Jamie McCarthyJan 6, 2018Finding What You Didn’t Know You Wanted.6th January 2018. Stating a preference when looking for something might sometimes save you time in finding what you think you want, but o...
Jamie McCarthyJan 2, 2018Depression Signals a Faulty Society, Not a Faulty Human Being.2nd January 2018. The end of 2017 was a bad time for me. The ghosts, the night-demons, the self-gnawing destroyers were out for me. I had...
Jamie McCarthyDec 27, 2017The Feelings of Being an Imposter Tell Us Something About the World We're In - Not About Ourselves.27th December 2017. I couldn’t sleep after 5.20 am. I woke up thinking about something I’d said to Radu yesterday – basic stuff about ‘fa...
Jamie McCarthyOct 12, 2017With Best Wishes ...Your Freelance Colleague.12th October 2017. Dear and most cherished friends and co-workers in employed positions in the arts and education, I’m writing this to as...
Jamie McCarthyJul 30, 2017Tired.30th July 2017. Tired of the snobbery. Tired of having to negotiate decent wages and working conditions on every new job. Tired of elitis...
Jamie McCarthyJul 24, 2017Music as Weather.24th July 2017. It's to do with the way things change - slowly - sometimes imperceptibly and then sometimes apparently suddenly. How ther...
Jamie McCarthyFeb 21, 2017Making Music - The Gardening Metaphor.21st February 2017. I’ve been thinking these last few days how sometimes the way I approach making sound / music is like gardening. The r...
Jamie McCarthyNov 16, 2016I'm Alright With My Self-Reflective Bubble of Like Minds Ta.16th November 2016. Getting more and more pissed-off with the accusation that anyone on the left who uses social media is living in a sel...
Jamie McCarthyOct 29, 2016Just Because We’re Tired of Hearing About Something Doesn’t Stop it From Causing Harm.29th October 2016. Bored Now It’s interesting, isn’t it, how we get bored of unpleasant things? How empathy only lasts for a while. We ca...
Jamie McCarthyOct 21, 2016Stories From the U.K. 'Benefits' System: 5.21st October 2016. This story may seem a little melodramatic, written a little too large... but I can guarantee it is simply true. The re...
Jamie McCarthyOct 20, 2016Stories From the U.K. 'Benefits' System: 4.20th October 2016. 'Good news. This is the last time I'll be in. I'm signing off. I start work on Monday.' 'Congratulations. That's great...
Jamie McCarthyOct 19, 2016Stories From the U.K. 'Benefits' System: 3.19th October 2016. 'Well I'm afraid this demonstrates a pattern of unemployment at this time of year that you should have taken into acco...
Jamie McCarthyOct 18, 2016Stories From the U.K. 'Benefits' System: 2.18th October 2016. 'Oh we're not signing-on officers anymore, we're 'Jobsearch Coaches.' 'Oh right - did they give you some coaching trai...
Jamie McCarthyOct 17, 2016Stories From the U.K. 'Benefits' System: 1.17th October 2016. If anyone thinks this story or the story from the film 'I Daniel Blake' is exaggerated or uncommon, think again. I've ...
Jamie McCarthyMay 17, 2016Louange à Léternité de Saint Erik.17th May 2016. Louange à L'éternité de Saint Erik Upon this 150th anniversary of thy birth All praise to thee Saint Erik Patron of the mu...
Jamie McCarthyMay 15, 2016The Colonisation of Social Space for Arts Promotion.15th May 2016. I’ve always been a bit slow on the uptake. I nearly always just about begin to ‘get’ something when it’s on its way out. H...
Jamie McCarthyApr 20, 2016Playing for a Dance Class as Folk Dance.21st April 2016. I play for more dance classes now than I used to. I was very nervous to begin with, because I'd seen really experienced ...
Jamie McCarthyApr 13, 2016An Example of Sound / Music in A Dance-Making Process.13th April 2016. 'I Live In It' (With Sue Mayo, Chuck Lowry and Magic Me). (An inter-generational dance piece for older women and girls /...
Jamie McCarthyJan 25, 2016Forgetting What I Meant to Do in Making a Piece of Music.25th January 2016 So often, when I'm making recorded sound pieces, I only manage to discover things when I am able / have enough time / d...
Jamie McCarthySep 17, 2015Making Things Into ‘A Thing’.17th September 2015. I’ve been thinking lately about how I get kind of disappointed when things become ‘a thing’. For example, where I li...