Ian McHugh
Ian McHugh
I've always wanted to find out more about stuff. Since I was a kid this compulsion has lead me down many paths.
I got into technology as many kids of the 80's did, with a Sinclair Spectrum, which despite my protests to the contrary was used solely for games. But it got me started, got me understanding, got me hooked. Now one of the things I do is maintain computers for a major retailer and several private customers. Another is use my own computer skills in the persuit and furtherment of my other career.
Music started the same way, a very good friend was hanging out in the music room at school playing a guitar, he bent a string, and suddenly I had to know all about it, and thus my journey into the belly of the blues started. Thanks to that one moment I've found myself fronting a band playing to thousands ant international festivals (Birmingham and Marlborough Jazz festivals), recording and writing my own songs, and now presenting a radio show. But not just presenting, the skills I learned while recording my own music mean that I'm the engineer and producer too. The show, Blues is the Truth goes out every Monday on UK Jazz Radio to upwards of 100,000 people.
Then there's the photography. At 2 years old I took my first picture, I can, surprisingly, remember it. It was at the Queens Silver Jubilee. It was of some soldiers, who's heads I cut off. Still the facination that you could point this box at something, press a button and get in return the exact image of that something had me hooked. Now days, having studied some photography, I have a pretty good grounding in what makes a great image, so no more visual decapitations (unless that's the idea) and plenty of great photos, mainly of bands and musicians.
Finally the writing and blogging. I like words, I like what they can do, how they can move, inform, guide and influence. How some marks on paper or a screen can cause a person to laugh or cry. Me being me, I wanted to find out if I could do it. I think I'm OK, some people think I'm great.
It's the same with all of it, hopefuly you'll like what I do, and want to find out more...
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