I don’t experiment with it so much anymore, but I used to quite a lot before. I think I always wanted to find that perfect device that could do everything, and often the only way was with an emulator of some kind.
Author: ashleyelsdon
Storyteller - Poet - Explorer
More “Survivors” coming from Big Finish in 2016
I suppose it was to be expected, but I’m glad to hear it. I really enjoyed the first series of “Survivors” from big finish and I’m looking forward to the next one coming in June of this year, so knowing that there’s another three seasons coming is good news.
Welcome to May
May is always a really busy month for me and this year it’s no different at all. There’s a lot of personal stuff that happens for me in May, and also it’s the month where Palm Sounds has it’s birthday. Traditionally I’ve done quite a bit of celebrating for Palm Sounds birthday but I haven’t really decided what to do as yet.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
I read this ages ago and it made me actually laugh out loud. So I decided that I’d quite like to read it again and perhaps even rediscover the series. I found that there’s a series of audiobooks read by Nigel Planner and I thought I’d give this one a go first. It’s excellent. I wasn’t sure if Nigel Planner’s voice would work for me or not, but actually it really did and I liked it a lot. The audiobook is unabridged too, which I always prefer.
I found that I didn’t actually remember much of the story, in fact I really just remembered a sort of essence or feel of the story, but not the plot itself.
It’s made me want to listen to the whole series now, so next will be “The Colour of Magic”. I might get that next month. Perhaps. We’ll see anyway.
35 years as a solo artist is some achievement
And he’s still making incredible music. Even though I think I have most of the tracks on here there are a few that are new so I’ll get it anyway. I love his sound and I hope that he keeps going for a long long time to come.
My videos: Electroplankton
One of the original forerunners of mobile music making. A game and a musical creation toy or art form. It was beautiful and inspired so much.
And then there was another new album coming from Blancmange
Apparently this will be available at the gigs starting in May. It’s an instrumental album from Neil Arthur and I’m looking forward to hearing it.
Simple Minds at Record Store Day
This is a great track from Simple Minds and another ‘must have’ on my Record Store Day list. So I was really happy to get hold of it.
Generally speaking I preferred their earlier stuff, but actually this was a really good song and a lovely picture disc too in this version.
Blancmange at Record Store Day
This was one of the things I wanted most to get at Record Store Day this year, and I did. Although I had to get it at Sister Ray, who I thought were really good at organising themselves this year.
It was worth it too. A really good 12″.
My videos: Pocket DJ … my first video on YouTube
A very early foray into the world of mobile music, and as such worth posting about again. These apps (although we didn’t call them apps back then) weren’t even real Palm OS apps. They were flash applets that ran inside the flash player on a Sony Palm OS device.
Strange what made sense back then. I’m struggling to think of a modern day equivalent of this.
I am Ashley Elsdon 