I did a pretty poor job of giving updates on the months of June and July so thought I’d post a little retrospective covering the major happenings…
Archive for the ‘Music’ category
June and July
July 31st, 2010
Summer time and the living is…busy
July 4th, 2010You know when you’ve made a set of plans that leave you pretty busy but you can just about do everything and then someone adds something extra and you’re left thinking…shit how am I going to do all this stuff?!
That’s kind of how the summer has started for me and I’m also going to use it as my excuse for no blog since May! This is my review of my shows at Brighton Fringe…
Jazz Jazz Baby Video
May 15th, 2010So, a few weeks ago me and a bunch of friends old and new spent the weekend filming a video for my jazz cover of the Vanilla Ice ‘classic’ Ice Ice Baby, I’m delighted to say it’s now ready and will be featuring in my new comedy show Jim Bowes: Obsession – but if you want to see it now you can…
Josaka update
April 29th, 2010So despite my general lack of updates things have been pretty busy with Josaka – we had a packed Josaka 11th birthday at South Street in Reading with live sets from Quiet Quiet Band, MidiMidis, White Sunday and The Circus Sands.
Here’s a video of MidiMidis from the night…
Confession time…
February 6th, 2010So, since the end of October I’ve been avoiding crisps and chocolate and I’ve been doing pretty well.
Eating chocolate at Christmas was allowed – as long as I was socialising with family, I took advantage of that. However there have been a couple of failings:
- Early on I ate a McFlurry and two chocolate chip mini muffins
- On Wednesday night this week I was working over night implementing a new website. At 7am a trolley of tea, coffee and biscuits arrived, sleep deprived and without even thinking I picked up a chocolate biscuit and put it in my mouth. I was literally horrified when I realised what I’d done and seriously considered spitting it out. But as I was in a room of people, at a bank, working, I decided I just had to swallow. I’m sorry I’ve let you down. It won’t happen again.
So, if you can forgive me perhaps we can move past this? On the plus side I did successfully implement the largest web project I’ve done to date (take a look www.barclays.co.uk) and I’ve not eaten a single crisp….
Reading, new releases and tours
September 4th, 2009Last weekend was spent at Reading Festival writing reviews for Josaka about the weekend’s events. I bumped in to lots and friends and generally had a good time. Kings of Leon got a bit angry, Thom Yorke said “Wassup” before playing Creep and I drank lots of rum.
End of the regular tweet, work, book, Josaka and life
August 8th, 2009So after flirting with tweeting regularly and installing a clever plugin that automatically updated my blog with a weekly round up of my tweets I’ve accepted that this is lame way to maintain my (or any) blog and to that end I’ve stopped it this morning.
Instead I’ve decided to go back to the less-frequent-but-more-informative blogs actually written in one go by me rather than random 140 character mini-blogs all added together.
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Christmas Eve at The Oakford
December 8th, 2008I’ll be performing in some form or other at The Oakford Social Club on Christmas Eve. Me, my radio mic, some great bands and a lot of drink.
More info here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=38182533195
Jim x
Josaka 10th birthday
November 29th, 2008We’re now pretty sure the date for this will be 14th March 2009 – and there may well be an extra event on Sunday 15th March too. I’m speaking to bands at the moment and I’m hoping we can put on a really memorable show!
More news once I have it.
