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Bingbangbong – 10 years on – Part 1

31 December 2010

  It’s New Year’s Eve 2010 and I’m mindful of the fact that we’re entering a new Year. This year is special because it marks the 10th Anniversary of my first formal musical instrument installation. Of course that didn’t just come from nowhere so I thought I’d take today and lay out some of the progress [...]

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The Day Job

5 October 2010
Bingbangbong No Nonsense Outdoor Musical Instruments

As my ‘real’ job, I am managing director of a company called bingbangbong Ltd. We make No-Nonsense Outdoor Musical Instruments for schools, nurseries, public spaces, indoor play areas….  I also undertake private consulting work which can be fun, more on that later. We drew on our No Nonsense ’Urban Sound Play’ collection for sound and play [...]

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Celtic Tiger Slain by Big Game Hunters

3 October 2010

It was in the news during the week that the Irish Exchequer had bailed out one of the country’s major banks to the tune of €38 billion.  image courtesy The Met  I think that I have become blasé about all these big figures being bandied around, a billion here, ten billion there but this figure [...]

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My Dragon’s Den Blog

28 September 2010

From 2006 – Reposted from Old, hacked Marshall Arts Site BBC Dragons Den – Series 3 – Episode 7 Paul’s Dragons’ Den mini-blog (c)2006 Paul Marshall Yes it’s true, I was brave (foolish) enough to put myself and my business bingbangbong.com in front of the infamous ‘Dragons’ in an effort to raise investment and gain partnership. [...]

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Who is Paul Marshall?

10 September 2010

I’m Paul, I live in Bangor in N Ireland.I love drums & drumming! I have three wonderful teenagers. My life gives me many opportunities for richness in experience and challenge. I have been fascinated with sound in general and with drums in particular from I was no age, this is something of a theme…. I [...]

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