One of the big takeaways from me from this year’s IASPM Conference, the biggest meeting of the top academics in popular music studies, was that Spotify sucks. The really interesting thing about Spotify, is that almost everyone who uses it seems to dislike it in some way. I’ve seen numerous complaints about their renumeration to […]
Last Saturday, I was blessed with a free ticket at the Canberra Theatre Centre. I was umming and ahhing about going to this production: tickets for under 30s were $60, plus a fee which brought it up to almost $70. I had never seen this opera before, but I thought the tickets were quite steep […]
I’ve started to approach my work like I do my running. In running, we have cyclical training: a program for a race is often split into multiple phases, with allocated “de-load” weeks spaced throughout. This provides a foundation to solidly build toward a goal without overloading and crashing out. I think this is a useful […]