“If music be the food of love…”

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do, I Do It For You

If music is the food of love, then Valentine’s Day is indeed the perfect time to “play on”!

William Shakespeare certainly had the right idea when waxing lyrical about the magic of music, encouraging lovers everywhere to engage in the power of song to express their feelings.

And what better time is there, than the annual celebration of love and affection that is Valentine’s, to tell your beloved that you are theirs forever through the lyrics of a well composed song?

From Bryan Adams vowing that Everything I Do, I Do It For You and Joan Armatrading promising Love and Affection to Madness proclaiming It Must Be Love, the song books are littered with the ‘perfect’ tune to convey the most appropriate sentiment for the day.

Shooting stars

As a photo-journalist, over the years I’ve been snapping some of the music industry’s great and good to accompany my published writing.

So I’ve selected a few of my favourite images to create a gallery of music artists striking a pose that I thought you may enjoy.

Take a peek and enjoy the spirit of the performance again…

Whiskey in the jar

Januarys are pretty unattractive.

At least, they usually are. Post-Christmas blues, gloomy cold weather and to make it worse, I’ve been keeping off the alcohol all month in an attempt to do a ‘dry January’.

But this year, there has been a little shot of excitement with the management of a shoot for rock photographer Nick Elliott on location with classic rockers Thin Lizzy.

The first part of the shoot was in a studio in Bedfordshire where the band, complete with full stage set, was going through an entire rehearsal prior to the start of their tour the next day in Glasgow.

CAT’s nine lives of 2011

It's going to be a crazy crazy night!

As I was getting ready for the Hogmanay celebrations, I was mulling over the past year and began to recount some of the wonderful opportunities 2011 had presented.

So, as one year ends and another begins, it seems an appropriate time to share my best nine lives of 2011…

Merry Christmas!

The twelve clients of Christmas

As a consultant I’m on the constant look-out for opportunities to promote my clients and, with time at a premium, it is often difficult to dedicate any effort to promoting myself!

So, this festive season, I decided to create a small campaign to raise awareness of the range of services I offer amongst existing clients and to encourage potential clients to commission me.

Having cultivated a decent amount of followers on the social networking sites I’m active on, I decided to use this medium to communicate a simple message on a daily basis, with a view to creating repetition and cultivating expectation.

To tie in with the season, I chose to adapt the festive classic The 12 Days of Christmas incorporating details of an existing or past client, details of a service or skill, and driving traffic through to my website.The ultimate call to action was to commission me…obviously!

Paws for thought

With a business name like CAT, my eye is often drawn to sayings, stories or quotes about my namesake.  Some see them as adorable creatures, others a mere pests, but either way, cats have their very own characters.

So I’ve collected a few of my favourite quotes about cats for you to ponder on and, of course, to consider how it relates to my business here at CAT…