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2025 Resolutions
Hello there… General Kenobi. Right, I’ll be honest, I usually do this well in advance but I forgot and so here I am at 11pm writing some resolution. Outside a load of knobs are already letting off fireworks, blowing their pyrotechnic load early so to speak, but Harris (son) is asleep, Poppy (dog) isn’t too…
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Exploring Data: Show Search
I’ve been writing arts marketing blog posts for what feel like a long time now. I decided in my 2023 New Year’s Resolutions to make a few changes to how and why I write them. Increasingly I felt like I wasn’t saying or doing anything particularly original – instead merely regurgitating some version of what…
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Theatre, freedom and anti-vaxxer complaints.
It’s late. The clock has just chimed midnight. Or at least it would have should I own a clock with a bell that chimes. I’m wide awake, shoulders tight and I can tell I’m wound up. To begin. Welsh Government have introduced new rules surrounding showing your Covid Status when attending theatre and cinema events…
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Thank You For Your Complaint
Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for getting in touch to tell me how outraged/disappointed/angered (delete as applicable) you are because we no longer offer [insert complaint here] any more – I understand how frustrated you must be and I’m glad you’ve got in touch with me, a “moron/so-called expert/failure of a manger/incompetent pen-pusher” (delete as applicable) to inform…
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All my controversial thoughts about how to run theatre right. Not wrong. Like you might do it. Yeah you.
So, here it is, strap in, I’ve got some truth bombs to release, I’m going to let rip, welcome to the fast lane of opinions, the deep fat fryer of fact, I may even use CAPS LOCK, or maybe Randomly Capitalise Words for little or no apparent reason, underlining get ready, CRTL + U, prepare…
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All the things that make me cry.
Things that make me cry or weepy (updated list): Babies being born and handed to sobbing fathers/mothers/relatives Outstanding sporting achievement against the odds People passing away and everything that goes with that Chipped goals by Lionel Messi against Real Betis Not knowing what to do next at work Having to ring the gas/electricity/council tax/broadband people…
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How To Annoy Everyone In Arts Marketing (or, Arts Marketing’s Technical Problem)
I got back from this year’s Arts Marketing Association conference feeling quite pleased with myself – this is unusual – usually I return with feelings of inadequacy or guilt, and/or the feeling that tweeting at post 11pm, half-cut on cheap white wine “My Harsh Opinions About Everything People Are Doing Wrong” wasn’t, after all, such…
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Gig Report: Warrington – 8 May ’19
I’ve not written a gig report for a few years – when I first started I used to write them after every gig, but then as 10 gigs became 20, became 100 I stopped – I think I stopped because I stopped progressing and feeling like I was getting better – of course that may…
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Grief’s early days.
I’m conscious that I don’t often write deep and meaningful blog posts – let’s be honest, it tends to be mildly amusing arts marketing observations, occasionally stuff about life as an open mic stand up and then the annual new year’s resolutions that I’ve failed to keep. I mention it because this is, or, more…