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Posted by admin On February - 4 - 2010

‘Tony, I need you to get them on the radio,’ Simon said. ‘I need to get who on the radio?’ I politely inquired. ‘Westlife, Westlife my new boy band. I couldn’t pretend to be excited, I’d heard he’d signed a band but another boy band? I needed to be convinced they had what it took [...]

Posted by admin On September - 15 - 2009

I can’t believe we’re half way through September! And before I know it I’ll be coming up with another dumb ass comment ‘What happened to 2009?’ I shouldn’t complain though, at least I’ve got things to do and probably enough things to do that’ll pre empt the ‘what happened to 2010 extra dumb ass comment.
I [...]

Posted by admin On October - 27 - 2008

I came across this when I was just checking on a few dates before writing a blog. I was trying to remember the exact date I first saw U2 supporting Wah Heat at the Polytechnic in Manchester with my then lodger Mark Radclifffe.
David Fricke had just written a review of the re issue of U2’s first album, [...]

Posted by admin On October - 25 - 2008

We have a plan, podcasts. Seems I am of mouthaplenty so my friend Darrin from the Innovation Hangar here in the bay of Tampa  is about to resurrect all things TM. Should be a lot of fun, they’ll be a myriad of stories, some whacky, others unbelievable but non of them dull I hope. Well [...]