I just got a note on my Facebook page from an old pal and colleague at Piccadilly Radio David Dunne attaching a clip from a bygone era. Oh how I laughed, it’s funny how you never remember how you looked. And then I found myself saying, ‘I wonder what ever happened to that jacket?’ All [...]
Archive for the ‘Journey Thru The Past’ Category
On March - 3 - 2010
On March - 29 - 2009
Another excerpt from the book if for no other reason than someone asked me. Writing all this stuff up has brought back a flood of memories so I’m reaching out to a bunch of friends to help me remember the half of it. It’s a time I’m desperate not to lose any of them!
Book should [...]
categories: Events, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, Opportunity, People, Places, Tony Michaelides
On January - 29 - 2009
I woke this morning expecting to see some replies to my e-mails from friends and colleagues, I log on, nothing! I grumbled to my mother who is staying with me at present while cursing the internet. Bless, she offered to take me in to town to see if I could buy the internet.
The cable guy, [...]
On January - 27 - 2009
I’ve been thinking it might be time to give radio another shot. I did my first show in 1984 and my last in 1996 so that makes 12 years on and now 12 years off, so 2009 could spell a new beginning. We all know how radio has become crap and the only good radio [...]
categories: Archives, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, People, The Last Radio Program, Tony Michaelides
On January - 26 - 2009
I’ve been moving furniture around and I’m knackered. I’ve lost half the stuff I put in places to make it easier to find them but I suppose it’s bound to get easier when I eventually do find them. Nevertheless good things happen and Facebook once more re introduces figures from the past and more glorious [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Creativity, Journey Thru The Past, Managing Creativity, Opportunity, PR, People, Tony Michaelides
On January - 22 - 2009
I never finished telling you about the Bickershaw festival. That’s the problem I’ll start something, something else will come in to my head and I’ll think ‘must have a rant about that.’ And before you know it’s gone! Now’s the time methinks to go through the blogs and see exactly what I need to [...]
On January - 16 - 2009
We need stars, we don’t have them any more and the ones that we do call stars are different, they’re train wrecks, they’re misfits, they’re tortured ‘artists’. But Lindsay, Britney, Madonna even, aren’t tortured like Janis was, Jimi Hendrix or Brian Jones were they are just people craving attention. It doesn’t matter if it’s they [...]
On January - 10 - 2009
Ridiculous, insane! Here I am slumbering in my lounge, lounging in my slumber writing blog number whatever and I’m being savaged by biting insects. For God’s sake it’s January and while the world freezes it’s ass off I’m being bitten! Florida is nice, don’t get me wrong but the insects never get a day off, [...]
On December - 31 - 2008
When I was a salesman reaching targets were never a problem, people buying music loved music and the people selling music loved music. Customers would go to their favorite store and talk to the people behind the counter before they bought anything, they’d compare notes and ask their advice on what they thought was worth [...]
On December - 29 - 2008
Where I worked as a salesman in the 70’s, Transatlantic Records they used to have an incentive at Christmas, a drinks offer….like retailers needed an incentive! Buy music and get drunk. It was very hard to entice them, they were going to buy the stuff anyway so why not tempt them in to buying more [...]
