Local Hero, one of my favourite films, inspired a travel piece for the Guardian.
'How do you do business with a man who has no door?'
That's another fine beep you've got me in to
Oh hell, April fool and the Guardian. Still, at least it's not covering Coldplay this year.
In Britten's Footsteps
I spoke to Chris Watson, for the Guardian, about his new piece featuring recordings around Aldeburgh, capturing the essence of what Britten would have heard on his "composing walks". Check out the sound sampler, too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/30/benjamin-britten-composing-walks
BFI/Touch Fairy Tales: beautiful, strange and bats
New release from Touch in collaboration with the BFI, featruring a track from me, as well as a performance from the London Snorkelling Team. Also on the Touch website is the one I recorded with Ed Gaughan, featuring him improvising as possibly the three worst audio describers in the history of motion picture.
"Once upon a time, during the belle epoque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called scenes de feeries, or fairy films, was becoming popular thanks to the Pathe Frerer company. In jewel-like colours the films, made to appeal to young and old alike, recreated the theatrical spectacles of the age with their fantastical settings, dancing girls, mythical beasts, supernatural beings and a plethora of stage tricks enhanced by the techniques of the new medium of film."
Harry and Paul
The new season is on, Sunday nights, BBC2. Mentioning this for purely selfish reasons: Joe and I wrote some sketches for it, which I think will be later in the series. However, on last night's show my impersonation of an iPhone finally made it on to national TV. Retirement beckons.