Another mad busy week getting everything ready for the book to go to the printers. Everyone seems to have done their bit, well almost til I interfere and make some changes. Call me a pain in the ass but whenever I see something that can be better I want to make it better so it’s [...]
On September - 28 - 2009
categories: About The Engine Room, Creativity, Insights Collection, Inspiration, Motivation, Tony Michaelides
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 [...]
categories: About The Engine Room, Artist Development, Insights Collection, Interviews, People, Places, Tony Michaelides
On August - 18 - 2009
Whoa, where does the time go? Moving home, relocating and having your world stuffed in a cupboard is hardly conducive for writing and least of all writing anything vaguely interesting. So I resisted the temptation to grumble about it all on here. Instead I selectively chose my friends and now I need to contact them [...]
On August - 1 - 2009
And so to new beginnings. Happily settled in to my new place I feel alive. Unpacking was easy, I gave nearly everything I had away. I think I’m going through my Brian Eno minimalist period and yes, less is definitely more. Or more or less. I think it’s the perfect inspiration for what I’m doing [...]
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 December - 9 - 2008
I started to write the last couple of blogs about Leonard Cohen and I thought, why stop there, he’s 74 years old so there’s plenty to say about the man. Leonard Cohen must live forever, we should always have him around.
I did a radio show for many years, and in many years interviewed many people [...]
On December - 7 - 2008
Leonard Cohen is a marvel. As I embraced music, and all it was about to thrust upon me his debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen sounded like nothing I had ever heard. I liked it in 1967 and I like it just as much now, 41 years later. To call it a timeless classic would [...]
On December - 7 - 2008
I wonder if music will evoke the same memories for those growing up today as it did for me and my generation, and the ones before me for that matter. I can look back over forty plus years and pinpoint albums that were crucial to my youth, adolescence and everything before, after and in between. [...]
On December - 4 - 2008
OK it’s time to own up, writing about bygone days makes me pick up books written from that period, and fortunately I have a nice collection of freebies I managed to blag from friends who also happen to be authors! I know it’s the wrong way round, I should really brush up on the facts [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, People, Places, Tony Michaelides
On December - 1 - 2008
I was just talking with an old old friend who tracked me down on Facebook ( really no one does get out of there alive ! )He was asking me if I still lived at The Edge, when in fact I told him I hadn’t even lived in the country for 5 years and The [...]
