29 October 2024
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On a recent episode of the SBL podcast, the question was asked whether In-Ear monitors are the way of the future and if that means there is no more need for bass amps? Like most SBL podcasts, the title is … Continue reading
13 April 2023
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Jane and I were up very early yesterday to walk to nearby Dishley Pool for a dawn chorus walk led by the RSPB. Compared to later in the day, the weather was glorious and the brightening sky was wonderfully clear. … Continue reading
4 October 2020
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Today was our church’s Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM). Normally this would have happened at the end of March – the week after lockdown fell. It could be well past next March before things are back to normal, updated Diocesan … Continue reading
3 March 2020
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One of the things I spotted at church this past weekend was that the sound guy had to come over and turn on one of the vocalist’s microphones. He’d asked if it was switched on and they’d looked but thought … Continue reading
7 February 2020
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One of the challenges I’m working on in my new church is getting a suitable balance of volumes during the music. The layout of the church has the band in a kind of ‘shoebox’ that comes out of one of … Continue reading
8 October 2019
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I recently realised that we were running a bit short of coat hangers so I bought a set online, which arrived today. These are black-finished aluminium and my first impression, as I put them in the wardrobe, was that they … Continue reading
18 November 2018
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In a break from routine, today saw us popping down to North West Kent to attend a memorial service in the afternoon. It is quite a while since I was last back in that area and it was interesting to … Continue reading
23 April 2017
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I have to confess that I thought “playing on the pink trombone” sounded like a seedy euphemism it turns out to be a website that lets you explore how we produce sounds with our mouths and related systems. You can … Continue reading
15 April 2017
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My electric guitar, a Hamer Californian 4, is in the Fender Stratocaster lineage – three pickups, a five way selector switch and a classic rock guitar sound. However, it is quite different from the other classic rock guitar sound, the … Continue reading
6 July 2015
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Yesterday’s gig with The String Project generally went very well. I was particularly delighted with our performance of Stravinsky’s Tango; there were still times where it felt like I was in freefall but I seemed to be falling into the … Continue reading