The UK’s £71 billion creative sector is one of Britain’s most important industries. Few have had more success in exporting creativity than Nick Allott who I caught up with at this month’s celebration of British commercial creativity – the GREAT …
This is my last blog entry before leaving Mexico. Many things come to my mind about the relationship between our two countries: but probably the one that connects us the most is, and will always be, music. British music is …
Flags across Japan flew at half mast on Sunday 11 March, to commemorate the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that claimed so many thousands of lives. The country paused for a minute's silence at 1446, the exact moment …
When I leave our new office at Daresbury Laboratory, if the traffic on the M56 is snarled up, I occasionally take a short cut through Daresbury village going past All Saints Church. Famously the curate of this church in 1832 …
OK, so that’s an eye-catching title for a blog, but it’s a track on the new album by London-based Emmy the Great, who played a fantastic acoustic set in Tokyo last night with Tim from Ash. I thought the very …
Do you know the lyrics to all the tracks on Two Door Cinema Club’s debut album? No, neither do I, but tens of thousands of young Japanese people do, as I discovered when on my first weekend in Japan I …
It’s somehow appropriate that the day I get back from SXSW, I wake to a piece on BBC Breakfast about an initiative to help musicians called the Music Matters Trustmark. It’s an initiative aimed at acting as a guide to …
I am in Austin, Texas at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive/Film/Music conference and festival. The city is a buzz with creative folk and digerati on their laptops and smart phones, tweeting and meeting and musicians playing in every conceivable …
