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Portico live at Rough Trade East

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I’ve been enjoying listening to their new album today on Spotify as it was only released today, and so I popped along to Rough Trade East to see them tonight at Rough Trade East. I’m always impressed with the sound there. It’s a nice little venue for small gigs, and I’ve to a few there already this year.

However, what I’m really looking forward to at Rough Trade next is Record Store day! More about that later.

Congratulations to Artiphon with their funding for Instrument 1

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It’s great news and very well deserved in my opinion. I’ve been in touch with Artiphon for a long time now and I’m a big fan of what they’re doing and also very much about how they’re going about it too.

They’ve been very sensible in terms of how they’ve responded to feedback about the Instrument 1 and I think that they’ve made a lot of good choices about how to react to users and the wider community. I think that’s very much reflected in the success that they’ve had in this campaign

Awaiting the new album from Portico

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I really them as the Portico Quartet too. In fact I saw them live a couple of times, first at WOMAD a few years ago and then at the Roundhouse too. The WOMAD gig was actually amazing. They played for an hour in the big red tent and I thought the sound was incredible. I’d never really heard them before, but after WOMAD I was hooked. So I went along to see them at the Roundhouse, and sadly was a bit disappointed by that performance.

So when I heard that they were playing over at Rough Trade East and had a new album coming out I was intrigued. Also, it seems that they’re no longer the Portico Quartet, but now just Portico. I’ve been listening to their new tracks on Spotify for a while and I’m getting quite into them. It’s different from the old sound although I think that there are traces of it there, but I do like it.

So I’m going along tomorrow to see what it’s like and grab a copy of the album too. I’ll post some thoughts and pictures if I get any good ones.

Big Finish have they’re Doctor Who licence extended to 2020

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Which is excellent news from a selfish perspective in the main. I’m just really pleased to know that they’re going to continue to make excellent stories for Doctor Who. I think that they probably make the best stories around right now and I’d really like that to continue.

Pebble Time is now funded

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Well that was a very impressive campaign, especially with the Apple Watch right on its heels, it raised even more money than the first Pebble watch too. I’m especially interested in seeing where their smartStraps initiative leads. I think that it’s a great idea to make the watch strap itself a more responsive and useful part of the device.