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fingertroubleKind of a cool but weird Birthday weekend, like I had a whole week's worth of journeys (different ones) in the same weekend, all clashing and mashing together ;-)
Started very poshly with John taking me to The Neal Street restaurant for my birthday meal. Pretty good, and got to meet Anton Carlucci himself; he must be like 70 now but still makes time to meet his diners. Still has that italian owner/chef ethos, which is cool. Food was mostly good but very overpriced - I mean I'm not a great foodie and I prefer the style of food at a Carlucci's place rather than say The Lindsay House (one of John's favourites, Richard Corrigan's restaurant); but when the latter which is so obviously better is cheaper something is very wrong...
TBH left to my own devices on my own I'd probably have a bag of chips (all this hoity-toity cuisine makes me long for comfort food sometimes, especially after all the fussing you get), but it was a nice birthday meal from John :-D
Then met up with Kirk on Saturday for the Tim and Kirk Radio Clash show podcast - recorded and in the can! Then went and had a nice piggy dinner at the Smollensky's Metro in Charing Cross (can you believe Bodean's in Poland Street, the first choice was full at 6pm?!?) and then onto Duckie...Duckie was brilliant; loads of beautiful bears there, great vibes (apart from one off-his-face tosser who managed to damage me twice, including a large dent in my leg) and there was a real freaky music coincidence with the podcast! The irony magnet strikes again...Live performance from Ya Mum Ya Dad which was very cool, and an odd Arts-Council-style egg man performance. Looked like all Readers Wife's were there too.
They played Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight" which was a good unexpected 70's cheese choice; and place went mad to Buzzcock's "Ever fallen in Love", "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac (great to hear it, I'm a major 60's-70's FM fan since I was wee) and "Open Up" by Leftfield, amongst others. They did play Belinda fucking Carlisle though as their favourite record of ALL TIME! which we sat out in disgust. There's no excuse for Ms Carlisle in original form.
The strangeness? Well today I met Adam Curry as part of this Podshow UK meetup/drinks today just to see what he said.
The guy personally is nice enough, but his ideas about podcasting I don't agree with - throwing money at podcasting won't provide that shift or bigger interest in podcasting, it's more to do with perception and good content. I also don't see how they are going to drive/introduce new listeners to shows without basically becoming old media; they seem focused on the bottom line and advertising, but changing / challenging people's perception of podcasting is where I see the most urgent work...if Podshow does want to become a household name. There's loads of people who've never listened to a podcast still, and probably don't know they exist; enticing those people is where it's at, not conglomerating the existing audience.
Looks like Podshow UK is a reality though...and I challenged him over mashups being a fad and him dropping them after the aggro - I understand his reasons; but he denied saying the fad thing. I need to search through the archives of Radio Clash but he definitely said it!
And apparently he's not heard of Radio Clash, which is funny since I used to send him mashups and promos he both played many moons ago, and I've got several mutual friends; and Madge has mentioned me several times on various podcasts.
Whatevaahhh!
Great to meet loads of britcaster people, like Adrian Pegg, loads of podcasters who all seemed to be called Paul (including PodcastPaul) and finally meet MK from Not Your Usual Bollocks podcast, amongst others (sorry crap with remembering names). Sadly Rob and Jon from Top of the Pods weren't there (Rob is in Vegas!), but Scotttga from Night Nurse Show and Kirk were there, so we had a blast even though it seemed very geekoid and muted, and got very drunk and outrageous which seemed appropriate. And I then went and bothered Mr Curry. Also appropriate...and Scott wore his Keith and the Girl shirt then went to talk to Adam, and we both asked about this recent 'faggot' Madge thing.
Kirk wore a nametag with Roger Smalls on it, as others did, so he wrote 'The REAL Roger Smalls' on it. Since he's actually from Guildford (as I was) he's a more likely candidate than teh copyists.
We ended the night up in the King Arms sheltering from the karaoake downstairs.
Started very poshly with John taking me to The Neal Street restaurant for my birthday meal. Pretty good, and got to meet Anton Carlucci himself; he must be like 70 now but still makes time to meet his diners. Still has that italian owner/chef ethos, which is cool. Food was mostly good but very overpriced - I mean I'm not a great foodie and I prefer the style of food at a Carlucci's place rather than say The Lindsay House (one of John's favourites, Richard Corrigan's restaurant); but when the latter which is so obviously better is cheaper something is very wrong...
TBH left to my own devices on my own I'd probably have a bag of chips (all this hoity-toity cuisine makes me long for comfort food sometimes, especially after all the fussing you get), but it was a nice birthday meal from John :-D
Then met up with Kirk on Saturday for the Tim and Kirk Radio Clash show podcast - recorded and in the can! Then went and had a nice piggy dinner at the Smollensky's Metro in Charing Cross (can you believe Bodean's in Poland Street, the first choice was full at 6pm?!?) and then onto Duckie...Duckie was brilliant; loads of beautiful bears there, great vibes (apart from one off-his-face tosser who managed to damage me twice, including a large dent in my leg) and there was a real freaky music coincidence with the podcast! The irony magnet strikes again...Live performance from Ya Mum Ya Dad which was very cool, and an odd Arts-Council-style egg man performance. Looked like all Readers Wife's were there too.
They played Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight" which was a good unexpected 70's cheese choice; and place went mad to Buzzcock's "Ever fallen in Love", "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac (great to hear it, I'm a major 60's-70's FM fan since I was wee) and "Open Up" by Leftfield, amongst others. They did play Belinda fucking Carlisle though as their favourite record of ALL TIME! which we sat out in disgust. There's no excuse for Ms Carlisle in original form.
The strangeness? Well today I met Adam Curry as part of this Podshow UK meetup/drinks today just to see what he said.
The guy personally is nice enough, but his ideas about podcasting I don't agree with - throwing money at podcasting won't provide that shift or bigger interest in podcasting, it's more to do with perception and good content. I also don't see how they are going to drive/introduce new listeners to shows without basically becoming old media; they seem focused on the bottom line and advertising, but changing / challenging people's perception of podcasting is where I see the most urgent work...if Podshow does want to become a household name. There's loads of people who've never listened to a podcast still, and probably don't know they exist; enticing those people is where it's at, not conglomerating the existing audience.
Looks like Podshow UK is a reality though...and I challenged him over mashups being a fad and him dropping them after the aggro - I understand his reasons; but he denied saying the fad thing. I need to search through the archives of Radio Clash but he definitely said it!
And apparently he's not heard of Radio Clash, which is funny since I used to send him mashups and promos he both played many moons ago, and I've got several mutual friends; and Madge has mentioned me several times on various podcasts.
Whatevaahhh!
Great to meet loads of britcaster people, like Adrian Pegg, loads of podcasters who all seemed to be called Paul (including PodcastPaul) and finally meet MK from Not Your Usual Bollocks podcast, amongst others (sorry crap with remembering names). Sadly Rob and Jon from Top of the Pods weren't there (Rob is in Vegas!), but Scott
tga from Night Nurse Show and Kirk were there, so we had a blast even though it seemed very geekoid and muted, and got very drunk and outrageous which seemed appropriate. And I then went and bothered Mr Curry. Also appropriate...and Scott wore his Keith and the Girl shirt then went to talk to Adam, and we both asked about this recent 'faggot' Madge thing. Kirk wore a nametag with Roger Smalls on it, as others did, so he wrote 'The REAL Roger Smalls' on it. Since he's actually from Guildford (as I was) he's a more likely candidate than teh copyists.
We ended the night up in the King Arms sheltering from the karaoake downstairs.
