Category Archives: Created

A Study In Ska-less

One of the Stupids’ biggest bugbears is the insistence of people to use the word ‘ska’ when describing us. I accept that for some people it’s a simple shorthand for ‘a punk band with brass’, but it’s wildly inaccurate.  For the record, the dictionary.com definition of ska describes it as Popular music originating in Jamaica …

June 23, 2006 – 12:00 pm | By tismey | Posted in Stupid, Stupid, Stupid & Steve | Comments Off

Jam In the Jug

Went along to the jam session at our my local, The Jug And Jester, last night. It’s run by Jud, the drummer from The Killer Camels and is pretty well-attended by a real range of musicians. For the second time I took my harmonicas down with me and got up on one song to blow a bit …

June 8, 2006 – 10:52 am | By tismey | Posted in Created | Comments Off

You’re making me Dizzy…

For my 30th birthday, I asked parents / out-laws for money towards getting my good trumpet serviced and upgraded – I have a Bellman trumpet which was an 18th birthday present and i wanted to take it to Andy Taylor in Norwich, the man who made it, to have it tidied up a bit. He’d …

February 27, 2006 – 9:19 am | By tismey | Posted in Created | Comments (2)

Gig listings by podcast

This is very interesting, and a great use for some of these technologies that are currently being dubbed “Web 2.0″ (Lord, I hate that phrase,even though yesterday I found myself using the phrases ‘old web’ and ‘new web’).  Podbop is one of these increasingly-popular web “mashups” (an award-winning one, no less). Powered by listings site Eventful (itself …

February 22, 2006 – 3:09 pm | By tismey | Posted in Bloggery, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid & Steve, Webslinging | Comments Off