Early preview of Ty’s new single “Emotions”
By Mike Ashworth | March 3, 2010
Ty’s first single from his fourth album “Special kind of fool” will be a fantastic track titled “Emotions”. You can listen to the track via the youtube link below.
The single will drop on the 16th March followed by the album on 19th April.
Ty - Emotions feat. Sarina Leah & Shaun Escoffery
The album itself was a very personal journey for Ty (you can listen to more about this here) .
He’d recently been diagnosed with Diabetes and to cut a long story short, he had a realisation that his time was finite and therefore wanted this work to to convey much more than his previous material.
It’s all about the lyrics and the stories he tells and the messages he conveys. If this single is anything to go by this album could be a contender for best of 2010.
I’m looking forward to getting my hands on tracks from the album in the next few days from Ty, will report back.
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The lions face
By Mike Ashworth | March 1, 2010
I attended an amazing event on Saturday evening at the Corn Exchange in Brighton titled The Lions Face symposium.
This event was a preview of an opera which is going on tour soon and in addition a presentation and opportunity for the audience to ask questions of the creators.
There was one very different thing about this Opera. It is the first to have been created about Alzheimer’s.
Usually there are only two narratives associated with Alzheimer’s. One is that it is a terrible disease that robs a person of their self. The other that some incredible science is taking place which will eventually provide cures for this disease. The third narrative which is less observed are the stories of people, individuals, couples who are dealing with this disease on a day-to-day basis.
The Lion’s face explores the social, emotional and physical impacts of Alzheimer’s disease. Composer Elena Langer and Poet Glyn Maxwell have developed this opera through a collaborative research phase with Professor Simon Lovestone and his team at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College, London.
The Opera takes a typical care home, which is usually a closed environment, in that it contains patients and people treating the patient, and their families and injects a 13 year old girl into the equation.
Like Alice (from Alice in wonderland) she has rampaging curiosity about the patients of this care home and this is what takes place on the stage.
One of the things I discovered, and this is covered in the opera is a condition called agnosia. This is quite common with Alzheimer’s and it is where you fail to recognise objects you were once familiar with.
Imagine right now, a stranger stood in front of you, putting your shirt or blouse on for you. you’d be perhaps angry, terrified, annoyed?
Take this to another level and you have something called autoprosopagnosia. This is where you fail to recognise your own face.
Could you imagine that, looking in the mirror and seeing a face that you do not recognise. I’d find this frightening I think.
My father died from Alzheimers a number of years ago, when in his 60’s however we need to stop thinking about this disease as being a disease of old people only.
I read a story recently of a guy who had been diagnosed with Alzheimers at the age of 36. And in another story a boy of just 7 who had been diagnosed with a particular form of dementia.
Their was encouraging news about drug trials. 10 drugs are currently in Phase III of trials. Typically 90% of these do not make it to production. This means that one of these drugs may make-it however if they don’t there are 25 drugs in Phase III trials at present.
The opera will premiere at the Brighton Festival in May and then go on to tour some of the UK’s leading music and theatre venues.
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Some unusual jewellery
By Mike Ashworth | March 1, 2010
Someone told me about some rather interesting jewellery designed by a chap called Kiel Mead
These “forget me not” rings are rather cute I think.
Whilst some of his other creations seem, I dont know, just a little unusual….
How about a retainer (worn after braces removed)
Or a rather nifty gumshield
Perhaps you’ve always felt left out because you didn’t get taunted for having freckles. Never fear, these glasses have freckles “built in”
Or perhaps some well chewed gum
And finally.. Think that wearing a real camera round your neck is a bit too much? Here is a necklace with a small camera.
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New gym opening in Brighton
By Mike Ashworth | March 1, 2010
The Gym Group plans to open a new gym in Brighton this Spring.
It’s great to see a new gym opening in Brighton and the best thing is, they appear to have taken on board most people’s gripes which is usually associated with restrictive memberships.
They will be offering memberships with no joining fees and you will not be tied in to lengthy contracts either.
The promotional material also states there will be over 170 pieces of state of the art equipment and also (and this is a first I think) that it will be open 24 hours.
Be interesting to see how this pans out.
For a limited period they will be offering memberships at £9.99 per month. Sign up here
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Creative workspace in Brighton
By Mike Ashworth | February 25, 2010
If you are an individual or a Business working within the creative sector and looking for space in Brighton and Hove, this is a great resource to check out.
Creative workspaces in Brighton and Hove
It’s maintained by the Creative Brighton Organisation.
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All new action man
By Mike Ashworth | February 23, 2010
A new range of Action Man figures to be launched soon……
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from “big mick” to “fit mick” saturdays kettlebell class
By Mike Ashworth | February 21, 2010
Yesterday’s kettlebell class was hard work, however, as I am often prone to saying these days, their is no growth in comfort (or being comfortable) you have to keep pushing.
Part of our warm-up routine consisted of the following.
10 press-ups
10 kettlebell explosions
10 sit-ups
10 kettlebell chest press
10 double handed swings
We worked in pairs, writing down our times after each round. Sunny went first, then me. Then we repeated the drill.
My times were
round 1: 1 minute 20 seconds
round 2: 1 minute 12 seconds
Then to really push us for round 3 we did it all again except this time we each did the above routine twice over, without a break.
You’d think that perhaps you’d be so knackered from the first two rounds (and doing two sets one after the other) that your times would be a lot worse however get this…
Round 3: (all of the above twice over) 2 minutes 28 seconds
Now that is actually quicker than the first two rounds added together (and when we did those I got a break in between them)
Their is a lot of psychology involved in this stuff and it fascinates me how when we push ourselves we can achieve so much.
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Sean Collins rocks
By Mike Ashworth | February 21, 2010
Spent last night at Komedia in Brighton with a friend, some fantastic acts, however the highlight of the show was Sean Collins.
Here are some clips of a previous performance.
If you ever get a chance to see him, do, your face will be hurting from laughing so much.
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