Some downtime at home through the Christmas break and subsequent ‘cold snap’ gave me a welcome opportunity to catch up on all of the things I hadn’t made time for throughout a busy autumn and start to winter. I’ve been cataloguing Pez and other collections (learn more here), catching up on comics, saved articles, TVContinueContinue reading “The life and death of optimism II”
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A banner year for shows
Live music has been a big part of my life for 20 years. I wrote recently about my first gig in May 2003. It’s hard to believe now that in 2020 I didn’t go to a single show. When they started up again in Autumn 2021 I managed to squeeze a few in. Last yearContinueContinue reading “A banner year for shows”
YATM Christmas Game Nite
https://vimeo.com/894107877 I was back at Foundry again on Friday for one more YATM event to close the year out, GAME NITE. I set this up in 2022, with Mark’s encouragement, as a social event with a focus. A quiz that’s more of a game show than standard pub fare. See it for yourself in theContinueContinue reading “YATM Christmas Game Nite”
YATM Lunch Club November 2023
The final You Are The Media lunch club of the year was expertly hosted by Lee Taylor, with a special guest, all the way from the other side of the planet, Trevor Young. I’ve really enjoyed the lunch clubs since they returned this year in July, back to their classic format, at the new venueContinueContinue reading “YATM Lunch Club November 2023”
A tale of two decades
It’s been great to reconnect with Bournemouth and Poole College this Autumn. Back in September I went along to Stuart Palmer’s conference event for the Digital and Creative Industries at Treehouse Digital and was delighted to be reunited with my former lecturers, Mike Bush and Rob Forrester. Last month I had a lot of funContinueContinue reading “A tale of two decades”
Dead Club serendipity
A strange thing happened to me on the train to the YATM x Espresso+ ‘MATEY’ event in Bath this month. I had a playlist of new and recent albums to listen to, one of which was Nothing But Thieves. I knew they were due to be playing a rescheduled gig in Bournemouth the following week,ContinueContinue reading “Dead Club serendipity”
Walking the talk
We don’t get to choose the limit for our mental health. So many of the appliances in my house stop working, seemingly out of the blue. In my experience mental health has effected me in much the same way. I’m surprised when it catches up with me. In Autumn 2012 I was driving to workContinueContinue reading “Walking the talk”
Employee ownership workshop
My Grapevine colleague Paul and I were invited to an event hosted by our client Salad at their office space on Poole Quay. Like Grapevine, Salad are an employee owned business, having made the jump a couple of years ago. Photo credit: Arabella Lewis-Smith Arabella Lewis-Smith and Harry Pocknell from Salad are running a workshopContinueContinue reading “Employee ownership workshop”
KIGH ‘Smart Casual’ 15th anniversary show
Tom and I travelled across the bridge to Wales to see Kids In Glass Houses conclude their reunion tour at The Great Hall in Cardiff. We worked with the band in 2012 to bring their debut album Smart Casual to vinyl for the first time (followed by Dirt and In Gold Blood in 2014). https://vimeo.com/879534790ContinueContinue reading “KIGH ‘Smart Casual’ 15th anniversary show”
Eight Arch talk at Foundry
Last night I went to a fantastic talk given by Steve Farrell from Wimborne’s Eight Arch Brewing Co., hosted by fellow beer enthusiast Nigel Jones and the Barclays Eagle Labs team at Foundry in Poole. I’ve been drinking at Eight Arch through the various iterations of their Friday night tap room sessions, since I firstContinueContinue reading “Eight Arch talk at Foundry”
Guardian of the YATMxy
For this month’s You Are The Media Lunch Club the batton pased from Mark Masters to Christophe Stourton. I got a little distracted after the event (the Dorset Business Awards ceremony was that evening) and missed my chance to commend Christophe for a stellar job of hosting what is always a wonderfully unruly event. InContinueContinue reading “Guardian of the YATMxy”
The Best Place to Work
We only went and won the award didn’t we! When I returned to work after a week off at the beginning of the month I’d fallen out of sync with the momentum of the lead up to the Dorset Business Awards. I was more focused on scrambling around to get the outfit components I neededContinueContinue reading “The Best Place to Work”
Liam Toms 