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Going Global in New Zealand
I’ve been back in New Zealand this past week speaking at an event called Going Global. It’s been great to spend time in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch with some really lovely people, talk about...
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So… how old are you now, Dubber?
Today is my birthday. This time 8 years ago to the day, I was leaving Auckland airport with my family. We were heading to the UK to live and we had no idea what was waiting for us when we got there....
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Tomorrow is the first teaching day of the academic year, and for the first time ever, I only have postgraduate students. It’ll be the first time since I started teaching at universities (about this...
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Pining for the fjords
I’m in Stavanger, Norway. It’s Nordic Music Week and I was invited to come out and talk at a seminar on a panel about local music scenes. Stavanger is interesting when it comes to that sort of thing....
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The boy is eating an apple
I’m learning Spanish. I’m just beginning, but I’m quite pleased with my progress so far. A little bit each day, and this time next year, I’ll be able to ask where the bank is, order a cup of coffee...
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Budapest for work
Sometimes the cool and interesting things that my colleagues do at work spill over and I get some of the benefits. As a result, I was in Budapest last week for the European project that Paul Long...
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Now available in real
A while back, I started drawing sad cats. I was playing with a drawing & painting app on the iPad, and they turned out to be the only thing I could really convincingly draw in a way that resembled...
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Local photo walk
This morning, Jake and I decided to go for a walk. It was foggy and the leaves had been starting to fall, so we thought we’d take our cameras. We had just planned to go around the block, but before...
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Where in the world is Andrew Dubber?
One of the problems with having lots of things to blog about is having no time at all in which to blog them. It’s been an incredibly busy time, and I’ve been moving around a lot… Graz I’m actually...
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Retreat northwards
I’m writing a book about radio at the moment. In fact, it’s fair to say that’s almost all I’m doing right now. The deadline is the end of this year, and I am nowhere close to finishing. So I took...
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Sabbatical
Hello from New Zealand. The intensive book writing of the past couple of months has finally come to an end, I’ve submitted my Radio in the Digital Age manuscript to the publisher, and I am spending a...
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Rangitoto
This is my fifth visit to New Zealand in the eight years since I started living in the UK, and the first time I’ve really had some time to just treat it as a holiday. Usually, I’m here to work. So I...
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Bit of a thing for the birds
As part of my “get out and see a bit of Auckland with outsider’s eyes” mission, I popped along to the Auckland War Memorial Museum yesterday afternoon. There are all sorts of exhibits across multiple...
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Right… where were we?
I’m back – suitably rested and refreshed. I’m in Birmingham and I start back at work today. Things may resume. I’m realistic enough not to aim for normality, but I’m ready for a bit of routine again....
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New book – The 360 Deal
A collection of genuinely helpful advice to people starting out in the music industry. After several months of sending emails to friends and colleagues across the music industries, gathering articles...
View ArticleTweaks and so forth
I’ve been having a play around with the design of this blog this afternoon, which I do from time to time. I’m not 100% happy with it yet – but I’m more happy with it than I have been for a while, so...
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The alibi
I’ve always liked going for walks. It’s a nice thing to do. Recently, I’ve graduated to the kind of walking more usually described as “hiking” (otherwise known as “rambling” here in the UK, or...
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Everybody goes away. Everyone’s still here.
When I was thirty, I ran a jazz record label from home. There’s an awful lot of wonderful memories from that time in my life, especially if you overlook the whole financially catastrophic business side...
View ArticleSurprise Africa
I was invited to Uganda today. I suspect somebody pulled out or became unavailable at the last minute, but as it turns out, I’ll be at Un-Convention 49: Doadoa, East African Performing Arts Market ’13...
View ArticleOn being on the computer
There’s a kind of a revelation moment that hits you when you suddenly realise that you experience the world in quite a different way to other people. Where you see things from their perspective just...
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