Jez Ford
A BIG G'DAY TO YOU ALL…

www.twitter.com/jezford


Nationality: British & Australian!
E-mail: jford@next.com.au

THIS IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST WEBSITES. But thank you for finding it - most likely finding it through a Google search for "Jez Ford". It seems no matter what I do, how many tech sites and websites I am involved with, this page from, ooh, 1998 remains - indeed has recently returned to - the number one hit. A sign that even Google gets it plain bonkers on occasion. And today, after EIGHT YEARS, I have found a way to edit it again. The THRILL!

GEARE & B'JEZUS: So, the most recent entry on this website is here , but I can more reliably be found through Geare magazine or, of course, through the magnificent output of B'Jezus, our website being www.bjezus.com and some of our music being downloadable here. Enjoy...

TWITTER & FACEBOOK: For the most regular if somewhat random updates, visit/follow me at www.twitter.com/jezford, or genuine friends can get me through www.facebook.com/jezford. If any other thrilling social networking sites become popularly embedded before I get back to updating this again, I'll probably be there too...

ANCIENT LINKS: Anyway, below you'll find the very old and original pages, now among the oldest internet pages in existence, so they may now be yellowing and curling up at the edges. These relate to my pre-Australia life, with links to anything linkable, thoughts about anything thinkable, and more memories than you've a right to find in public space. The web is wide indeed, oh searchers of truth…

THE SCHOOLING

South Bromsgrove High School - 11 'O' levels, 4 'A' levels and, more importantly, the birthing place of the loudest and most influential rock outfit ever to grace this humble planet - click here for the thrilling and downright sexy FLEM online... Now with added MP3s...

THE COLLEGE EDUCATION

Nottingham University - 1982-85, bringing a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, which was a dreadful error of judgement for what I'd hoped was actually an electronic music course. Still the combination did result in the founding of Radio Wap, a stint at URN, and the long holidays spent tightening the hot progressive moods of Galadriel, later to become Edge, giants of the '13/8 rhythm' music scene. We were big in Rome, I tell you. Want the mp3. It's here, no messing.

WORK Once real work became unavoidable, I joined the world of hardened consumer journalism. An apprenticeship on ETI, an electronics monthly, turned into a rather alarming editorship, enabling me to jump headlong into What Hi-Fi? magazine, working on which has become something of a habit over the years.

As has travelling (see below). Somewhere in the middle, I returned to stomp my metal bootiemarks into the relaunch of Stuff magazine - oh, no not that one, this one...,. Lotsafun, stuff to play with. Please, please no, not the payola investigation...

TRAVELLING
There was the F***ing Us Tour of Europe in summer 1982, then nothing much until a jaunt to Egypt in 1988. Then India in 1990 convinced me that rather larger spans of time were necessary to adequately experience the world. I left in June 1991 and went through Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand (worked teaching English and playing piano in the Currency whisky bar), Taiwan (English teaching), Australia, New Zealand, Australia again, Indonesia, then Thailand and India + Nepal on the way home. Arrived for Christmas 1994. A press trip in 1997 brought Deannainto my life, and our union gave birth to an emigration plan. And yea, we arriveth in Australia with a big grin on our faces, and the custom mans he sayeth "Welcome to Australia."
Now with international business publishers Stroudgate just a hop and a jump from the blue harbour in sunny Manly.

MUSIC is a rolling on! Check out the B'Jezus website, or better still, download the tracks from the first album The Harbour Sessions. A new album is on the way!

LINKS…
Main home page
The very latest tale
An online cv, should you require one
Off once more...: From mind to webpage - why can't this bloke sit still?
On doing nothing...:Why thinking without input speeds up your brain
Led Zeppelin: A little tribute to the boys...
What Hi-Fi? magazine: Hey it was work, but we felt music in our souls…
Radio Wap: It goes back awhiles, but, er... well, I'll let Spot the dog explain...