This is my latest concoction, and it’s fair to say I’m obsessed. On a smoothie kind of a day, it doesn’t get any better than this. It tastes like melted mint-choc chip ice-cream – ohhh, creamy badness – but it has a scandalous secret… ….it is ridiculously good for you. I’m not kidding. We’re […]
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Routine is not something which features strongly in my life, but there are several things which I definitely do every day/try to do every day/do as often as possible. Things which take minimal time and effort, but which have a beneficial effect on my overall wellbeing in mind, body and spirit, as well as helping
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This has been an exciting week of forging new alliances! On the sound side, I’ve started working with two very different female artists, both of whose music I enjoy. (This makes mixing a pleasure, but has its downsides when I’m still all vibed up on a great earworm at bedtime – I can’t stand still behind
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Ohhhh, Cranachan. Raspberries, oats, honey…. and whipped cream and whisky. So bad and yet so good. So I decided to have it for breakfast. No, I haven’t lost it and decided that morning booze is the way forward, I’m not that rock and roll! Instead, I’ve come up with a ‘go health’ alternative that is
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I’ve spent all my working life in the music business and on the road. It’s what I know and love, but I’d never really appreciated just how right we get it most of the time until recently. I had a glimpse of what life is like in the non-touring world, and I have to tell
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I’ve been teaching meditation classes for some time now, mostly to people who are completely new to it. It seems that meditation is something that we all know can benefit us – reduced stress and stress-related illnesses, calmer and happier disposition, better sleep to name but a few – but most people don’t know how
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…..but a little chocolate now and again doesn’t hurt! I was shocked yesterday when I saw the price of chocolate eggs. I’m not massively into Easter anyway, but this seemed ludicrous – pure consumerism in the non-delicious sense. So I decided to make something as a gift instead. It’s not exactly a health food, but
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So I finally did it. I finally kicked that long-held, sweaty-palm, racing-heart, oh-god-I-might-be sick-or-possibly-cry, fear to the kerb. I faced the bugger down and I NEVER HAVE TO DO THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER AGAIN. It’s done. Did I jump out of a plane? Save a child from a burning building? Escape from a
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This week I’ve been at rehearsals in London for a new show, so I’ve joined the daily commuter grind each morning and evening. The studio’s tricky to get to from mine, so I’ve been leaving very early and not getting home till bedtime. That’s cool, it’s the nature of the beast, but as I’m up
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At the Total Production Awards this week, I was struck by how many of our road-family we have lost in the past year. Men cut down in what should be their prime years, many still far from pensionable age. Is it the rigours of a less-than-healthy life of touring? Even if someone has never touched
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