on the 14th of November at radio23.org at 22.00 GMT (hoping to get an earlier slot in the future). More details will follow.
So here you go - Engoy!
(And the Booker T track....well...you'll just have to listen.)
Yeah, number 14 goes something like this...
It's all too much - The Beatles
No fear of falling - I am Kloot
I've been lovin you too long - Booker T and the MG's with Boz Scaggs
Scars on land - Kings of Convenience
Dance of Death - Calexico
Lazy Bones - Grand Archives
Daisy (A bicycle made for two) - John Fahey
Turka - Oleg Ponomarev
Woman - The Zombies
Bedlam - Elvis Castello and the Imposters
Midnite and the Amorines - Marybell Katastrophy
Only waiting - The Aliens
Soft the hard way - Death to Frank Ziyanak
David Watts - The Jam
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Dirty Projectors
What the Sun said - John Fahey
And that is your lot for now - thrown in a few John Fahey tracks - discovered him recently and can't get him of the decks (the Calexico track is a cover). Very mellow beginning, bit of a middle avalanche and then drift on into the horizon for an ending - not a walking playlist, perhaps a reader(?).
So I will be starting a new radio show on the 14th of November at radio23.org at 22.00 GMT (hoping to get an earlier slot in the future). More details will follow.
So here you go - Engoy!
(And the Booker T track....well...you'll just have to listen.)
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