I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.