Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2011

Brierly Hill 90210

I had started a new job in 2010 after spending the best part of a year out of work. I was now a project manager and integration consultant working for a start-up company in New York. 2011 saw me working on an assignment on Wall Street in the city. That meant 4 hours on Amtrak and 2 hours on the New York subway each day. Musically, the long train rides coincided with me having no music to listen to on them. A hard-drive crash the year before meant that a lot of music was lost. What made it particularly sad was losing pieces that artists had recorded especially for me. Luckily, I was able to retrieve some of that but I never fully recovered from the pause in recording my podcast. What had already slipped to less than monthly, slipped further to only 1 or 2 new shows a year. Across the world, as 2010 came to a close, a horrifying event went almost unnoticed in Tunisia. That story continues into 2011 and into what would become known as The Arab Spring.