Just picked up one of these bad boys, on first listen the sound is oh so full and smooth.

Just picked up one of these bad boys, on first listen the sound is oh so full and smooth.

As part of the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Flatstock have put up an exhibition of showcasing some great music posters. Here’s some of my favourites:

Beirut - Gina Kelly

Fleet Foxes - Sean Mort

The Black Keys - Lars P. Krause

The Decemberists - Slowboy 

One word describing what I remember from each city I’ve visted.

London: Underground.
Brighton: Banksy.
Oxford: Intellects.
Liverpool: Skiffle.
Manchester: Spaghetti.
Dublin: Guinness.
Amsterdam: Canals.
Copenhagen: Bicycles.
Stockholm: Blonde.
Prague: Beer.
Krakow: Women.
Zakopane: Christmas.
Budapest: Bath.
Barcelona: Breeze. 

Note: some of these may be more based on the experience I had there as opposed to what you think would match the city. Such as spaghetti for Manchester. Also “Underground” for London is indeed a double meaning.

Just finished up a 6 night bus tour through Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. I hadn’t done an organized tour before and this totally exceeded my expectations. No need to worry about plane tickets or hostel bookings - just 7 days on a bus with 30 of the coolest people on the planet. My stomach is still in pain from the laughing. Today is tough. I’m hungover and everyone has disbanded to head on elsewhere. But looking through the photos is putting a smile back on my face. 

Just finished up a 6 night bus tour through Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. I hadn’t done an organized tour before and this totally exceeded my expectations. No need to worry about plane tickets or hostel bookings - just 7 days on a bus with 30 of the coolest people on the planet. My stomach is still in pain from the laughing.

Today is tough. I’m hungover and everyone has disbanded to head on elsewhere. But looking through the photos is putting a smile back on my face. 

storyboard: Liam Sarsfield of MetaLab on Building Tumblr Themes The idyllic seaside city of Victoria, British Columbia, is home to MetaLab, an interface design agency that’s discovered a profitable business in custom-built and à la carte Tumblr themes. So profitable, in fact, that themes are the main work product of a spinoff company called Pixel Union. Creative director Liam Sarsfield has strong opinions on what makes design beautiful — and how best to make it. When was MetaLab formed, and by whom? MetaLab was founded in 2006 by our commander-in-chief, Andrew Wilkinson. He had gone off to journalism school thinking that he wanted to change the world; he quickly realized that that wasn’t the way that he wanted to do it. He took up residence in his parent’s basement, and that’s how it started. Read More I got a shout out from Metalab & Liam Sarsfield! Feel chuffed.

storyboard:

Liam Sarsfield of MetaLab on Building Tumblr Themes

The idyllic seaside city of Victoria, British Columbia, is home to MetaLab, an interface design agency that’s discovered a profitable business in custom-built and à la carte Tumblr themes. So profitable, in fact, that themes are the main work product of a spinoff company called Pixel Union. Creative director Liam Sarsfield has strong opinions on what makes design beautiful — and how best to make it.

When was MetaLab formed, and by whom?

MetaLab was founded in 2006 by our commander-in-chief, Andrew Wilkinson. He had gone off to journalism school thinking that he wanted to change the world; he quickly realized that that wasn’t the way that he wanted to do it. He took up residence in his parent’s basement, and that’s how it started.

Read More

I got a shout out from Metalab & Liam Sarsfield! Feel chuffed.
Walked up a steep hill today.

Walked up a steep hill today.

Amplify Theme: Creating a page for upcoming shows

Amplify theme already integrates with Songkick so that you can display your next 5 upcoming shows in the sidebar.

What if you want to have a “shows” page which displays all your upcoming shows? Well you could do it manually, but why bother when I’ve created a little code snippet that does everything for you.

What you need to do copy the code below (between the dotted lines), then replace the text “SONGKICK_ARTIST_ID” with your Songkick artist ID. The artist ID can be found in the url of your artist’s upcoming shows on Songkick. For example, Radiohead’s songkick page is http://www.songkick.com/artists/253846-radiohead, therefore their artist ID is 253846-radiohead.

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<script src=”//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js”></script><script id=”songKickPage” type=”text/javascript” src=”http://static.tumblr.com/qxrkgx6/IQMm46lfk/songkick-page.js?songkickID=SONGKICK_ARTIST_ID”></script>

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Then, create a new page in Tumblr for your shows (or go edit your existing shows page if you already have one). Click on the “HTML” button in the text editor and paste the code in then hit save. 

If you did it correctly, you should now have a rocking shows page that looks similar to this:

The code supports all your blog’s customizations so it will slip right in to your blog’s existing style.

Also, if you don’t have a shows page, the link underneath the upcoming shows sidebar widget will just head straight to your Songkick page:

But if you do have a shows page, it makes more sense to just link to that instead so that users stay on your blog. So paste the full shows page url (e.g. http://www.yourbandname.tumblr.com/shows) into the “Upcoming Shows Page URL” text field. Amplify theme will pick that up and link the Songkick sidebar widget to your shows page: 

Here’s a demo of a show’s page using Radiohead’s Songkick account: http://amplifytheme.tumblr.com/shows

Have fun creating pages for your upcoming shows! If you run into any trouble - shoot me an email: william[at]rainbird.me

Best day so far in Europe - weather wise that is.

Best day so far in Europe - weather wise that is.

One of my favourite parts of travelling is doing just everyday things in each city. Was glad I captured me riding a bike in Copenhagen to go grab a cup of coffee. Enjoy. Music: Real Estate - Easy.

Creating a new Tumblr theme while drinking beer and pizza.

Creating a new Tumblr theme while drinking beer and pizza.