Episode 1

The War

W/C 16th January 2022

There is a (welcome) return to rantiness this week, and it probably doesn't take a genius to work out what has got my dander up.

I happened to listen to the The Counterweight this week, which is a really great Thea Gilmore album from 2017. The War is the final track of the album proper and begins as a lyric in response to the senseless killing of Labour MP Jo Cox, a few miles down the road from where I am sat.

It talks to culture war, and social media and the preoccupation we have to sow division in the quest for power. And do you know what I fall for it every time, because as I rant away and scream into the void I am doing exactly what they want.

I need to look up, and be better. We all do.

'in a time of hate, throw down the counterweight

tear up that flag and say, you're worthy of more'

Stay safe.

The War - Thea Gilmore

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

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Anthony Short

I have been tinkering with audio since my mid-teens, recording songs & producing content for friends.

Post university I embraced the world of retail, firstly in supermarkets and later in & around the music instrument industry.

After 20 years or so, I took a sideways step into podcasting and began a venture called ashortstories, which helps in the development & production of podcasts for anyone that has a story to tell.