Love Sal
Way back in 2007 I contacted Dr Sally Cline at Anglia Ruskin University to ask advice about writing a rock music biography. I was living in Cambridge at the time…
Big Tastes
In my last blog, Alcoholiday, I wrote about recalibrating my 40 year relationship with booze. I was helped by following Annie Grace’s challenge in The Alcohol Experiment: 30 Days to…
Alcoholiday
How healthy is your relationship with booze? For many of us, this is a difficult question to answer truthfully. We lie to ourselves and others. I decided to recalibrate my…
OK Computer
Is it possible and/or appropriate to wish “Happy Birthday” to an album? If so then this blog is my attempt to mark 25 years this weekend of OK Computer, Radiohead’s…
Charming Men
Gigs, gigs, gigs. There was a time, ooh about 30 years ago, when I’d be out at gigs two or three times a week. Lockdown aside, I can count on…
Tuesday’s Gig
What to wear? What will I wear?! As the days count down to a spoken word gig, I find myself having what I call a “Clothes Faff.” I used to…
Proper Poets
Hard to believe it’s a whopping 37 years since I wrote my first “proper” poem. I was 15 and on holiday in Northern Ireland. “The Troubles” were ongoing so the…
Morpeth Book Festival
This time next week I’ll be limbering up and enjoying my usual clothes faff ahead of an afternoon gig in Morpeth. I’m delighted to be part of the Morpeth Book…
Clockwork Magpies
Way back in November 2017 Emma Whitehall read from her work in progress at Pure Fiction, a regularish evening event dedicated to fiction I’d started the previous year. November 2017’s…