Come Bye 2025: Hits And Misses
Rural pastimes at Come Bye 2025 Come Bye is a 400-person festival held at Three Pools, a permaculture farm and event space founded in 2017 near Abergavenny...
In The Pocket: The Sound Of Welt Discos
This week I am launching the project I’ve been trailing here and there for the past month or so! In The Pocket: The Sound Of Welt Discos is a 21-track...
Five Tracks I Didn't Play At Honcho Campout '25
Me DJing at Hemlock Hole, Sat 2.30pm (Photo by @whatsfunnyoli) After an experience like Honcho Campout, so full of potential, it’s almost easier, afterwards,...
8 Formative Mix CDs
Over the past 9 months I’ve been working on something that encapsulates many dimensions of what this mad music life means to me. It’s a project about the...
PDA (26/07/25)
PDA was a big HIT in my hits and misses of CSD 2024 (here) and I included Michael Upson from Love Muscle’s set in my best dancing moments of 2025, saying:...
Waking Life 2025: Collective Hits And Misses
The only photo I took at Waking Life 2025 Well, I guess most of the dust has settled by now, although there are still various objects in my house that bear...
Madrid Orgullo 2025
Proud burrito It’s been six years since I last attended Orgullo Madrid, and that last time in 2019 I had to leave halfway through the Saturday night parade...
Kala Festival 2025: Hits And Misses
Private audience with Ciel at the Splendor stage, Monday night, Kala I’ve been having a bit of a crisis of confidence with this newsletter, hence the radio...
Paraíso (Film Review)
This is a review of Paraíso, a documentary film produced by the team behind the long-running archival project, radio show and event series of the same name,...
Midweek Mixes (30/04/25)
A run-down of some of the mixes and radio shows that have been soundtracking my existence – from the box-fresh to the tried-and-tested – all guaranteed to...
What Does A Tour Cost? (US Edition)
My most important gig on this tour I guess this could become a series, although… When I wrote my last newsletter counting the cost of my tour around North,...
Midweek Mixes (16/04/25)
A run-down of some of the mixes and radio shows that have been soundtracking my existence – from the box-fresh to the tried-and-tested – all guaranteed to...
Midweek Mixes (02/04/25)
A run-down of some of the mixes and radio shows that have been soundtracking my existence – from the box-fresh to the tried-and-tested – all guaranteed to...
Festival Lineup Posters: A Typology
This article has now been un-paywalled, enjoy! Three years ago I was booked to play at a party alongside Trusme, a DJ whose name begins with the letter T and...
Record Reviews (18/03/25)
C Powers - ‘I Will Not Live In A Fascist State’ [Sorry Records] C Powers "Ms Mix"C Powers - Unlawful Assembly [SR61] This track (and the EP it belongs to)...
Warming Up For Cassy (08/03/25)
A week ago I warmed up for Cassy at Ministerium club in Lisbon, playing from 23h to 01h in the downstairs room, which, on a good night, is up there with the...
Midweek Mixes (11/03/25)
A run-down of some of the mixes and radio shows that have been soundtracking my existence – from the box-fresh to the tried-and-tested – all guaranteed to...
What Does A Tour Cost?
Food influencing On the night before Bonanza Festival kicked off a couple of weeks ago (review here), I was in the bar at Rio Hostel drinking a beer when I...
Bonanza 2025: Hits And Misses
What started in 2018 with a party on a beach on Colombia’s Caribbean coast and in 2019 was shut down last minute by the authorities, necessitating a move to...
Research, Seattle (07/02/25)
I arrived in Seattle last Wednesday evening after a rather long journey from Lisbon that featured a layover in Ponta Delgada in the Azores and a night at my...
