Sting Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Sting in words and pictures from his gig in Ottawa

[More concert reporting from Karen Coughtrey (words) and Ross MacDonald (pictures). – AC] It was finally a mild spring evening

Hyperreal artificial humans: What could possibly go wrong? Try to ignore that as you go through music news for April

Another day, another big catalogue music deal. After several months of rumours that a deal was imminent, it was announced

Please don’t shoot people over loud music, especially on Christmas Eve. Then again, this is a Florida story. Segueing to

Nanobots are now real. This will freak out the tinfoil hat people. The music news for November 19, 2021, is

Sure, it’s nice to have a long string of hit songs that generate royalties to support you in to your

“Man dies after using adhesive instead of a condom during sex.” That was in Florida, of course. The rest of

Can we please give the Jeopardy job to Mayim Bialik already? Or Levar Burton. I’d be okay with that, too.

This is why some people shouldn’t have nice things. That’s not gonna buff out. Moving to music news for August

Coronavirus update 1: Concerts will resume in Italy on June 15. Coronavirus update 2: British music magazines–the best on the

Anyone else having weird dreams during the pandemic? This could explain a few things. Now, music news for April 11,

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver