I’m not a filmmaker but occasionally I’ll read a book that I can picture so well I’m tempted to rush out, buy a camera and enrol in film school. I’d actually started thinking about how to turn this story into a viable screenplay when I found out that David Mitchell had just used the entire […]

I know from experience that if I’ve produced or mixed an album, no matter how happy I am with it or how much I love the songs or the artist , once it’s finished I can never just LISTEN to it for pleasure. Every note and instrument part reminds me which microphone I used, where […]

“Sometimes thinking up schemes is better than actually carrying them out”. So says Elvis Costello, born Declan Macmanus. It’s the sort of sentence that can only be satisfying as a philosophy if you have in fact carried out the vast majority of your schemes. There’s an element of absolution to any autobiography. With some memoirs […]