Projects
Popstock! The Fall event May 8
So 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 moreFaversham Literary Festival ’25
On 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 moreBoybands Forever
Hello. 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 moreNovember book events!
Delighted 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 moreOctober book events!
As 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 moreHeritage Chart Show Show
Why 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 […]
Read moreLawrence in London panel discussion W1
Thursday 1st February at 7pm As part of the exhibition Lawrence in Fitzrovia at the Fitzrovia Chapel, I’m super pleased to be hosting a discussion about “London life and adventures in the big city” featuring Lawrence, curator DJ Martin Green and ‘Lawrence of Belgravia’ director Paul Kelly. It has now sold out so sorry if you didn’t […]
Read moreFaversham Literary Festival
On the 24th and 25th February 2024 I will be hosting some book events at the Faversham Literary festival. I will be speaking with the excellent Daniel Rachel and Charlie Higson; John Niven and Dave Haslam for three separate events. More details here. It looks like an excellent festival! Come along!
Read moreSaint Etienne sleeve notes
To mark its 30th Anniversary, Saint Etienne will release a very special box set of their classic second album ‘So Tough’. This beautiful set includes a vinyl version of the original album in a gatefold sleeve; ‘So Tough – Remains Of The Day’, a 10 track vinyl companion album of rarities and demos; ‘Hobart Paving’ […]
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