So as promised this week’s article is about the music and specifically live music. I’ve always wanted to be the guy that puts on the bands, rubbing shoulders with the people that fill my life with […]
So we’ve been away, three weeks, how brilliant. And how was it? Well… I should say straight off the bat that being able to swan off in a van for three weeks is an enormous privilege. […]
Last week saw me undertaking a tour of the Somme battlefield. It’s always a humbling and often upsetting trip but I get a good deal of satisfaction taking people round these sites and helping them understand […]
Japanese art form inspires reflections on healing and hope. When Slaid Cleaves and Rod Picott wrote ‘Broke Down’ they described a double-crossed heart as “cracked and shattered, left in pieces like it never even mattered”. The […]
Every week readers of this august column get to savour a couple of YouTube tracks and a Mixcloud copy of my live radio show. This was not possible a couple of decades ago, shiiit, even the […]
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