Month: June 2011
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Wild Goose Talk – Audio Download
Apologies for dodgy sound quality – just put my phone to record by the PA, but the audio of my talk at Wild Goose is available here: The feedback from Wild Goose has been incredibly positive. Well done to all those who put it together – it deserves to have a really positive impact on…
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Wild Goose | US Edition of Other
I got back from Wild Goose early yesterday morning and had to travel immediately to work to teach. So just about emerging from a jet-lagged coma and appreciating what a good time, and a good thing, Wild Goose was. The dream of having an ‘American Greenbelt’ seemed – to talk to lots of US people…
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Why Go to Festivals When the Music Sounds Sh*t?
Interesting piece in The Independent yesterday, asking why people bother going to festivals when the sound quality is crap, there’s mud everywhere, you can’t sleep, and people push and spill beer all over you. I visited Glastonbury once, many years ago now, and left utterly mystified. Why, I wondered at the time, did so many…
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Roll Up! Roll Up! A Dastardly Seminar Attempt at Wild Goose…
Quite simply, you HAVE to be there. See you on site. Limited edition hand-printed bills may be available.
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Wild Goose | Help Needed! | Plug ‘Other’ and get 2 rows closer to God
This time next week I’ll be North Carolina enjoying the inaugural Wild Goose Festival. I’m going to be speaking in the Geodesic Dome venue on Friday evening at 8pm: Loving Others in a World of Fractures From noisy neighbours to racism, fundamentalism, issues about immigration and terrorism, the problem of dealing with ‘the other’ has…