Author Archives: Liam

In a previous article I wrote about finding alternatives to Amazon. As a result of reading it one of my LinkedIn connections DID buy something she’d usually order from Amazon elsewhere.  Does this make me an influencer, or an activist? I’m going to see if I can get lightning to strike twice and influence you all to want pizza forContinueContinue reading “The tasty chaos of pizza marketing”

Back to Vinilo in Southampton for another in-store, this time it was Pale Waves, who just released their third album Unwanted on Friday. Fingers crossed for a good chart position for them later this week.  Before their set I found an arcade right around the corner from Vinilo that has four pinball machines as partContinueContinue reading “Pinball and Pale Waves”

This is the story of my unlikely entry point to NFTs (spoiler: they’re a right faff). I was talking with NFT champion, Josh Williams at a You Are The Media event and he suggested that a practical use of NFT, beyond owning expensive digital artworks, would be a more secure form of e-ticket. Q: “Stop the bus. What’s an NFT?”ContinueContinue reading “A pint of NFT”

Last week was a fun one, with two great gigs of very different sizes.  On Wednesday I got to see Beabadoobee play an instore acoustic show at Vinilo Record Store in Southampton. Congrats to Bea on making it to number 4 in the UK album charts (I bought two copies 💁🏼). Check out some ofContinueContinue reading “Women in Music (III)”

Physical tickets are, of course, a dying medium. Across the 20 years of my gigography there are probably two gigs where I didn’t have ticket for every one that I did. When it came to booking events after starting to write up my memories from past shows, I found myself even more keen to getContinueContinue reading “The worst £3 (plus postage) I’ve spent so far this year”

To Edinburgh and back, via Bourton-on-the-water, Whitchurch, Keswick, Newcastle, Seaham, York and Leicester.