14/30: It burns well!

My usual spiel about Hubert von Goisern, the Austrian musician whose website I founded and have run for 11 years, always includes an explanation about how it’s difficult to give an impression of his popularity and success in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, because their charts are flooded with British and American artists. So the usual [...]

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2/30: Peaks

Of course there’s always the danger that I’ll get halfway through this month of posting and run out of things to say. Suzy tells me that we’ll make sure to Do Exciting Stuff to avoid that happening though. The first half of the month shouldn’t be too difficult, as I’m spending several days of it [...]

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7 Days: Day 3 – Going to Sittingbourne

Another work day, this time heading to Sittingbourne with John to do some filming. The lady we filmed was quite a pro, used to speaking in front of a camera and accustomed to all the nonsense of walking past the camera as if it’s not there, or filming a visitor arriving outside a door and [...]

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Landsberg am Lech

Our hotel in Germany wasn’t in the same town as the concert venue, not least because the concert venue was in a settlement smaller than our little village and didn’t have any places to stay. Well, unless you’re the artist of course and then you get a bed in the castle. Instead we took a [...]

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Back from Kaltenberg

We’re back from a super weekend in Germany seeing Hubert von Goisern and guests at his festival in Kaltenberg. Our friend Elli took this paparazzi shot of us in front of the barrier, where we spent the two days, singing, cheering, dancing in our seats and, of course, photographing. I’ve been going non-stop since our [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – Enough quantum physics for now

I spent today at Reading University with John, assisting him on a shoot for a video to illustrate an element of quantum computing: that atoms can be in two different places at the same time and my head can explode if I try and contemplate that any further. According to the professor for whom this [...]

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I’m considering being professionally lit at all times

We’re doing some updates to KipperTie‘s website at the moment, including adding me to the contact page. Fernie and John already have Harry Potter-esque profiles that come to life and I needed to be filmed for mine. So after filming students for the West Kent Schools Themed Book Award on Friday John headed here and [...]

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The Humber Bridge

A few days ago John and I headed to Hull for work, about four hours north by car. John went as driver, cameraman and director. I believe I was taken along as interviewer, boom operator, in-car napper and object to be trodden upon by interviewee’s black labrador. I excelled in each duty. Once our interviews [...]

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