The other night I went out to the Manchester Blog Awards ceremony - and felt somewhat disappointed at my lack of bloggy goodness. There hasn't been any shortage of stuff to write about, just lack of headspace and perhaps a little feeling of exposure. read more...

After dropping Sarah off at Perpignan Airport, we headed up to Tautavel to visit Europe's oldest man. or so we thought. read more...

Sheffield has art. Bolton lacks anything quite this advanced. read more...

This Thursday I am doing a radio show on Sheffield Live entitled Sam's Cosmic Corner. It will be mainly stuff from the Bellerophon 10th anniversary recordings and the Pocky sessions. read more...

And as promised, here is a brief review of Eric's Exhibition:<br/>It was a sunny and bright day up at the top of Park Hill on Sunday, though big rainclouds were looming on the horizon. "Let's look at the exhibition and then go for a little walk along the canal" was my main thought but we ended up getting so distracted by the pictures and sitting and yabbering to Eric and his friend (name forgotten - sorry - please add to the comments) about life, art, modernism, and the highs and lows of social housing that by the time we finished it wasn't really worth going for a walk by the canal. read more...

To add to the cultural livelihood of Park Hill in what seems to be an annual event, one of the flats is turning into a gallery for the next couple of weekends and is playing host to local photographer Eric Winnert. It's at number 81 Norwich Row - just a few doors away from us and is all part of a wider scheme called Open Up. read more...

Dylan's friend Ralf is performing at the Showroom on Friday in the form of RLF vs Godzilla which is likely to be pretty fabulous. <br/> . read more...

There are lots of baby macintoshes in the foyer again - only this time they are singing in a kind of lilting way. This has mildly inspired me to upload some pictures of the office. read more...

This weekend we went to my home town of Lancaster and thence to the quaint village of Hornby to see various members of my family performing in The Sorcerer, a comic-opera by Gilbert and Sullivan which involves a nice young vicar unknowingly distributing psychedelic tea. A great time was had by all. read more...

We went to see Arthur Miller's The Crucible at the Crucible on Friday night. We thought it pretty good - though it was a bit shouty and fast at the beginning. read more...

Don't you just hate the way that everything on telly at this time of year seems to be The top 100 greatest TV moments of 2003 or What's the best comedy show in the world ever. If it's not television about television it's bound to be some Sleep deprivation torture show. read more...

There seem to be quite a few things in the news today, the most uplifting is that Stari Most, the old bridge in Mostar will be getting a new keystone. This is the bridge destroyed in 1993 during the war, having spanned the gap for 500 years. read more...