Music
Take the Lead
Grant
13 October 2023
This year is the tenth anniversary of the release of a film called Take the Lead starring Antonio Banderas. I […]
MTV : Memoirs of a Minor MTV DJ
Grant
11 October 2023
At the height of the bootleg / mashup trend (2003/04), a bunch of music producers, including myself, were caught up […]
XFM : Memoirs of a Minor XFM DJ – Post 4
Grant
9 October 2023
I’d been McSleazy as a DJ / producer since the late 90s. (It was pronounced like the Scottish Mc- prefix, […]
XFM : Memoirs of a Minor XFM DJ – Part 3
Grant
7 October 2023
One of the best things about the show I did was that the listeners were often making tunes that ended […]
XFM : Memoirs of a Minor XFM DJ – Part 2
Grant
5 October 2023
As a newbie, the XFM studio was lit like the spaceship at the end of Close Encounters. Buttons, faders, meters […]
XFM : Memoirs of a Minor XFM DJ – Part 1
Grant
3 October 2023
Many years ago, there was a radio station in the west of Scotland called Beat 106. Its remit was pretty […]
Music Gear : Stuff I Use to Make My Noise
Grant
15 April 2021
I’ve been looking forward to writing this post. The next best thing to having music gear is talking about it. […]
Outside : Mentions
Grant
14 April 2021
There has been a couple of mentions of Outside on some music websites. First up is the grand-daddy of Scottish […]
Music : Communicating to a Non-Musician
Grant
1 April 2021
I’ve been writing music for films and games for many years, but always remotely. I live in Glasgow, and the […]