Archive for July, 2008
My Friend Tom
It’s been a busy few days. I started the week by spending six hours on the phone with the people at Tom Tom trying to re-activate the map software after it came back from a warranty repair. The perseverance paid off and now it’s back to it’s good self.
I’ve been lucky in that both my [...]
Redesign
A site redesign should be coming in the next couple of weeks. Working along side Ashley we’ve adapted his new Moleskin Theme to go on mattrobertsmusic.com.
It won’t be hugely different. It’ll just be a little cleaner. You’ll see it very soon I hope.
The New Face Of Trad Jazz
How’s this happened. I’m not 100% sure of how my photo got onto the BBC Hereford an Worcester Site but it’s there?!
Check it out. that picture was taken with a group I used to play with called The Big Swing but it’s now managed to be one of those miscellaneous jazz photos that people use. Crazy. I’m [...]
A New Year In Abu Dhabi
Well it looks like I’ll be celebrating this New Year in Abu Dhabi.
A few weeks ago Neil asked if I would go with “Chris Poole and the Shades” for a gig abroad this new years. I met this Soul group a few years ago when Neil asked my to a very unique gig. They needed me [...]
Samsung - You’ve done it Again
With the exception of our instruments there’s no finer friend to modern day musicians than our mobile phones.
With technological advancements the way they are it’s getting increasingly difficult to get a phone that makes and receives calls and text messages. A few years ago I got the Motorola V3x - a brilliant piece of technology. [...]
A Late Post And Long Day
I’ve had an intensive day of pounding through jazz standards with Jonny before he went back to London. We played for a good 5 hours and I carried on practicing those good old half-diminished scales well after he’d gone -Woo-Hoo!
I’ve spent the rest of my evening battling with Eurobusk 07 footage on iMovie before trying [...]
Testing For The Podcast
I’m now waiting for my studio kit to arrive at the store, then I’ll be able to convert my mac into a mini studio, then I’ll be able to record the podcast and publish it on-line. But until then I’m currently in the process of designing a brand new site especially for the podcast and [...]
Jazz Duo
My good pal Jonny is heading up from London tomorrow to work on our duo material.
This is a fairly new project that we are working on together and the majority of our material to date are some of the more laid back jazz standards. We have a few other ideas to try enhance our repertoire [...]
Pirate or Clown?
All for the love of music!!!
Now the question is. Which one of these outfits did I spend the last 48hours gigging in?
As cool as it could be to gig as a pirate it was actually the clown outfit on the right I play in for Indian weddings :P. (The picture on the left was taken [...]
Mobile Blogging = Success
I half expected yesterdays post to be 3 sizes to small and in some obscure font but it seems nice an normal. Mobile blogging has passed it’s first text. I wouldn’t say it’ll be my regular way to post as it’s a little tricky banging out a post on a touch screen phone but it’s [...]
