I'm supposed to be building Damien Dempsey's new web site, but I'm somewhat distracted by this and ease of the BlogEngine.NET install on my web server (good work boys!)
I'm Oliver 38 year old fella with own web production company which consists of me. Some call it free-lancing, I call it having my own company coz it sounds better. I don't go so far as to answer the phone in different voices (reminding me of the hotel Hells Bells in Carry on Abroad) www.digred.com
My wife is Kate 36, she has always worked in the music biz since leaving school, never earning more than £20k pa as she will tell people who immediately assume she is some jumped up high roller. Kate works with me from home, we have a nice office in our house and a helper for Kate, Rachel. Kate and Rachel are music biz administrators for various clients - record companies, publishers, management companies - all pretty small outfits.
We are in North Yorkshire, God's own county of course, we're not religious.
We moved from London in 2000. I used to be a recording engineer, working with some quite big names whilst not actually being very good. I did an M.Sc at UCL in computer science which ultimately lead me to being sat here, not working on Damo's web site.
The village where we live is where Kate grew up on the farm. My Father-in-law Tim is a retired farmer. It's all dropping into place now isn't it! What do farmer's have. Fields and knackered old Manatoo fork-lifts.
So we live in a barn conversion, given to us by Tim, built by us (well I fitted the kitchen) whilst we had three kids. We are middle class and consious of it in a slightly uncomfortable way.
Anyway. Tim was given some park land as a wedding present along with 9 cafetieres, we've all been there. It is beautiful. It is working farm land but has for certain had some landscaping done to it over the centuries. In the corner of the park is an old deer shed - an 'L' shaped building which the deer used to shelter in. Kate and her siblings hold the park in high regard, the place where they all played as kids with no supervision - then kids actually played out on farm machinery. Ahhh.
So we have the land, the contacts, the friends to help, 'some' money, not much time - but youngest does go to school proper in September. We want to put on a music and arts festival, targeted at all age groups, in the park in the summer of 2010. It will be called Deer Shed 2010 unless I change my mind.
We're going to take some shots over the weekend, and then I'll tell you where we are at in the organisation. The whole thing is already the only thing that Kate thinks about.
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