Another fantastic year for music, here’s my rundown of the best 30 albums of 2019. 2019 Albums of the Year 1. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains Purple Mountains by Purple Mountains 2. Deerhunter – Why...
Inktober 2019 – Flash Fiction Week one Week two Week three Week four WEEK ONE Ring I used to go to the attic to ring you. It’s where I first listened to Guns n Roses, a safe distance...
When I was growing up, radios were everywhere. The air I breathed as a child was muggy with the tinny pop hits of the eighties, the staticky singalongs of the seventies, and the saccharine psychedelia of the sixties. You walked...
Picture the scene Etta – you’ve seen it before of course, you were there, but it’s doubtful that you remember it now: you are in your dining room at the table, your big eyes are looking out as you sit in your high...
I sit out of sight, staring across at you and thinking back over all the times we shared together. Offering paper prayers to the dead on the Tibetan Plateau, getting dirty in the Cambodian jungle, scaling Scafell, descending...
Bristol is a city renowned for many things – its left-leaning alternative culture, vibrant music scene, street art, and the omnipresent fug of high-grade skunk. Architecturally though it draws a bit of a blank. Other than...
Deerhunter released their latest album on a limited edition ‘Brutalist Grey’ vinyl. Skepta rapped his way through the Barbican Estate in his video for Shutdown. Damien Jurado featured an abstracted brutalist...
1. Damien Jurado – The Horizon Laughed 2. Eric Chenaux – Slowly Paradise 3. R.Seiliog – Megadose 4. The Golden Dregs – Lafayette 5. Connan Mockasin – Jassbusters 6. Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit...
It was my first rodeo. I had met a girl in Spain from Arkansas. She had sent me two letters saying that she thought about me often and that if I was ever in the southern states to look her up. The noon sun was pure – white heat...
Hay fever. Fuck hay fever. Fuck hay fever like it’s fucked me. In the eyes, the nose, and the throat. My eyes are red, like a cartoon junky; like a bong-smoking night creature thrust out into morning; like the protagonist...