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Mantua Festival Photos

Remarkably I've gotten photos of this weekend's Mantua Festival sorted out much faster than Glastonbury photos. A thoroughly enjoyable festival, which, despite some heavy rain before and on the Friday, there was plenty of sunshine over the next couple of days. I have some amusing sumo wrestling videos to post up as well. Read and […]

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Rathlin Island "Jigs and Rigs" festival 2007

Can't wait for this now. For many years we've been going to the Jigs and Rigs festival on Rathlin Island. This year promises to be brilliant, with us bringing up all sorts of stuff to make lots of loud noises and tasty food. For more information keep an eye on the Force 10 website, and […]

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Beekeeper's Son gets a good mention

A film I was working on for the first half of the year has just shown at the Galway film festival. It's called The Beekeeper's Son and I don't currently have a copy of the finished film to show to you. However, the film did get a good mention in today's copy of the Irish […]

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Who needs a progress display?

As mentioned recently, I have just upgraded my laptop to a new HP 6175b, which came pre-installed with Windows Vista. As a result I will probably be posting some recommendations, rants and feedback with regard to using Windows Vista. Overall, things have run very smoothly, though I am still tweaking and testing the system. However, […]

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Speech recognition hurts the brain

I am attempting to write a post using Windows Vista speech recognition software. I have gone through the tutorial, and I have spent some time trying to work out the various commands.  It has taken a little while for me to get used to this new system.  I assume that the speech recognition will get […]

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Upcoming Gig

I should really be preparing but I decided to check the weather forecast instead… I am playing at a festival in Roscommon, Ireland this Friday. It's a 2 day festival called The Mantua Festival, at which I played last year. It was a really good laugh and I'm looking forward to it this year. However, […]

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Focusrite Saffire LE external power supply

I own a Focusrite Saffire LE, which I use as my main sound card both for my home studio and playing gigs. I've been fairly happy with it and haven't really had any problems (although I had hoped owning a sound card with balanced outputs would have made for a hum/buzz free sound when playing […]

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A reason to make music?

Reason 4 Well, it looks like update time is just around the corner. Propellerheads' Reason 4 is entering beta testing stage and as always I'm looking forward to it immensely. From the Sound on Sound website: Thor, a polyphonic modular synth instrument, is one of the hottest new tools in the Reason 4 rack. It […]

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Vox Hunt: Fireworks

Show us some fireworks. From a trip to Barcelona – where they really love their fireworks! Firework Dragon Mind your hair Firework Umbrella Read and post comments | Send to a friend Other Spectacular Shows! Tiny Update Photos from wonderful Venice Back from holidays Back from Amsterdam Ah the stars

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