I’m pretty much closed for business in Singapore. Between now and when the removalists come to pack up The Sugar Shack, my studio here, I will only be doing my regular The Society For Film podcasts and finishing off my album, You Can’t Deny What’s Inside. So, this will be my final post regarding the [...] Read full article
MusicMatters 2013 – The Showcase
Last week I posted a review of this year’s MusicMatters conference. Now, it’s time to focus on the live showcase, which this year was bigger than ever. MusicMattersLive took over the main square and six venues in Clarke Quay for three nights of original live music, featuring bands from Asia, Europe and North America. Unlike [...] Read full article
MusicMatters 2013 – The Conference
Last week we had the MusicMatters conference here in Singapore. Actually, the conference has grown so big, it now goes by the name of AllThatMatters and this year there were five main components, MusicMatters, MusicMattersLive, the MusicMatters Academy, DigitalMatters and the newly added YouTubeFanfest. I won’t bore you with numbers, but it was an expansive [...] Read full article
MusicMatters Quick Update
For the past two days I’ve been in conference and live music mode, attending the MusicMatters conference here in Singapore. Tuesday was a day of talks and panels about digital media and online video. Yesterday was a whole day of music industry talk, including an interview with Johnny Wright, manager of Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, Justin [...] Read full article
The Society For Film – An Update
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned by side-project, The Society For Film. This is a collaboration with Hong Kong based film reviewer, James Marsh, who is Asian Editor for Twitchfilm and programmes for Fantastic Fest and writes for Verite Magazine and Cathay Pacific’s inflight Discovery Magazine. The core of the project is now regular [...] Read full article
80s Music – Songs Of Disenchantment
My daughter is doing a school project dealing with music’s social impact. The students are being asked to pick a decade and research songs from that period, while looking at the social issues people faced at that time. She chose to look at the 80s and her preliminary inquiry brought up the cold war, nuclear [...] Read full article
10 Things I’m Looking Forward To At This Year’s MusicMatters
Next week, Asia’s premier Music Industry conference hits Singapore again. As always MusicMatters promises to be bigger and better than ever. OK, they always promise that, but it certainly looks to be true again, as the conference continues to expand and diversify its programme. This will be my fourth time at the conference and it [...] Read full article
You Can’t Deny – Update
Last week I announced You Can’t Deny What’s Inside, my first solo commercial music release. I’m thankful for the positive and encouraging response from so many of you. I’m writing now as a way to reply to some of the questions I’ve received. At the time I called You Can’t Deny What’s Inside an EP, [...] Read full article
You Can’t Deny What’s Inside
You Can’t Deny What’s Inside is, amazingly, my first commercial release as a solo musician. I say amazingly because these days, musicians make albums right at the start of their career, rather than after years of writing and performing, which was the norm when I started out. But, I digress. You Can’t Deny What’s Inside [...] Read full article
Esperanza Spalding Live In Singapore
Last night Singapore was treated to a concert of the highest quality by one the brightest sparks in the music world, Esperanza Spalding. Touring on the back of her recent album, Radio Music Society and here as part of the Mosaic Music Festival, Esperanza and her full 12 piece band brought the Esplanade Theatre to [...] Read full article