June 2007 archives
Dan Morelle posted a photo:
Its little rosa's birthday on Monday. We make a card for our kids every year (always at the last minute) to send in to early morning tv show in the UK on channel 5 called 'milkshake'. The show CGI cartoons like noddy and rory the racing car. At 5am its dificult to be concious enough to entertain your kids so noddy will do for five minutes!
It looks a bit messy (only had messy glue) closeup but under bright tv studio lights it should hide the mess! If you squint it looks better!
Dan Morelle posted a photo:
Some local restaurants are displaying some of my paintings, this one is in Pizza Express by the river in Newark (UK). Its about 30" x 40" it was amazing fun to do. The title inspired by the Shakespeare quote:
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
Following on from my interview with Talvin Singh, in May 1999 I spoke to Ollie Teeba and Jake Wherry AKA The Herbaliser in who were releasing their new album ‘Very Mercenary‘. I had learned my lesson to let the interviewee speak and not make the interview about me. It helped that they were very chatty [...]
No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett Nottingham, UK. Its raining and its muddy but for one little girl and her family Sunday 25th June 2007 is a momentous day. Ella Morelle (5) can ride a bike without stabilizers! “I just kept telling myself – I CAN DO IT ” Ella said. [...]
So, this was the first ever interview I did for G:Echo in November 1998. My University was around the corner from Brick Lane AKA Banglatown in East London. I saw Talvin across the road from me one day on Brick Lane and decided to approach him and ask for an interview he’d just released the [...]
Dan Morelle posted a photo:
Ella is 5 and Rosa is 2.
My muses.
Quite a few years ago I edited the music section of the magazine at the now rebranded London Metropolitain University. Its a typical ‘Dan’ story how I became appointed – for another time maybe. Needless to say it fully opened the already ajar door of blaggadon (my record/cd collection was doubling on a almost weekly [...]
I put this mix together especially for my friends at olo radio. Check it out and let me know what you think. [display_podcast] Playlist: 01: Gossip – Standing in the way of Control (Soulwax Remix) 02: Kid Carpet – Breakbeatles 03: Fela Kuti – Ololufe Mi 04: Apsci -Cherubic 05: Danger Doom – Space Ho’s [...]
