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Mar 29

Moblog Highlights

Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 in Gallery, Photography

This is really another gallery test….these are all* the images I’ve had highlighted (deemed as outstanding by the site moderators) on my moblog at MoblogUK.

*Some images are missing as the new Wordpress gallery function is misbehaving, I’ll add them at a later date once the bugs are ironed out.

Mar 29

Gallery Test

Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 in Family, Fun, Gallery, Personal, Photography

I’ve upgraded my blog to Wordpress version 2.5, so I thought I’d test the built in gallery function with a few photos from a recent stag do my brothers and I went on…

Mar 28

Manimal

Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 in Family, Music, Personal

About a month ago we had the big party to celebrate my youngest brother Alex’s 18th Birthday. We hired a venue, invited 100+ people and put on a great night of music, food and drink. I can’t remember the last time I had so much fun, all of my close friends and family were there, and it was the best 18th Birthday party I’ve ever attended!For one night only the band ‘Manimal’ was born – this consisted of myself, my brothers (Stat and Al), our cousin Steve, long suffering front-man The Dicko, and as previously mentioned a special guest appearance by my Dad aka ‘Fishman’. We played a 15 song set which included a couple of original tunes from our regular band ‘Scrat‘ and a bunch of party-friendly covers.

Check out the video above of us performing Bryan Adam’s ‘Summer of ‘69′, which ironically was the year my Dad left school…more video can be found on my YouTube Channel here.

Mar 25

Do Not Adjust Your Monitor!

Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 in Bloggging, Family, Personal

James D Clarke
‘The Middle Of Yesterday’ is no more, I’m now blogging under a new domain name; ‘www.jamesdclarke.com’. I’ve decided to switch my blog over to a new domain name – my own name!

I’ve done this for a couple of reasons, firstly because it’s becoming harder and harder to get your hands on good dot com domain name, and secondly in an attempt to build my online profile/brand – something that is becoming more and more important these days (or so I am told), especially when using the internet to make a living as I do. There’s a lot of James Clarkes with an ‘E’ out there – so I decided the time was right to bag my name whilst I still could.

Hopefully my Mom will be pleased about the ‘D’ for Douglas as I was rather ashamed of my middle name as a kid. I remember vividly the only time I got a proper slap around the face from her – I was 10 or 11 years old and we were in the car on the way home from my birthday party at McDonald’s (I was too young to know any better then), my two best mates were in the car and grilling me about my middle name. I was tight lipped, however my Mother (ever the protagonist) told them both, to which I quickly yelled “you bitch!” and SLAP, there it was!

So, I apologise for calling you a bitch Mom, but you shouldn’t have wound me up. I hope you like my new domain name!

Mar 20

Jack McManus – ‘Bang On The Piano’ video

Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 in Music, Work, You Tube

Check out the video for Jack’s upcoming debut single ‘Bang On The Piano’, released April 28th on Polydor Records.

This video was directed by my good friend Simon Willows, who has yet again done a great job. Keep your eyes peeled for the ‘making of’ video which will be online shorty and is also brilliant!