Featured are my first trip to Nashville in 2011 on stage at the Ryman Auditorium, repeating the same a decade later as a PhD researcher, and backstage on the Woman of Country tour earlier this year. Plus some favourite performances! Happy 100th ✨🎈🤠

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I'm reflecting on past lives, discovering new ones and, as we all are, coming to the terms with the world heading in a very different direction than perhaps we would want it to.

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This album was written over a crazy couple of years during which I become a father, started a PhD, travelled around the US and hit my 30s. It deals with the ways in which, although we feel like society is pulling us apart if you look a little closer we've got more in common than you might think.

Later she moved to Nashville and co-managed a certain Garth Brooks. As she explained to me: "I was lucky enough to work with two phenomena in my career, one was MTV, the other was Garth Brooks."

who told about setting up the channel and how important British acts like Bowie and Duran Duran were in convincing American producers that music videos were the next big thing. Crazy to think given the ubiquity of YouTube and TikTok today.

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If you're at all into anything digital or the history of our modern world from the perspective of one who invented one of our most ubiquitous technologies of modern times, go read it.

In the second half of the book there's a thoughtful and salient conversation about web security, personal data, AI and social media.

And it's all narrated by Stephen Fry who is the perfect voice for the audiobook.

Most everything I've done in my life wouldn't have happened without the web. It was great to hear the story of how it developed, the geek reminders of dialup, AOL, Yahoo, coding in HTML, CSS and using FTP.

Why does BST Hyde Park continue to assume people will pay such ridiculous prices for a single ticket? And in the middle of a cost of living crisis! Think I'll go and see four smaller gigs instead.