The Gnomes, Vaudeville Entertainers By Nic Price on 18 July 2011 — 1 min read The Gnomes, Vaudeville entertainers (photo on Flickr) Almost a hundred years ago, my great grandparents (my father’s father’s parents) were in The Gnomes, a group of London-based vaudeville entertainers. My great-grandfather, Edgar Sidney (standing on the right in this photograph), directed the group. He wrote the words for the “humorous song” I’m going to grow a... More
Double espresso – Last.fm By Nic Price on 11 December 2008 — 1 min read Inspired by Tom Coombs’s recent “Have you seen…?” post, here are some of the things I’ve been banging on about recently over a double espresso. First… Last.fm Last FM Last.fm plays you music while you’re online. It can create your own personalised radio station based the music you like, using its audioscrobbler music recommendation system.... More
Musical inspiration By Nic Price on 21 April 2008 — 1 min read TED Talk: Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head Via Joe Lazarus via Scobleizer on Twitter. More
Sounds like it should be a blast By Nic Price on 6 June 2007 — 1 min read If you’ll pardon the pun. I’ve just been sent this info about an event taking place in July. I’ve added in the link showing where the venue is on Google maps. Title: Gas Organ exhibition Venue: The Sassoon Gallery Location: Blenheim Grove, Peckham Rye, London SE15 Date: 16th – 18th July Time: Midday – 9pm... More
Plug for Francis Rodino’s August 18th gig in Putney By Nic Price on 27 July 2006 — 1 min read My friend Francis Rodino and his band are playing at the Half Moon in Putney at 8pm on August 18th. Entry: £5 / £4 with flyer (or if you follow this link) You can hear some of his songs at www.myspace.com/francisrodino I think he’s really got something. More
Cyclists watch out! By Nic Price on 8 February 2006 — 1 min read This public information film via Kathy Sierra’s superb Creating Passionate Users More
Pazzazz Music taster session this weekend in Dulwich By Nic Price on 31 January 2006 — 1 min read This sounds like fun Pazzazz Music is led by professional performers and educators from the UK’s top arts establishments. Pazzazz Music is the only music club for these ages of 4 to 7 that embraces conventional music training but also uses the children’s creativity as a core educational principle. During each 6 week course the... More
Driving to By Nic Price on 11 May 2005 — 1 min read The Killers – Hot Fuss Massive tracks – remind me of The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs and U2 Athlete – Tourist Deptford’s Coldplay (ducks for cover) Hothouse Flowers – Home Probably more famous for their 1980s hit “Don’t Go” from a different album. “I can see clearly now” and “Movies”, two tracks back to back... More