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I've always wanted to write a theatrical memoir. Something spicy and profound, full of reflections on The Seagullyet enlivened bygossip, rumour and the more genitally-focused exploits of the celebri...

I have been, once again, remiss in my duties as host here at ist Towers. No blogs, no mass messaging sprees, no nude photographs of myself holding a less than strategically-placed mandolin, no utterly...

As is very often the case, it took me a long time to discover what it was that I wanted to do with my life. In the environment in which I grew up, there were only really two career options: window-cle...

I've long held that writing songs is like having children. Sometimes you plan for them, erecting cribs in the spare room before she's even got her jeans unbuttoned. And sometimes you're just too lazy ...

Morning boys and girls, I will be getting back to the track by track discussion of the album shortly, but it's time to let you finally listen to the new songs. So, yes, ahead of our coming announcemen...

Ah, another day - another track to dissect. You are such lucky people. Being so blessed as to be able to listen to me ramble on, and on, and on... I hope you're drinking while you do it. It makes it m...

Hello, faithful listeners (and, of course, you slatternly ones at the back who only show up for the occasional emotionally traumatic yet extremely erotic booty call). It's a strange old tim.

Just to remind y'all, ist will be retaking the stage for the first time in far too long, this Friday, June 6th at Sumo, Leicester. If you're around or can be around, please drop by and give us a good ...

Hello my snood-wearing chums.I thought it only right to keep you fed with the random thoughts of ist while our resident Chief Blogger is off on his jolly jaunt in Italy, rubbing limbs with the collect...

On Sunday morning, I head out to my second Italian writing retreat as hosted by young Mr. Christopher Henry Difford, and mentioned, if I recall correctly, in a recent WORD podcast. It's quite an expe...

Not only can I "say Saskatchewan without starting to stutter" but I was born there. It's a flat, strange place, surrounded entirely by wheat and its smaller towns and cities, like my hometown of Estev...

Over the last few months, we've seen yet another spate of so-called "revolutionary" promotional ideas cropping up in the world of music, largely, it would seem, as attempts to either stem, or perhaps ...

http://www.istianity.co.uk A spangly update of the official ist website launched today. Please do drop by, leave your love on the forum and let us know what you'd like to see more or less of... &nbsp..;.

When I first moved to England from my native Canada, *cough cough* years ago, I had been brought up in an environment where the only real musical arguments that ever ensued were over exactly HOW Canad...

One of the most mystifying elements of being involved with music, as a performer, a writer or, indeed, a listener is the concept of fandom. Now, I admit freely that I have been a fan, with a fair deg...

Last night, as is often the way with me, I found myself pondering. It's activity fraught with peril, as it is basically an internalised version of pontificating down the pub, without the benefit of a)...