After Boybands Forever, it’s Girlbands that have the focus…. New BBC series looking at the pitfalls of being in a UK girl group from the mid-90s onwards. And I’m interviewed in it! You can watch the series here on iPlayer. I haven’t watched it yet, too scared. The last series was excellent though.
Read moreOur digital single Dumb Contortion is out! Real thing in September! Here’s the video: You can listen to it on Bandcamp also. T shirts exist! Plus erm things! Our debut gig May 16 sold out. We played songs, while standing on a very small stage. Our next gig was with fine improvochaos merchants MIDNIGHT MINES […]
Read moreI write regularly for Electronic Sound, and have recently had the absolute honour in interviewing musicians such as Cosey Fanni Tutti, John Grant and Anja Huwe from Xmal Deutschland. ES is beautifully designed and never boring, and in a world where there are less and less music magazines, this is a good one.
Read moreHello. I am on the esteemed Bandsplain podcast with the excellent Yasi Salek talking with her about Pulp – the music, the myths and long long road to hit records and tabloid attention. It’s thorough! It lasts over six hours, but go on, it’s good. Listen!
Read moreSo thrilled to be speaking to Craig Scanlon, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley & Marc Riley in Manchester to celebrate the release of The Fall: Singles Live Vol, One 1978-81 on Popstock Records. It will take place at the Night and Day Café at 7pm on Thursday 8th May. I have listened to and loved the […]
Read moreOn the 1 and 2 March 2025 I will be hosting some book events at the Faversham Literary festival. I will be speaking with the excellent writer Miranda Sawyer, the Led By Donkeys team, Steve Diggle from Buzzcocks and spook investigator Danny Robins for four separate events. More details here. It is an excellent festival, […]
Read moreHello. I’m what they call a talking head on the new Louis Theroux-produced doc Boybands Forever. The programme is actually really good! It’s on BBC iPlayer if you would like to watch it, and chart the travails of life in a boyband – the punishing schedules, the madness of the tabloids, the lottery as to […]
Read moreDelighted to be hosting an event at the Louder than Words festival on Will Hodgkinson’s book Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence. The book is wonderful and lots of detail and ticket info is here. I probably can’t say more than that, but that it gives insight into someone who seems to have sacrificed everything […]
Read moreAs one-third of seminal band Cocteau Twins, Simon Raymonde helped to create some of the most beautiful and memorable music of the ’80s and ’90s – and he’s written a book! It’s great. I will be talking to him on October 8th in the lovely Walthamstow, for the equally lovely Rock n Roll Bookclub. Tickets […]
Read moreWhy not listen to a new podcast, the Heritage Chart Show Show? Hosted by Pete Paphides and myself, it’s an outlet for our life-long passion for chart rundowns and our keeness to live in a world where they are still relevant. It’s also an outlet for our never-ending fascination with the Heritage Chart, invented by […]
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