Blog - Restless Dreams

Since setting out as a songwriter/recorder/releaser my social media feeds have become completely overrun with all things ‘independent musician’. This is a blessing and a curse...

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February 25, 2023

Synthetic Symphonies Part III: The End

Rob Jones

I can’t help but be haunted by a darkly prophetic vision of the year 2030, or 2035, or 2045, or whenever it might be...

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February 10, 2023

Synthetic Symphonies Part II: ABBAtar

Rob Jones

What about the now very conceivable world of the near future, in which digital pop-stars perform music of their own creation? In which the human being has been removed entirely from the equation? It begs the question: just how central is the human experience to the creation of art?

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February 2, 2023

Synthetic Symphonies Part I

Rob Jones

Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on the average microchip doubles, on average, every two years...

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January 25, 2023

The Master of Dreams

Rob Jones

I tend to save my January introspection for the last week of the month. The first two I like to spend somewhere sunny and my birthday is on the 23rd. So, this week, I’ve been wrestling with my ‘new year goals’ and a line from ‘If’ has been ringing around in my head.

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January 9, 2023

The British in Africa

Rob Jones

(The following poem was typed hastily into an iPhone in Senegambia, a tourist resort where the Gambia River meets the Atlantic.)

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December 24, 2022

Merry Covermas

Rob Jones

The venue is far too brightly lit and covered in plastic ornaments for my liking. It’s one of a soulless national chain of yuppie watering holes that appeal precisely to those lacking any imagination.

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December 15, 2022

The Nirvana Effect

Rob Jones

In Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys, Mr Irwin tells his Oxbridge hopefuls that, in the world of historical scholarship, ‘there is no period so remote as the recent past’.

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December 1, 2022

Other Voices

Rob Jones

In some real sense, the only thing that separates me from a person deem-able insane by productive society is the fact that my internal monologue remains internal.

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November 16, 2022

Dreams

Rob Jones

On Monday night, following a fairly intense weekend, I was woken several times by a dream (nightmare?) that became serialised in the bouts between waking.

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November 9, 2022

Writer's Block

Rob Jones

It’s no surprise to me that the ancient Greeks and Romans believed that seven typically capricious goddesses were responsible for artistic inspiration.

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November 2, 2022

Money for Nothing

Rob Jones

The music business has changed. Or so we’re often told.

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October 26, 2022

The Studio's Appendix

Rob Jones

The studio space we use is the dusty, three-roomed corner of a mysterious ‘business park’ near the Curry Mile where, I imagine, all sorts goes on without anybody really being able to describe precisely what.

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October 17, 2022

Radio, Radio

Rob Jones

Great lyricists can inhabit a character the way great novelists do. Occasionally, that character might be an amplified version of themselves; occasionally it’s an entirely fictional creation.

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October 10, 2022

Andrea Del Sarto's Treadmill...

Rob Jones

One of my favourite lines of Robert Browning’s has always been the often-quoted Andrea Del Sarto’s rhetorical question: ‘Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?’

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October 6, 2022

Beginnings...

Rob Jones

Our beginnings seem to be the conjoined twins of our endings in internet pop-psychology. Every phoenix, by definition, seems to need its flames. One just can’t be mentioned without the other.

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A COLLECTION OF

January Man

A Rainy Night in Soho

The End of Culture

Faust, Farms and Facebook

Police Cars and Oracles

Resisting September

The Imposter

Trees

On Gratitude

Who Am I?

Thunder and Lightning

Time

Who Knew That Love Could Cut So Deep?

Sisyphus (or 'Learning to Love the Stone')

Booze and Music Videos

The Road to Release

Fate, and Other Nonsense

George Orwell's Dump

The 'Artist'

Synthetic Symphonies Part III: The End

Synthetic Symphonies Part II: ABBAtar

Synthetic Symphonies Part I

The Master of Dreams

The British in Africa

Merry Covermas

The Nirvana Effect

Other Voices

Dreams

Writer's Block

Money for Nothing

The Studio's Appendix

Radio, Radio

Andrea Del Sarto's Treadmill...

Beginnings...

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