Entries from December 2006

December 26, 2006

Talk about… pop musik

Given that I spend much of my life listening to music, spent six years in music retail management, I’m surprised I haven’t written anything about music yet. So here goes.
I’ve lost the reference, but I read something about a ‘rock comeback’ which was calculated by sales (Found the original stats at http://www.bpi.co.uk/pdf/sales_by_type_tables_2005.pdf). The ‘rock’ share [...]

December 12, 2006

The 4th or 5th biggest economy in the world… so why so tatty?

I’ve just returned from a few days in Copenhagen, just as the pre-budget report was being reported. Once again we here that Britain is great, with a booming economy, lots of money to spend, ‘you’ve never had it so good’. On arriving in Denmark, I arrived in the most beautiful airport, then into a city [...]