The other day, I went over to Paris for a big event in Paris Couture. Yasmin and I took a very early Euro-Star, but since we booked really late, we stayed at a Four-Star-Hotel called The Regina. Now that may sound a bit poncy to you, but when we’re on tour, we always stay in Five Star Hotels – I…

Saturday/March 20/2010

Last spring, at a meet and greet in the bar of a Beverly Hills hotel, New Roads School headmaster David Bryan asked Gela and I if we had any ideas how we could help the school celebrate their tenth anniversary. Ideally, best done by raising large amounts of cash. New Roads is a very untypical school in the…

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Day 1 of JT’s 30 in 30

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(a poem)

BARCELONA

There is not one person staying in this hotel
who would rather not be somewhere else.
At home in bed with a warm wife perhaps,
or watching a son play soccer on a winter field,
or walking the dog along a leafy street &
(waving hello to the neighbours).
Helping daughter…

I am writing this from Lima Peru, which has become my adopted second home over the last few years. I travel 17 hours to get here from London, but as soon as I step out from the airport, feel the warm evening breeze and hear the chatter and bustle of this most unique South American city, I know I have…

I have always found a visit to Tokyo can provide a torrent of untainted inspiration, so on a recent trip, I enquired of my local friend Adam, “What can you show me here that I may not have seen before?” He helpfully offered an Ice bar where absolutely everything is carved out of ice, or did I fancy being spoon…

A short one: Wednesday January 20th, the band returned to their London studio to review the tracks we recorded last year for the new album. We are due to commence work with Mark Ronson again during the first week of February. The backing tracks are mostly complete on fourteen different songs, I still have a little recording to do, but…

Here are my Art & Duran favourites of 2009:

Art highlights:

The Surrealist Photo exhibit at the Pompidou Center in Paris

The Ed Ruscha exhibit at the Hayward, Southbank Centre, London

Anish Kapoor exhibit at the Royal Academy, London

The Pop Life exhibit featuring Haring, Koons, Warhol and more at the Tate Modern, London

The John Baldessari show at Tate…

Here’s my list, in no particular order:

-Headlining the Lovebox Music Festival in London. It was our first UK Festival and a very special show for us.

- DJ’ing in Cielo in New York City with Jake. It just felt very legitimate, and in my favorite city!

- Seeing Mott the Hoople’s first performance in thirty years with Dom and…

Favorite Single: “Rabbit Heart” by Florence and the Machines
Favorite Album: Only by the Night by Kings of Leon
Favorite Composer: Henry Purcell (an English Baroque composer)
Favorite Film: The Hurt Locker
Favorite Book: The Twelve by Stuart Neville
Biggest Disappointment: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Favorite Sporting Event: United won the Premiership and…

“Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from me to all of you!”- JT

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