Paul Kelly’s acclaimed film Lawrence of Belgravia is now on BFI Blu Ray and some streaming services. Features extras: deleted scenes, lyrics, poetry – plus essays/interviews from myself, Michael Hayden and Tim Murray. You can buy it at the bfi shop. There’s also a live event with Lawrence and Paul, hosted by me, for those […]
Read moreChannel 5’s Greatest ABBA Cover Versions Ever was genuinely enlightening, funny and clever. It featured Andy Bell of Erasure, Neil Arthur of Blancmange, Carla Bruni, Adrian Utley of Portishead, Dannii Minogue and William Orbit, who talks about a lost cover by Madonna. Everyone agreed the Visitors is the best Abba album. Well it is. I […]
Read moreThe Top of the Pops “Story of…” programmes from 1991 onwards are currently on BBC2 and iPlayer. I was asked to contribute to several of them which is always a total thrill. Needless to say, I am very much the target audience for this sort of thing and always watch them. Top of the Pops […]
Read moreFab to have been invited on to the excellent Piney Gir‘s podcast The Other Womxn on Soho radio for a chat in November 2021. We spoke about music, art, acting, Thanksgiving and being grateful for… being alive. Piney is extremely talented as a musician and broadcaster… and bakes nice pumpkin pie.
Read moreIt was great to be asked three Q&As at the BFI Southbank as part of the Saint Etienne films season in early September 2021. I spoke to Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs, Paul Kelly, Travis Elborough and Lawrence about some fo the films that were showing. It was fairly incredible just to be in a cinema, […]
Read moreAm on the Back to Now! podcast, which charts (ahem) the Now That’s What I Call Music albums. This time we’re on Now 16, a time where big chunky ballads jostled with so-called dance music, before it went Baggy. Yes, it’s Richard “Karl” Marx and Belinda “Karl”isle – Tears for Fears and Living in a […]
Read moreDelighted to have been asked to contribute a written piece to Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton’s epic 360-page Fall book, out April 1st 2021. Contributors also include Michael Bracewell, Adelle Stripe, Scott King, Mark Fisher, Owen Hatherley and more. “This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about […]
Read moreIllustration fans – kids and parents. New for a sweltering (or rainy) 2021 – Brent libraries now have the Map Your Summer activity packs in stock. Pick up a pack for free, and map your way around town. There are extras to cut out to the map, lots of space for drawing your own additions, […]
Read moreHaringey Council are celebrating Women’s History Month and they asked me to create four maps for them which are a treasure trove of information about the astonishing women who have lived in the borough. From parachutists in and around Alexandra Palace to women who set up the first schools in the borough; from suffragette potato-throwing […]
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