Well this IS odd: it is now nearly eight weeks since I’ve been to a…
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It’s been neglected, this website of late, but we’re back: in fact just recently back…
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Firstly, thank you very much to everyone who came to the shows in Edinburgh. I…
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“Don’t miss this show. Saw him in Southampton a few months back, it was incredible.…
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There was going to be a deft treatise here on the music-football phenomena that is…
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Touring Deaf For A living
It was about three years ago, while watching Stuart Maconie in the literary tent at Lattitude – segueing from stories about Morrissey into his days at NME (and coincidentally name checking yours truly) – that a friend turned to me and said you could do that.
Oh how we all laughed! The absurdity! The vanity!
Anyway, turns out I’m doing something like that.
The new one man show is called Going Deaf For A Living: The Story Of A Music Fan. It is not just my story, it’s the story of how a lot of us have fallen in love with music and the pitfalls that a growing obsession with bands can lie in wait for you
#SaveOurVenues
Well this IS odd: it is now nearly eight weeks since I’ve been to a gig. In the general landscape of awfulness and heartbreak, I realise that this fact is not only…
Why? Corona
As Nadine Shah was beginning, what she jokingly described as…
25 Year Stretch
Helpfully reminded by @BritpopMemories on Twitter, that last week marked…
BAMBARA Stray
FACT: as mentioned before Bambara saved my SXSW last year,…
MORRIS LANCING
ODD MORRIS: Dalston Victoria: The oddest, or at least…
