Author Archives: Liam

This week saw the annual You Are The Media flagship event, Creator Day, a week of occasions in Poole, centred around a one-day conference with a difference, hosted by Mark Masters at the Lighthouse. I was very honoured to be asked to present one of the ‘village vignette’ 5 minute segments (although I did overrunContinueContinue reading “YATM Creator Day 2024 talk”

I woke up a little earlier than usual yesterday, so decided to go and join the queue for Record Store Day at Square Records in Wimborne.  I used to do this every year, with my earliest arrival time having been pre 4am. In recent years I’ve taken my chances, heading over a few hours afterContinueContinue reading “Record Store Day 2024”

Yes, that is 1,300 Pez dispensers behind me.. Great to talk about community and employee ownership with Mark Masters and Rosie Sherry for the You Are The Media podcast earlier today. Rosie and I are on the bill for Creator Day at the Lighthouse in Poole next Thursday. I’m looking forward to sharing a coupleContinueContinue reading “You Are The Media podcast”

This month had a near single focus; organise and host two events to celebrate Grapevine’s first anniversary as an employee owned business, with just a few weeks notice. Against the odds, we welcomed 60 guests to our home at 19-25 Nuffield Road on Wednesday this week.   Since we made the transition to employee ownership inContinueContinue reading “Grapevine’s 1st EO anniversary”

Fresh from the two back-to-back events at Grapevine on Wednesday, Thursday saw the March edition of You Are The Media Lunch Club. This month’s host was Mo Humphries, who had already delivered a successful spring ’24 Business Futures session, which I attended earlier in March, and she did an equally great job of compèring bothContinueContinue reading “YATM Lunch Club March 2024”

This week our Star Wars fandom took us to an event a little closer to home than usual. The touring exhibit ‘May the Toys Be With You’ made its way to lovely Wimborne, where it has a residency at the Museum of East Dorset from til April 2024.  Having seen photos of the collection at previous stops,ContinueContinue reading “Star Wars memories from generations of fans”

20 years ago I started a record label. I bottled it within a year. I was a student at college and imposter syndrome (even if we didn’t know it to be called that then) kicked in just as things were starting to happen. It took me another 7 years to try again. Talking to BenContinueContinue reading “Ground Zero podcast with Ben Franklin”

Yesterday I headed to London with Tom to see Less Than Jake and Bowling For Soup, on the closing night of their biggest UK tour ever at Hammersmith Apollo. It really is incredible to see two bands from my youth still absolutely smash it two decades later. https://vimeo.com/917242980 We were very lucky to get toContinueContinue reading “You asked for it”

When I ran the Saint November Records, I used to include a handwritten note with each order I sent out. People told me they liked these and in the years since have messaged to say they kept them. Overnight I received a message from someone to share that not only did they keep the note,ContinueContinue reading “Monday morning validation”