Writing this column there is one complaint I get more frequently than any other.
It s that people don t know about stuff that s happening. It s not a complaint directed specifically at me - well, sometimes it is - more a general cry of existential angst at missing out on something because you didn t even know it existed.
The irony of course is that in this modern Too Much Information Age we seem to be missing more things, more than ever.
This ultimately comes down to decentralisation of information. It s similar to what has taken place in film culture, another area dear to my heart. Once there were video stores, central hubs where you could find details about new and upcoming films; now there are a dozen streaming channels where films might, or might not, appear.