http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/ en-us 2008-03-15T12:10:20+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2008/03/time_0600_gmt_1.html Time 06:00 gmt +1 time since leaving home : 1 hr It starts badly. I take the 6.05 train from Rennes to Paris CDG. It’s 5.55am. I just drove from home. Didn’t stop for coffee. Those of you aquainted with... robin 2008-03-15T12:10:20+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2008/03/down_mexico_way.html Hola Amigos. OK, where did I leave you? Oh, yes I was in Mexico City with a strangely familiar absence of my luggage, no pants or toothbrush, and a healthy dose of the flu, which had been lingering since Italy.... robin's life robin 2008-03-07T21:14:35+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2008/02/italy.html Day 1 I’m on tour in Italy. I arrived yesterday in Catania. I’ve never been to Sicily before so it’s fun just to look around and enjoy being somewhere else. Catania is surprisingly close to Mount Etna. The Italians, apparently... robin's music robin 2008-02-23T20:05:32+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/12/post_3.html So this is Christmas. I am at the top of a very wobbly ladder in my garden attaching Christmas lights to a tree. I am 45 years old. I feel like Rod Hull. My cellphone has gone off twice in... robin's music robin 2007-12-22T00:14:59+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/10/i_am_the_passen.html And I ride and I ride 5.45am, I was in Seattle driving down interstate 5 towards the airport, thinking to myself, “well robin, something’s going to happen today. I can’t imagine having to take a trip from Seattle to Lima,... robin's life robin 2007-10-06T16:44:59+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/10/real_time.html Seattle dB Festival performance with Harold Budd The show isn’t meant to start yet, I’ve just come onstage to switch on all my equipment and tune up my guitar, but my presence generates applause and the lights go down. Silent... robin's music robin 2007-10-01T20:36:21+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/09/same_old.html Time to write a little about music. I should, and often mean to, but more often than not start to ramble on about some small calamity or other. I’ve started a new production, a very interesting band from Australia called... robin's music robin 2007-09-20T02:11:54+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/09/things_i_did_la.html All through the summer I was invited to play at some small festivals and other events which were, for the most part, pleasing if not a little exhausting. I had imagined a peaceful summer, spent doing all those things I... robin's music robin 2007-09-14T16:34:29+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/08/seville.html OK…OK….OK, I know, I only write about stuff when things go wrong and It must seem like when many weeks pass without me writing that things must have, apparently, been OK. Well, I have to agree, this is probably the... robin's music robin 2007-08-04T00:50:18+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/07/lonely_planet_1.html Words fail me right now. Anyone who has ever read my weblog will understand that I have a special gift in life, namely blurring the boundaries between what is unlikely and what is possible while traveling by air. This time,... robin's life robin 2007-07-05T14:30:52+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/07/studio_b.html My concert at Studio B in Brooklyn didn't suck but, overall, it was somewhat of a disappointment to me. I found the conditions in the club less than favorable for a nice performance and I didn't really get into it.... robin's music robin 2007-07-04T09:56:49+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/06/post_2.html I've been in the US for the last few days. I have a performance to do on Thursday and, because it's in a rowdy assed night club instead of a serene theatre type environment, I've decided to try something a... robin's music robin 2007-06-28T02:20:33+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/06/dispatches_from.html Now if you ask me the summer seems a strange time to choose to have winter but those happy folks down in South America seem OK with that idea and it suddenly struck me that an idea that I've lived... robin's life robin 2007-06-12T21:58:00+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/06/dispatches_from_1.html Part 1 I've just arrived home from Chile and Peru. I wrote some of the forthcoming words in the heat of the moment and some after some careful consideration. I promised myself I wouldn't write anything negative in this... robin's music robin 2007-06-12T14:36:55+01:00 http://pulp.orangephotography.com/robin/archives/2007/05/im.html ....going to do some shows in South America. I am, I have to say, rather intrigued by the prospect of visiting a place, one so far away from home, that people may be interested in what I have to offer.... robin's life robin 2007-05-27T02:11:09+01:00