Back from another DJ date in Club Razz amidst Barcelona's beauty and blistering heat.
(Below paper scrap, one of numerous, scribbled frantically by the punters requesting tunes!).

Sunday, several sermons at 'Church' including spontaneous camera phone pics like below with Tony on the left, Sean P + James Bull both to the right.

Lucy's lovely Birthday dinner @ Prince Alfred's, Maida Vale; big up the bangers & mash plus decadent desert sharing of Banoffee Pie, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Brownie Bizness etc. then home to catch up on some bedtime mag reading. As ever, tons of little bits & pieces/articles including another tearing Touré-penned Rolling Stone hip-hop piece on uber-hip-hop producer "Scott Storch". Also relished every inch of the Steve Barron interview in July's "Promo" (industry pop video publication). Barron's like the godfather to Gondry, sheer f*cking pioneering visual genius. Bring on the Steve Barron Director's DVD ASAP!!!!

Steve Barron recently won the oustanding achievement awards at this year's CADS-06-Music Vision Awards and reading the article/interview with the directing don just reinforced my respect for this guy's creativity in a medium that really gets harder to make a mark nowadays with so much more 'media' choice & distraction. When MTV dawned in the early 80s, (UK) TV still only had 3 to 4 channels, no internet, MySpace, i-Pod, ,YouTube, DVD, explosion of video games plus the plethora of the week's new music, film, TV shows, Virals etc. like today. It's so nuts when I dip into say, Time Out or Empire and see the glut of new releases so many which disappear at an alarming rate.

The pop-promo biz was pretty embryonic back in the early 80s, taking far more risk than it tends to now plus, as I mention, it was all so new. Also, because of the abundance of stuff to digest, it's not only hard to remember something that stands out but to actually remember it for a long period of time too. Of course, getting old is one factor in all this but boy, Steve Barron's work stays imprinted on my brain, check these 2 boxes (from "Promo") below that had me drooling, a sort of DVD commentary in print.

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