Revisiting the awesome Scorpions live album of 1978, both the original and revisited recorded live at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Japan. The latter with Nathan James on vocals. A great live accompaniment to the Scorpions Revisited album, also by Uli Jon Roth released in 2015. Line-up mostly the usual suspects: Uli Jon Roth (guitar) Nathan James (vocals) Jamie Little…
Autumn 2016: a new academic year, a new term, time for a new module! Well, not entirely new since half of it was largely based on a module I taught the previous couple of years (but with much of the detail removed to concentrate more on the ideas and applications), but still this was a module that I have been…
The Oxford Natural History Museum is a wonderful gem of a building (not least because of the amazing Pitt Rivers museum tucked away at the back, with every corner, shelf and drawer stuffed with antiquity) and amongst the dinosaur bones and dodos there’s often a temporary exhibition which at the moment is the outstanding photography of Levon Biss. It’s…
As many will know, over the years I have taken delight in lambasting cyclists doing stupid things as I’ve been driving (such as running red lights, cycling with no lights and in dark clothing at night, basically ignoring the rules of the road at every possibility). My Triathlon friends will also attest to my general apathy towards their pursuits as…
