Come and see m-orchestra in Walthamstow in the middle of the night!
This won’t be the first time I’ve played an m-orchestra gig at the witching hour, as during lockdown I did a livestream from my garden at midnight, but I’m excited that Sunday night/Monday morning I will be playing my haunted…
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in April 2025
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…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in April 2025
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…
Go and see ‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern
I know it won’t come as a surprise to regular readers, but yes, I do think it is worth going to the Leigh Bowery! exhibition at Tate Modern at the moment, not least because, besides Bowery’s stuff being amazing, it…
Age is just a number until you become music memorabilia
Sometimes before I go to the Finsbury Park Picturehouse cinema I hang out in a bar called Someday, which despite looking slightly imposingly hip from the outside is very relaxed, does ma-hooooooo-sive pizzas, and often has quite nostalgic indie playlists…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in March 2025
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…
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in March 2025
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…
Enjoying the Broken Veil paranormal podcast
Among recent things that I have enjoyed, which you might enjoy too, is a new creepy paranormal podcast series called Broken Veil. It is a loosely connected set of stories of strange experiences which all centre around a particular place…
I missed a Duran Duran design exhibition … booooooo!
It looks like I missed a great event in London last week where there was an evening exhibition of Malcolm Garrett‘s design work for Duran Duran between 1981 and 1986, with members of the band in attendance. I didn’t realise…
Andy Williams
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…