Graham Dunning

I’ve updated the links page on the website today with two things: a list of most of the people I have collaborated with (and, in some cases, continue to work with) and a list of local venues I often go to.

As I move away from commercial social media, I’m trying to find ways to keep connections and networks visible and viable. The site doesn’t have a “blogroll” as such, but this serves as an alternative: a way to link through to people I’ve worked with and whose work I want to promote. I may add a little more info about each, a few words biography or description perhaps, but also want to try and keep things minimal. I expect I’ll also find this page useful for myself when mentioning people in posts and wanting to link through to their sites.

I put together the venues list for another reason. London is so busy with stuff happening that you have to get used to the sense of FOMO: you can’t see everything you want to, totally spoilt for choice, so have to pick your battles. Occasionally, like today, I find myself with a spare evening and want to find a gig or event to go to. There’s no centralised place for listings now – where I might once have browsed a paper copy of Time Out or, later, searched on facebook, I now find myself clicking through loads of individual venues’ and promoters’ listings to find events. Which is fine. The centralised platforms inevitably fill up with spam, rubbish you’ve no interest in, or miss out most underground stuff which doesn’t engage with it. This list of links is really for me to be able to find stuff quickly. I’ll endeavour to keep it updated. It may also be useful to point out-of-town visiting friends to when they’re looking for something (mainly why I included the location info on the venues list).

The intention of both lists is to be useful as a resource, mainly for myself but perhaps for one or two others too.