Starspots #211

30.ix.11 Feargal Sharkey (The Undertones) - East Finchley tube, he caught my wife's Northern Irish tones on the air

29.ix.11 Robert Harris (author) - Hatchards (wish I'd have had my copy of The Hitler Diaries for him to sign)

28.ix.11 Anna Richardson (The Sex Education Show) - chat out back on the terrace at C4

Recently:
Jamie Oliver - in the office
Kirstie Allsop - in the office
Mariella Frostrup - in Pret near BBC Broadcasting House
Stephen Fry - in a warehouse in Hackney (100 Greatest Gadgets shoot)
Jon Snow - brief exchange outside QE2 Conference Hall, Westminster
Paul Brady (musician) - brief exchange in Khan's restaurant, Westbourne Grove
Leon Russell - ditto
Morgan Spurlock - quick chat in Showroom cinema in Sheffield
George Clarke - chat at Soho Square
Jeremy Hardy - chat in Showroom cinema in Sheffield
Neil Morrisey - chat on Parkway Walk, Finsbury Park
Boo Hewerdine (musician) - behind Feis in Finsbury Park
Michael Portillo - Horseferry Road

Helsinki - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

My speech going down so well at YLE

FotoFlaneur trip across Helsinki culminating in watching my much-needed capuccino being made in the Citroen van

Buying apples in the market by the port (where I probably landed on the SS Uganda all those years ago)

Eastwards Ho! - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Getting a bunch of developments signed off and the paperwork done

Worky lunch with Katie Boyd in the revamped C4 caff

Overview time (work) on the plane to Helsinki

Day-before-yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Ireland beating Australia at Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand crowning BOD's and ROG's careers

Phone chat with Katherine in Aspen

Hitting 91.5 pm

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Walk along the Lea Navigation Canal from The Castle Bridge to Olympic Stadium with U and D in the autumn sunshine

Spurs beating Liverpool 4-0 with Adebayor scoring 2 on his home debut

Sunday night viewing - Jane Eyre at the Phoenix with U

Networks

Hierarchies have been under attack from networks for 20 years now.

Ben Hammersley

from here

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Listening to Heather Rabbatts' Desert Island Discs during my jog - fond memories of early days at 4Learning with Jonathan, James, George, Sally et al (many now at Royal Opera House with Heather)

Reading a vintage Penguin in the garden at sunset - Roger Casement's trial by H. Mongomery Hyde

Watching Harry Brown with N - the recent riots throw a new light on it (remarkably prescient)

Innovation quote

Innovation comes from creating environments where ideas connect.

— Steven Johnson in 2011

Source

from Quotables

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Working with designer Neville Brody on a project to create a new London building

Reading through a selection of multiplatform ideas from Mint Digital

Watching 24 (season 5) with the Enfants Terribles

Lisa Hannigan - Bush Hall 19/7/11

A Sail
Paper House
Flowers
Ocean and a Rock **
Venn Diagram
O Sleep (with John Smith)
Little Bird
Nowhere to go *** (hill, house - could be Home)
Home
Dunno *
Sea Song
Passenger
What I'll Do
Lille
***
Knots
Safe Travels Don't Die
Personal Jebus

[see original Set List in blue folder]

John Smith - supporting and accompanying
with Una

Words I like

Yak
Aromatic

Neil Diamond at The Millennium Dome 9/7/11

1 Soolimon
2 Shiloh
3 Cherry O Baby
Aint no sunshine
4 I'm a Believer
5 You don't bring me flowers
6 Holy holy
7 Sweet Caroline
8 I am I said
+++
9 Cracklin' Rosie
10 America
11 Travelling Salvation Show
12 Released

With Ma and Mo

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Playing Top 3s with N & D at Cafe Rouge, Highgate with The Black Book (all since ripped off by Claudia Winkelman's King Of)

Lunch at Maurizio's with N - artichoke me, Milano salami him - the usual

Collecting D from Euston after his longest time away from home to date

Michael Franti at Bush Hall 3/7/11

Everyone Deserves Music
Sound of Sunshine
Hey Hey Hey ***
---
Could It Be Love (Bob Marley)
Say Hey

Creative Accounting #98

Bob Marley + Arrested Development + Richie Havens = Michael Franti

Songwriters' Circle 29/6/11

Donovan:
Mellow Yellow
Colours

Buffy Saint Marie:
Little Wheels
Universal Soldier *

Roger Cook:
Something's Got a Hold of My Heart
I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing

At Porchester Hall with Claire and Jacqui, for BBC4.

Songwriters' Circle 28/6/11

Leon Russell:
Tightrope
Marsquerade

Nick Lowe:
Battlefield
Beast in the Cage (Johnny Cash)
Cruel to be Kind
I Read Alot More

Paul Brady:
Smile
Nobody Knows
Steelclaw
Luck of the Draw
The World is What You Make

All:
Train Arriving

At Porchester Hall with Neil B, for BBC4.

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

First blackberry of the year picked

Life drawing (first time in a fair while) - Justa

Reading Ulysses late at night when all are abed

Creative Accounting #663

Matthew and Son (Cat Stevens) - all but the start of the chorus = Mad World (Tears for Fears) - all but the start of the chorus

Feis 3 Van

(?)
(?)
?
Real real gone
I can't stop loving you
Moondance
Have I told you lately
(Never let me go)
?
In the garden? No methon no guru *
Girl from the Co Down
Step right up
Walk when I walk **
Gloria