In 2025, I got to watch some incredible performances from legendary artists like Stevie Wonder and Laaraji to pivotal bands who opened up new sonic worlds for me as a teenager like The Beta Band, The Flaming Lips and Tortoise to...
Category - Music
I’ve found myself drawn to more reflective and meditative music in 2025. It’s felt necessary to lose myself in carefully crafted soundscapes, to be absorbed in other sonic worlds. I have happily discovered albums that...
Trellick Tower held between overhead wires, bright brittle chords, symbols crashing, accelerated greens, parkland amongst the scrubs, weeds amongst the rubble. Industrial skeletons, structures exposed, and a fiddle bows in a...
Another year has passed and, once again, it’s been soundtracked by remarkable works of art from musicians still finding new ways to express themselves and connect with listeners. The albums compiled here, those I’ve...
2024 was another year of incredible live music, spanning intimate performances to crowd-pleasing festival sets to once-in-a-lifetime shows. I got to witness a 17-year-old guitar prodigy at the start of her career and a...
Second-hand records are stories. Each one contains some trace of its previous owners in its grooves. It could be a first kiss, maybe even ‘their song’, or the time she realised she could lose herself completely in...
Here are the albums that soundtracked my 2023. They were there through moments of great joy and times of deep sadness, provided places to reflect or forget, seek solace or catharsis. They made me dance, laugh and cry. They were...
2023 had it all – killer new acts, perennial favourites, stunning innovators, jazz legends, and a hefty dose of nostalgia. This year I got to see Pulp, Moldy Peaches and Kerbdog all perform live – three bands that...
It’s a Friday night and you’re going out. Fuck it, you say, squeezing into skinny jeans, pulling on your best boots. You’re tired, of course you are, but you need to dispel the fug of the working week, shift the...
Frog – Grog Audio Antihero / Tape Wormies There comes a point for many creatives when you realise that your art isn’t going to make you enough money to live. You’re not going to pay the rent with your quirky...