I started this site because I wanted an archive for my printed best bits. After I left Blowback Magazine I created a portfolio of copy written for mostly whatsonuk and Blowback.
I spent a year freelancing and continued to collect all of my work together here. I also started the Silver Skins podcast intended to be an audio version of Blowback.
After this I became East Midlands Life editor for Metro Newspapers. I still collected my extra-curricular freelance work here. When I left Metro I asked if I could keep a portfolio of work on this site. This will be added in the next few weeks.
After Metro I started on an MA in Online Journalism. My adventures and experiments in Online Journalism were blogged about on the all singing and all dancing Track 23.
I intended to export this site to my self hosted pages but I’ve bought a fair bit of space on here for Silver Skins. Besides because I now also advise on Social Media I quite like the idea of seeing what this free blog is capable of.
October 11th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
good one dan. the mike skinner piece is great. reminds me of how shakespears good guys speak in rhymn all the time with fully rounded sentances that shine, while the bad guys flag, sag, and remain bad.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
That was actually the first one I put up as ot occurred to me that even people who knew my Blowback work might not know this hidden gem.
https://dandavies23.wordpress.com/tag/the-streets/
March 8th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Where’s this article gone:
What do you know about 4talent? Well I’ve known about IDEASfactory …
By dandavies23
4talent to me seems to have more in relation the central goals of Channel4. From the section division I can see that the Talent Development schemes have been brought in line with feeding more into Channel 4. …
March 8th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
This article was on the back end of my site. I was considering interviewing myself as an introduction to this site. This extract was part of a Q&A session with myself. Then I decided I was perhaps disappearing up my own ‘back end.’
March 9th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Have you ever seen Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill? There’s a great scene in that where William Hurt (Nick) interviews himself with a big ol’ 80s video camera on a fat ol’ 80s TV.
March 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
It’s ringing a small bell! If I haven’t seen it I’m imagining William Hurt doing it…will have to check it out again.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Did you get round to watching it? (if not, do yourself a favour – great soundtrack)
December 5th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Hi Dan, did you do a review of my band-dubrovnik?
December 11th, 2007 at 12:28 am
I’m sorry I didn’t. I saw you at Ashton Court but unfortunately I didn’t review that year. You’ll have to let me know when you’re playing. I often come down to Bristol.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Hi Dan, nice podcast – when is it gonna be ready for iTunes?
It reminds me of this other Brazilian podcats that’s cool, check it out, Monkey Show – http://rraurl.uol.com.br/podcasts/monkeyshow/
Your Brumsilian amigo!
Dave
May 30th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Hello Dan. Good work on the podcast behaviour.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 am
Thanks a Brazillion for the support Dave. Much appreciated. I tried to subscribe to that podcast but I got an error message. Was tricky to work it out in a foreign lanuguage! Give it a shot again soon. Podmass should be ready for iTunes or any other podcast collector now.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 am
Nice one thanks Jon!
May 24th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Greetings Dan..My first time in this part of town so I’m just soaking up the atmosphere..I was given this link by a Smooth FM news presenter…I’ve already heard some stuff thats new to me, thanks..subscribed to the podcast waiting for it to download to itunes.
Have you heard of http://brummusicmonth.wordpress.com/ ? It’s new to me, just been turned on by one of the organisers, Thought the link might be of interest to you.It looks like a cool initiative, raising awareness of Birmingham’s music scene…its a beautiful Sunday, so I won’t spend all day on a computer.. cheers..BTUB40 http:www.ub40.co.uk
May 24th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Brilliant thanks Brian. There’s also track listing on the separate post pages should you need to find out any of those new tracks. I’m just putting together SS7 so hopefully that’ll drop in soon. But to be honest the garden’s calling me too!
May 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Cheers Dan..Back online as you can see BUT only briefly to say having problem downloading podcast to itunes…i notice someone else ‘Dave’ mentioned it also..anyway..thanks for reply.BTUB40
May 24th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Hi Brian is the problem that it keeps timing out? (starts downloading then stops half way?)
I think this is to do with traffic. Think it should download at quieter times. I should try downloading to a more stable site. If you’ve got any ideas then let me know.
If it doesn’t start downloading at all, try pasting this link directly into iTunes.
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/OneManDansDump
You can download direct by going to the separate pages in this blog and ‘right click – save target as’ on the links:
https://dandavies23.wordpress.com/category/podcasts/
Or you can get through facebook
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125496&id=574991334&saved#/group.php?gid=43793119519&ref=ts
Think that’s it.
Oh and check out this on DJ Reach – some of the links are broke now but you get the idea:
https://dandavies23.wordpress.com/category/dj-reach/
May 26th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Thanks Dan..its timing out..i’ll try again….later..BTUB40