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…
Do you have five minutes to help a student with their survey about live music events and wellbeing?
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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A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in February 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…
Have your say in a large-scale survey of live music audiences
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…
A lovely article about people who vanish from football terraces reminded me of familiar faces from long-lost record shops
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…
Come and spend a night in June dancing to the Fall in Walthamstow
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…
A one-line review of everything I saw at Manchester Folk Horror Festival VII
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…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in January 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…
m-orchestra – Rosaleen – track-by-track guide
I’ve released Rosaleen by m-orchestra today – some more of my Fortean electronica. Yay! It isn’t really an album, because it is only 20-ish minutes long. And it isn’t really an EP, because it has seven tracks. I guess if…