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Really suffering for your art

Everyone says music is getting more physical again. We continue to get our daily sounds from ever more insubstantial sources, floating above us like those glittering landscapes in Neuromancer, but we’re going to more concerts and festivals than ever and buying more stuff while we’re at it (merch. fancy limited editions. Even musical instruments are [...]

Posted 06 August 2010 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Taking a tin opener to a BBC meeting

There’s a big quarterly departmental meeting at BBC Audio & Music Interactive (which is where I work). We call it the ‘departmental’ and it’s always a pretty big deal – the magnificent Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House is the venue and it goes on all morning, spilling out into surrounding conference rooms for smaller sessions. [...]

Posted 03 August 2010 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Five nines? No nines at all, more like

A very long time ago I ran a web-based email service (allow me to tell you about it one day). It was moderately successful and, before the latter unpleasantness it had well over a million users and substantial traffic and brand awareness. I learnt one really big lesson from that particular experience, though: never run [...]

Posted 30 May 2008 † Steve Bowbrick § Twitter ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

What is Speechification?

Here are some words I wrote to prompt me in a meeting that Russell and Roo and myself went to at the BBC yesterday. It was like the nicest pitch meeting you’ve ever been to. Lots of important and interesting people from the Internet side of the BBC asked many questions and made many suggestions: [...]

Posted 23 May 2008 † Steve Bowbrick § Speechification ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Radio stars

Posted 08 April 2003 † Steve Bowbrick § Media ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,