Thurma, Lord of the Droids, raises a child from the dead
hey, it isn’t every day i get to share work that i have had confirmed to me isn’t good enough (aren’t you lucky?) but today i am able – if not proud – to...
inclusion and representation, a free for all
for those interested in such things, the awards season is upon us again. i do like an awards bash (not as a participant, mind, it’s all far too glitzy for...
pop culture picks from ‘one of the best years ever’, economically speaking
a selection of things that moved me in 2023
Santa vs The Elves
Rebels without a Claus(e)
i will stream 500 times but i must stream 500 more
just to be the guy who got a favourite artist over Spotify's new threshold
receding here
performed live in New York, New York
keeping tabs on Morgan Wallen
... and is racism the new rock'n'roll?
endless nights with Phil Collins
imagine that...
Wasting time
A monologue lost to hypnosis
Lord Lloyd Webber: don't cry for this tory government
the truth is they never liked you
'Get out of my pub!' tribute
Hello, One day, I will make a serious art piece, I promise. But until then, I present to you the best EastEnders – and Peggy Mitchell (RIP) – tribute song...
Ed Sheeran's -: less than the sum of its parts?
maybe for some, but their opinions don't count
ai in pop music? sounds like a new kind of fan fiction to me
songwriters railing against ai software: 'is my art a pastiche to you?'
kill your heroes: a defence
a justification for this newsletter spin-off
Ambulance chasing
A monologue ruminating about the mysterious sudden deaths of some elders in a small suburban neighbourhood
A right royal fiction
An English prince goes 'Spare', as it were
Pop culture picks to cope with our chaotic decline
A selection of things that moved me in 2022, plus a self-audit of my creativity
Voting for Christmas
A rafter of farm turkeys debate the pros and pitfalls of voting for the festivities that await them
Bargain basement Britain
A finished tune for a finished country
Making love to the cry of Cbat, the robot dolphin
You never know which one of your songs will become a thing
Vintage apparel
A #storyinsixwords
Is Harry Styles the new Cliff Richard?
Britain hasn’t had a proper successor to pop's OG edgelord... until now
OK Eugene
Celebrating 25 years of Radiohead's third LP, the sadboi album of a generation
Billboard have crowned for us a new pop-punk prince, but is anyone buying it?
Machine Gun Kelly is to pop-punk what YouTubers Logan and Jake Paul are to comedy: cringey
EP: Q4, 2021/22
Hello, I bring you more gifts… please find the following EP imaginatively titled ‘Q4, 2021/22’. Enjoy.
The Shape Of Copyright
Another dispute over a smash hit indicates what a litigious mess popular music is in
Bandcamp in 'Epic' fail?
One little guy's attempt to understand what a corporate merger of a beloved music website means to (and for) him
the angel
an RPM challenge 2022 entry
Pop culture picks for another plague-ridden year
Hello, I thought I’d end this year by jumping on the bandwagon of benevolent culture shares, which seems to me to be an excuse to flaunt one’s own superior...
Budget me this: A UBI for artists?
Liverpool gets 'up to £2m' for another Beatles attraction (potentially), while Ireland's artists get paid
Hope and glory
Elgar revisited...
Driven to distraction
Littering pavements and injuring pedestrians? E-scooter owners would never
The political economy of hotness
Beware – it ruins nations
Eat free or die frying
A manifesto for eating however you like, whenever you like
Against authenticity
... and for better representation of artists (and respect for their ideas)
NFTs – the future of art commerce?
Music just wants to be free; digital art just wants to be traded on the blockchain
Everything will be free
Everything will be free, eventually. Trust me, everything will be free. When we have spent ourselves into ruin, saving nothing and no one in the process...
Dressing for your date
This story includes a sample from the Freesound library courtesy of Emanuele_Correani. Apologies to ABBA. Which lipstick looks best? Rayika stood in front of...
Getting into the spirit of Christmas
This time last year I did a themed five-minute stand up – so I thought I’d share it with you. Here’s to a better future for us all. Thanks for listening....
No nonsense? No way!
Just say no.There’s no stopping you, no-one except yourself.It doesn’t mean you’re no fun –On the contrary, you live in a world where no is all around you!No...
I'm not your daddy, Iron Man!
I can't stan you any longer
Dear Artist, I write to you in good faith, so forgive my bluntness, but there is a limit to how much of your behaviour I can justify to myself before it...
Try again
Happy August Bank Holiday! Please do enjoy this minor a cappella track I made, ‘Try again’. Hopefully one day I’ll get around to making something of a little...
Ways to skim a cat
Includes samples from the Freesound library courtesy of 150237_Matthys and BeeProductive.Apologies to Georg Philipp Telemann.
End of a golden generation
Apologies to Alfred Schnittke.
The height of diplomacy
New flash fiction story, published in Issue 5 of Detritus magazine. Includes samples from the Freesound library courtesy of MSFX, EFlexMusic, theshaggyfreak,...
Too much? Never!
Happy Easter Sunday! Have yourself a relaxing time with my brand new remix track, ‘Too much? Never!’ Apologies to Luther Vandross.
Less is more stuff, and fewer things
A font for my drivel...
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