IKTOMS Wired Festival IV – Sunday 26th September

A heads up: IKTOMS Wired Festival is back for its 4th incarnation, this this Sunday 26th September at The World’s End in Finsbury Park. I started Wired Festival way back in September 2007 – I ran two floors of entertainment at the Cross Kings – and have been running it yearly ever since. This will [...]

Johnny Flynn Session

I kind of forgot to mention – I produced the video for Johnny Flynn’s first single off the new album – ‘Kentucky Pill’! It was a last minute affair – the previous idea and production team fell through, and so I pulled together an awesome team of lovely people, and we made the video below: [...]

Bella Union on the London Eye

I’ve been wanting to be able to post this here for a long time, but it’s been taking FOREVER to get it through the edit suite at work… (this is one of those things you don’t complain about – it’s a luxury problem to have too much to do in our industry). Anyhow, only a [...]

Station Sessions

So I’ve been running the production on a new set of sessions for St Pancras Station, called, oddly enough, The Station Sessions. It’s been a lot of fun to set up and get going the last three weeks, and oddly enough there’s been a huge amount of overlap with the artists I used to book [...]

Nina Nastasia

We’re in session with the wonderful Nina Nastasia today – can’t wait to film it. The rockfeedback sessions are my favourite thing to film, especially when it’s just one person, and especially if that person is as talented as Nina. We spend most of our time, before the act arrives, perfecting minute details. We’re contstantly [...]

IKTOMS Cornwall

Just over a year and a half ago now I organised what is probably still the silliest (and most awesome) event I’ve yet to be involved with. I took 11 singer-songwriters (and a poet!) on tour in a minibus, starting with a gig in London, moving up through York to then do a three-night residency [...]

“All About The Vocals”

I’ve been to two gigs just recently that have been ‘powered’, as it were, by a front-woman with a voice in the calibre that verges on ‘ridiculous’. What’s been confusing me is the reaction to those voices. People seem to be fine with women either having softly-softly vocals, throaty whispers, delicate breaking high notes etc… [...]

Spotify Playlist

I’ve just made my first Spotify playlist! It’s for the bands from the last blog. If any of those verbose and praiseful descriptions I wrote interested you, then check out a couple of songs from each of the bands here: http://bit.ly/2010spotify The only ones mysteriously missing are Surfer Blood. Their album isn’t available in the [...]

New Bands of 2010

I think most people write these at the end of the year before, to appear more prophetic should the recommendations come through. Having just made a few compilation CDs for friends, however, I thought I’d share a couple of the bands that are exciting me at the moment, a couple of months into 2010.

ToneMatrix

I’ve been having waaaaay to much fun with this to not pass it along… I obviously need to get myself some kind of sampler. But then, I want every gadget I come across, and I’d probably never use it. For now I’ll stick to the online version… Give it a shot for some musical divertisment [...]