Category Archives: Sean’s online activities

What’s next?

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Lets face it, ANYTHING I post now is going to seem a little anti-climactic after the fairly big events of the last post, then dissappearing for about 7 weeks.

So, here’s some of the stuff I have coming up that I’ll be blogging about soon:

Leeds Indie Radio

The Foxes and Convicts shows from the start of the summer were really popular, and thanks to everyone who listened to them! I’ll be recording a Christmas special in a few weeks, and recording a new series of interviews with Leeds Music types in the new year. Drop me a line if you want to be involved!

New Music

There’s loads out there! I’ll do a roundup of what I’ve been listening to, both local and from further afield…

March of Dimes

New Single Sleeping Giant has come out, and given me a bit of an insight into the music market… I have some misgivings about it all to share soon!

Online Tech

Google+ is pretty much knackered isn’t it? I’ll be posting about how Google have screwed up *ANOTHER* launch. (and possibly watching my SEO rankings dissappear…)

…and plenty more besides. So, stay tuned, sign up if you like, and may normal service(ish) resume!

New March of Dimes website

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In all the kerfuffle of the last week (birthdays, gigs, life altering announcements etc)  I forgot to mention that I’ve recently launched a new website for my band, March of Dimes.

You can see it at http://www.marchofdimesmusic.com

It’s got videos, gig listings, and our album and EP in full to listen to (and buy, if you haven’t already!)

If you like it, it would be great if you could pass on the address to your chums. Just a wee facebook post, or tweet, or anything to share what we do.

Also, if you know of any promoters or bands that might want to work with us, put them in touch with me :)

For those who are wondering, I built it in WordPress (my favourite CMS!) with a metric boatload of plugins. Every single part of the site – from the base system, to the music store, to the email system) is free to set up. In fact, apart from a bit of commission we pay to Bandcamp for the sales, it’s free to run as well! Brilliant! Gotta love ya some open source. If anyone wants to know what plugins I used for any part of it, just ask and I’ll let you know.

So… go forth and share… please! :)

Choose your own adventure? No thanks!

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It’s been reported today that the always comical statistic of 69% of people want live voting to alter storylines in shows.

That awful BT Couple

That awful BT Couple

Now, a cynic might point out that Diffusion PR, the people that commissioned this study, have BT on their roster. The same BT who recently ran a choose-your-ending ad campaign. But far be it from me to cast such nasturtiums.

There’s no more sure fire way to bland-up your show than by giving the public a choice in the matter. Not only will you end up with lowest common denominator outcomes (I present to you Joe McElderry, Rachel Rice, that one that won that thing.. you know, whassisface, yeah, with the total lack of distinguishing features… yeah?) but to say that we, a bunch of drooling telly watching eedjits, know better than the writers is just arrogant.

Last year, during the quite brilliant, Torchwood: Children of Earth, lots of writers (some that weren’t even involved with the show) came under a huge amount of flack for killing off one of the main characters. I loved the character, a lot of people did, and killing him off was brutal, but worked brilliantly as a plot development.

If you think you can write the stories better than Steven Moffat , Graham Linehan, James Moran et al, then for goodness sake send it in to the BBC and don’t hope over 50% of viewers agree with you so it’ll turn out ok in a vote.

And if you’re writing to please more than 50% of your viewers – give up, you’re doing it wrong.

Seasons Change video – March of Dimes

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Hello,

I’ve done a video for the lead track off of the new March of Dimes EP.

Written & directed by me, it features lots of our friends who pop along to, or have played at, our monthly music night Foxes and Convicts.

Featuring cameos from:
Hannah Trigwell
Gareth Aveyard
Jo Murricane
Kat Tanney
Chris Martin (Not that one)
Jon Moss
… and the rest of March of Dimes!

This also launches the new March of Dimes YouTube channel, so keep an eye out for more videos there soon :)

The Best Job In The World

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I was at Internet World in Earl’s Court this week, and one of the Keynotes was given by Jane Nicholson, regional director for Tourism Queensland.

She was clearly very proud of the work her team had done, and rightly so. There were no huge revelations here about how to run the perfect campaign… but clearly bring very very lucky never hurts anyone ;)

If you could be in any doubt of the success of this campaign, check out this video she showed at the event. Amazing stuff!