Well, this is about the longest I have gone without blogging. My new laptop broke down in early June – and has taken three months to be fixed. So – although I got my laptop back last week, I am sending this from the IPod – as an experiment. During the last few months I have been really busy – completing a report for the Higher Education Academy into live music in Wales

– in addition to preparing for a semiology conference in Edinburgh, starting two essays on musical virtuality and creative musical practice – in addition to being made Head of the Division in Music and Sound at the AtriuM and a Reader in Popular Music Analysis (so I have to find time to research).

Hopefully I will find time to start blogging on a more regular basis again from now on………..

Watch this space.