British Lockdown Diaries 2020
I started writing these diaries on LinkedIn as an antidote to all the self-obsessed selling that was happening on that platform. Look at…
PAUL DETTMANN
Writer at Americana Vibes + White Owl and Pen & Sword Books.
Private Communications: WhatsApp
I’ve written before about deleting Facebook and WhatsApp. They are two of my most popular articles here on Medium. But today, as WhatsApp…
Roland Gift and Fine Young Cannibals
Roland Gift has been called many things, and one of those things is “the first black punk in Hull”. He was in a Hull ska band called…
The Housemartins Hit The Big Time
It is Christmas 1986 and Caravan of Love reaches №1, only to be knocked off by the inestimable Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson. The Transit…
Mick Ronson and David Bowie
We stay in the 1970s for a look at the career of another Hull musician, Mick Ronson. He’s not widely remembered outside East Yorkshire or…
1970s Politics
The docks, Cod Wars, the Gaul
The Housemartins Form
The Housemartins: burning bright but brief
Intro
This is more than one story. This is partly a story about music for anyone who knows where Hull is. No, it’s not. Partly, possibly. It’s…
The Venues: New Adelphi
Back in the day, the 1980s and 1990s, music needed a place to happen. Before the internet, Hull had music pubs. My brother and my friends…
Straight Outta
The big surprise was Sade. I knew about the Housemartins and the Beautiful South because they released records when I was buying them. And…
More on Choosing Software
However you choose a data platform, the most important thing is to have a process. Even if you run your own business and you’re making the…
Phoebe Price: Postcard from LA
Phoebe Price is simply the best business brain, and most genuine person, I have met in the entertainment industry. Our paths crossed ten years ago in 2010.