Author Archives: Richard Graham

Prep + Printable Plan

This coming week is a very big week with lots of workshops, starting with a 2 day one in Okayama. So there was a ton of prep work to do, to make sure I had all the materials with me to do any of the themes if asked. Also, after talking to the teachers last…

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Fukuoka Maruzen – Favourite Flop, the rest was good

Bookstore gigs in Fukuoka are always good, with a great bunch of teachers who all know each other and happily I know quite a few of them now as well. Today was the follow up to the CD5 preview gig I did in March. So to start off was When, When, When which they really…

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2 schools, Favourite Flavour

I got a call at 8:30 this morning asking if I could do a workshop at a school today. A little short notice but I know the head teacher so was cool. But he wanted it in the afternoon and I was already booked, which I explained, so he said “That’s OK, you can do…

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MTV!

Right, it’s still Summer so I want to do some fun work! So today CNN was banned, and it was MTV over breakfast. Then the rest of the day was spent recording and remixing songs for the new adults CD. And I’ve decided to try something a bit radical with this CD… People have been…

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Need more caffeine

Doing workshops everyday really leaves you on a high, helping people out plus doing the actual songs and games is just fun!! So it was down to Earth with a bang today having to sit behind a computer! The fun bit is answering people’s emails, from all over the World, which is great. The boring…

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A Weekend in Guam

After 3 weeks on the road, and a good deal of production work done before that, here’s my Summer Holiday! Yeah!! Only two days, as that’s all the holiday my girlfriend gets, but it was great to go jet skiing, paragliding, snorkeling and just relax and do nothing! Guam’s a cool place, but I should…

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