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A Great City Playlist
Introduction I was listening to "True Stories" by The Talking Heads and the song "City of Dreams" is absolutely gorgeous. Then I started thinking that would be a great theme for a playlist and losts of songs popped into my head that are about cities or reference cities.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Beat
The Building
The Preamble Big buildings with little or no windows disconcert or scare me. This is the inspiration for the following story. I wasn’t sure how I could play this out but then in a dream state I took it the recently closed Vocal Challenge which you can see below. Of course this is too late, but wouldn’t have made the cut anyway (that’s just a joke)
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Fiction
In Deepest Manchester
The image is taken from Vocalzone Introduction Around 1977 I was in a band called The Bok and we touted our demos to various record companies but the only ones who took any notice were Rabid Records. You can hear the demos below, but this is essentially about the general "Madchester" phenomenon, Factory Records, Tony Wilson, The Hacienda and other probably unrelated stuff.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Beat
Be Body Positive
Introduction As a child, I was fat, although I didn't realise it until I started getting called names at school. My mum always gave me lots to eat, but I still played football, went on mentally long walks and rode my bike to school (a couple of miles), so it's not like I was lazy though I did read a lot. My brother did the same and was thin as a rake, so go figure that.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Humans
A Combination Of The Two
Introduction This is going to reference two pieces, one from Vocal Resources about Filters and one of mine about building a simple Vocal Network. At the end of this piece I will link the two stories and all the people I am aware of who have joined in with the Vocal Network that I suggested. I actually thought that Vocal would add it as a resource as they did comment favourably about it and it does bring Vocal members a little closer together, but we shall see if it ever gets picked up by Vocal.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Journal
The Stripe
Introduction Just over a year ago my dad came up to visit us and his great-granddaughter Alexis Leia. We were going out for a meal and he fell and managed to shatter his knee. Below is a picture of him, me and Alexis-Leia while waiting for the ambulance.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets