Desperate Journalist at Oslo Hackney

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in November and December 2022

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Suede at Electric Ballroom, Camden

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in October 2022

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Marillion at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in September 2022

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Thoughts on … finally seeing Tom Bailey playing the whole Into The Gap album live

Thoughts on … finally seeing Tom Bailey playing the whole Into The Gap album live

At the weekend I went to a very special gig in Aylesbury, where Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins was performing the whole of their 1984 Into The Gap album live for the first time. He rarely does solo shows…

My view of Robin Vincent at the Rumsey Wells while I was setting up

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in August 2022

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Tears For Fears at Shepherd's Bush Empire

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in July 2022

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

A one-line review of every #TimsTwitterListeningParty I joined in July 2022

A one-line review of every #TimsTwitterListeningParty I joined in July 2022

It is different for me at the moment. I am on a Twitter break. So I just play the albums at the right time and then idly scroll through what people are saying without adding anything. It’s much more boring…

A one-line review of every #TimsTwitterListeningParty I joined in June 2022

A one-line review of every #TimsTwitterListeningParty I joined in June 2022

It is different for me at the moment. I am on a Twitter break. So I just play the albums at the right time and then idly scroll through what people are saying without adding anything. It’s much more boring…

Queen + Adam Lambert at the O2

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in June 2022

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Some thoughts about Andrew Fletcher and Depeche Mode

Some thoughts about Andrew Fletcher and Depeche Mode

I feel like I’ve got a complicated relationship with Depeche Mode now. For years and years they were by far my favourite band, the one I was absolutely fanatical about. I mentioned this in my newsletter the other week, that…