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So, I’ve recently finished my first assignment for my MA in Music Business and I thought it would be worth sharing some of the thinking behind it here, because a lot of it touches on things that have been rattling around in my head for a while — things about Stoke, about live music, about…
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Well, it’s been some time since I posted on here. I did start to write something at the end of 2025 but I just couldn’t get my thoughts down without breaking down. You see, it’s been a tough few months and every time I felt like I was coming out of the other side, something…
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READ ALL ABOUT IT! I was asked if I could be interviewed for The Sentinel, our local newspaper, at the weekend and it was printed in today’s edition. You can have a read below. Just give it a click to open it in a new tab and make it bigger. Featured Image by Tim Mossholder…
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After having twelve months away from studying, I am now looking into it again with the intention of diving into a Masters in Music Business. However, in an era where knowledge is just a click away, I’m starting to question whether a traditional formal education is still relevant. As someone who pursued a music degree,…
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After 10 years, I’ve decided to distance myself from the username that I’ve had across all of my social media platforms and the name of my podcast, Shingler’s List. I explained in my last blog post where the name originated for me and it’s obvious links to the movie Schindler’s List. As I’ve progressed in…
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It’s no big secret and/or it’s easy to connect where the name ‘Shingler’s List’ came from. My name is David Shingler. My surname sounds very similar to that of Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), a man who is recognised for having saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by hiring them to work at his…
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The 26th January 2019 was the first day of five years, five months and 28 days of doing something that I should have done twenty-two years ago. It was the first day that work commenced on a feet first decision that I made just a few short months earlier, the decision to obtain a music…
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Forty three years after its home media release and fifty four years since its original theatrical release, Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s controversial documentary film ‘Let It Be’ has been given the 4K treatment and is once again available for the world to see via the streaming platform Disney+. When I heard the news I initially thought “what’s…
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I was hoping to get this written down a little sooner but life happened. To be fair, I was hoping to blog more often this year too but once again, life happened! As some of you will know, I have been studying part time for the last few years. I had the urge to get…
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Do you ever get that feeling that you have lost sense of who you are? I kind of feel like that’s where I am at the moment. It’s a feeling that I’m all too familiar with but it hasn’t been around to visit for a while! The other day I posted an image to Instagram.…
