The normal response is to smile. Sometimes they laugh. Sometimes they grimace. Other times they nod and leave the room. Hastily, on the verge of rudeness. This is what happens when people come face to face with my kitsch for the...
A special kind of blue descends on these days following New Year. Before the gripes and grumbles of work supplant the hourless hinterlands of Christmas time, we find ourselves in an odd unwelcoming place. Torn from the bosom of...
My Gigs of the Year 2013 Suuns – The Exchange, Bristol “Gig of the year…best band on the planet @suunsband deserving of #nmehyperbole” Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Fleece...
The Best EPs, Mini-Albums, Mix Tapes and DJ Mixes of 2013 in no particular order D-Pat – In Bloom In Bloom by Dpat Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap Frog – Frog Ofei –...
Songs can do so much. They can evoke, evolve, emerge when you least expect it. Bury themselves. Make you shimmy, make you shake. Make you write. Create. Be still. Be wild. Allow you to connect to something real without knowing...
Here are my Best Albums of 2013… 1. Jai Paul – Leak “Music that sparks and fizzes, jumps around, disorientates, effervesces with playfulness. It is also deeply funky, sensual and soulful. It is quite...
Magnificent AK 47 October 20th St Georges Bristol Gathering Voices Festival of Song 2013 With as many costume changes as key changes, it is clear that the Magnificent AK 47 are not your traditional male voice choir. In fact, the...
We all grew up too quickly: got cool, got adult problems, got old. We forgot what it was like to be silly, how to enjoy the simple things, what really matters to us. We became cool and we became jaded. We stopped living in...
The rain drops are not plump, there are just more of them. My mac is wet. My jeans are wet. My bag is wet. My hand that holds my bag is wet. There really is a lot of rain falling from the sky right now. Sometimes when it rains, I...
Car boots occur early on Sunday mornings. For that reason, they exclude those people that still like to enjoy a Saturday night. For some, the car boot is a pipe dream that evaporates when those first sweet sips of cold nullifying...