With the recent boom in vinyl sales there's been an increased interest in the accompanying sleeve artwork - something a 99p iTunes download will always struggle to match. Amongst my own purchases there was one label's designs that made me sit up and take notice and that's Martyn's 3024 records.
You'll have to excuse the lack of updates lately - try as I might, I can't make an interesting blog entry out of the tales of sleepless nights and projectile poo that make up life with a newborn.
After almost nine whole months of waiting our first baby, Fergus Christopher Walsh, was born on Thursday the fifth of January at 9:57am in the Whittington Hospital Birth Centre weighing in at a healthy seven pounds and six ounces.
We've seen a lot happen to the world in 2011 but nothing quite as exciting or important as the events going on in the world of iamdanwalsh.com.
I dragged Kate along to the Barbican Centre last Friday night to see experimental Berliners Mouse On Mars performing Paeanumnion with musikFabrik as well as a performance from Oval and Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge.