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Here’s a 2 minute appeal for you help with the Space telephone call that Mike and Dave in Australia are making.This is only a small MP3 file so you might like to pass it on to friends. Let’s see how global a networlk of contacts we can create to connect with one man!You can get…

IntroHappy – Jimmie Bratcher (Missouri, USA)Hedge laying in progress (right) a beautiful job, well done by Angus and a zillion miles from the seven hours, main road drive to Birmingham and back yesterday for a four hour meeting!By contrast we heard from Kimo Watanabe now safely back in Salt Lake CityLeave the light on –…

IntroHappy – Jimmie Bratcherwww.jimmiebratcher.comJust back from York, which has the most beautiful station (right).Sarah Mac Band play SecondLife gigWent to my first live gig in second life at the weekend. The Sarah Mac Band were playing live as part of a show which featured Lee Broderick. It was held on Muse Island in Second Life…

IntroHappy – Jimmie Bratcher (Missouri, USA)www.jimmiebratcher.comWelcome to you, especially if you are a new listener – there seem to be more of us having a good time together each week!Been out for a fix of live music again this week, Thursday saw the launch of a new venture, pretty much a collective of local musicians…

Ah, the romance of Wickham Market – roses and Asti Spumanti are sold out at the Co-op.This weeks picture is of Albert Slade modelling a very fetching I listen, therefore I am – Suffolk ‘n’ Cool T shirt. Albert is exploring Second Life (www.secondlife.com) on my behalf. I do just wish he’d hitch his jeans…

Local snow yesterday was amazingly local.Norwich Arts Centre last night for Foy Vance, Fiona Bevan and Jamie Woon a great show, lovely atmosphere but another late night.PMN approaches 30,000 songs. They are available for you to trawl through too. Just go to http://music.podshow.com and search the music. OK, assuming it gets there, I’ll play the…

Well, we made it through the first 50 shows and the first year of podcasting. It doesn’t feel like "made it through" at all. The journey so far has been a blast and there are so many exciting things happening in the worlds of podcasting, independent music and Suffolk ‘n’ Cool. I’m really sorry about…

This is a re-post of SnC049 from 24 January, now that I’m back from York and able to sort out the inadvertent inclusion of Pete Cogle’s delightful sweeper at full blast and right over Fiona Bevan. So sorry Fiona and thanks for pointing out my eror Pete (without sounding too smug!) If you have any…

It’s rapidly approaching Suffolk ‘n’ Cool’s first anniversary of podcasting (on Feb 1st). By a quirk of fate and problems with broadband it is also show number 50 on 31 Jan.These seem to be times great shifts in the way music is created and distributed. Stories seem to be emerging almost daily of big labels…

Went on a day out (the only way of really getting away from the studio) to Southwold on Saturday in the pouring rain. The perfect weather for a day in the home-town of Adnams Ales. First stop The Swan for a coffee and a warm-up by the fire. A paddle along the main street then…

Well, that’s it then, the holiday season is behind us and 2007 is already underway. How was it for you? I hope you’ve had a good break and are ready to take another year by the scruff of the neck and give it a damn good shake and see what falls out of it.Comment from…

A strange time of year at the best of times but after all the fog last week, it has been heavily overcast for days so it has hardly got light which adds even more to the feeling that we are in limbo. What’s more, no picture this week. It hasn’t ben light enough!At least it…