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The End 11 Jun 2010 | 07:01 am
On June 10th 2000 I started this blog, my first. Today is June 10th 2010. I’ve been blogging for ten years. To mark this occasion I’m going to stop this blog. Everything will be neatly packed away ...
Get your 8bit Pete stickers. Get them. 7 Jun 2010 | 06:24 am
Are you the sort of person who likes sticking small pieces of paper to things? Do you also like listening to bald men play chiptunes in pubs and other venues? Then you might be wanting an 8bit Pete s...
Live Storytelling 2 Jun 2010 | 08:29 am
I was wanting a snooze earlier and to send me off was listing to a The Moth podcast which, naturally, kept me awake for the duration but that’s by the by. The setup of The Moth interests me. Here’s th...
Artists at your music festival 22 May 2010 | 08:19 am
Outcrowd Collective artists doing art at Supersonic 2008 – photo by Abrinsky Today I had a nice chat with a guy whose name I’ve completely forgotten who’s putting on a one day music festival the name...
Songwriter’s Cafe 21 May 2010 | 11:02 pm
Last night I was honoured, and I don’t use that word lightly, to be invited to Paul Murphy‘s house for his Songwriter’s Cafe. More accurately it was held in a purpose built room under his treehouse at...
Urban Beachcombing 19 May 2010 | 09:42 am
We went for an evening stroll around the neighbourhood and noticed a gap in the fence of what was, I learned from Fi, the site of the former Philip Harris Medical Centre in Stirchley. It’s here on the...
All hail the Creative Industry Smuggerati 18 May 2010 | 10:59 am
One good thing to come out of that unfortunate incident with the councilor and the status-updating platform was the lodging in my brain of the phrase “Creative Industry Smuggerati”. Meet my new hench...
8bit Pete at the Vaults 15 May 2010 | 10:14 pm
May 26th sees 8bit Pete engaged by Art Detection Services at The Vaults to provide music entertainment as they judge the goodness or otherwise of Art using their bespoke Art Detector Machines. I have...
I’m going to hold you to that 15 May 2010 | 12:03 pm
The other day the Prime Minister said this: “Today we are not just announcing a new government and new ministers. We are announcing a new politics. A new politics where the national interest is more ...
The PIBWANFI list 13 May 2010 | 12:00 pm
This evening Gareth Compton, the Conservative councillor for Erdington, Birmingham, behaved like a bit of a cunt using his Twitter account. To be honest I don’t really care about him or what he’s done...
