As a few of my former colleagues at Reckless Records have done, I wanted to note the incredibly sad passing of Andy Williams, who I used to work with in the shop in the 1990s. Nobody ended up working in…
I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously…
From my “I enjoyed this, you might enjoy it too” files, I urge you to go and see Mike Kelley’s Ghost and Spirit exhibition at the Tate Modern if you can before it closes at the end of this week….
Hi, it’s me. Yet again asking you to help out with somebody’s degree research. In this case it is a survey looking at personality traits, wellbeing, and the frequency of attending live music events. This survey is for a psychology…
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This monthly series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of…
Regular readers will know that I go to (and review) more gigs than I have hot dinners, so I was a very willing participant in a massive survey about live music – the Music Fans’ Voice survey – and you…
If you missed it, yesterday I had a very silly article on the Guardian website in tow of news that Exeter University is offering a film studies module looking at how donkeys have been besmirched by the way they are…
Another post in my occasional series of “Well, I enjoyed this, so you might enjoy it too” series, this time with a football and record shop theme. There was a lovely piece on the Guardian website a few days ago…
Long-time readers will know what a huge fan of the Fall I am, and I am excited that in June I am helping to put on a night in Walthamstow dedicated to the band. Yes, 10 June 2025, come along…
I was very lucky enough to be invited to play at the Peer Hat in Manchester at the weekend as part of the Manchester Folk Horror Festival VII, and so here is my take on everything I saw at the…