let's get doomscrolling on monday!
Hello! Happy Saturday :) To readers in the south of England: yay it's stopped raining for the first time in about 12 hours! I've got the first outing of my...
doomscrolling as winter comes to naples (aka hello 2023)
Hi there, Hope you're enjoying the most wonderful time of year, Betwixtmas / Liminal Week / the perineum of the year [sorry]! I do love glorious, empty...
Oops - left off the bit about WIPs from today's newsletter
<br /> Dates for WIPs of my second Edinburgh show! • Buttondown Hi all, I've got some dates booked in for Work-In-Progress* performances of my next Edinburgh...
Dates for WIPs of my second Edinburgh show!
Hi all, I've got some dates booked in for Work-In-Progress* performances of my next Edinburgh show, Reunion/Afterparty! It's about the news, nostalgia and a...
See I Miss Amy Winehouse this Friday in London!
⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Leaves you with a smile on your face" - Theatre and Other Things LDN "Vulnerable, poignant and hilarious" - Boom Chicago Comedy Festival "Sneakily dark...
I'm Missing Amy Winehouse all next week!
I'm doing 5 nights of previews next week in north London, I'm excited and scared, do come! Sending out a really quick missive with what I've been up to and...
notes written from inside the storm eunice croissant
Hi all, Not to worry, I'm not actually inside said croissant, pictured above just off the coast of Blackpool. I am of course writing on my laptop in bed, in...
you went back to what you know
Ronnie Spector, who died this week aged 78, with David Bowie and Iggy Pop in 1976 (her expression!!!) Ronnie Spector sings 'Back to Black' in tribute to Amy...
ghostly presences of something strange in a familiar environment
Stevie Nicks in the official video for her 1981 single 'Edge of Seventeen', an absolute banger that caps her concerts; it's resurging in popularity thanks to...
I remember firelight / And you remember smoke
A still from the video for the Amy Winehouse single (my favourite) Tears Dry On Their Own (2006)...
what is going on with pandas
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our dreams feel real while we're in them
Kendall Jenner and Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala in New York this week ------------------------------------------------------------------ This week's...
there comes a time when every summer will have something of autumn about it
Goodbye summer. I'm going to miss iced coffees the most ------------------------------------------------------------------ This edition's subject line is...
you are connected to every other station, every person, subject to the same forces personal and impersonal
Photograph of Brenda Frazier in 1966 by Diane Arbus - more context in links of the week below Hi there, Just a really quick one from me this week - things...
what's nameless inside our veins fluoresces, fluoresces in the rain
Thank you to Anne-Charlotte Gerbaud for taking this picture of me during my Friday 13th August performance of I Miss Amy Winehouse This edition's subject...
we feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars
Still from Andrei Tarkovksky's Solaris (1972) TW: Due to the storyline of Solaris, there will be references to suicide in the linked piece below. The quote...
I can’t let my alligator attack consume me
Hi there, I’m finding that I don’t have much left over for these weekly essays at the moment - my creative energy has been spent on press and selling tickets...
I tend to learn as much as I forget
This issue's subject line "I tend to learn as much as I forget" is from Amy Winehouse's 2006 single Close To The Front Hi there, It's August and it's time...
tears dry on their own
From the last set of paparazzi shots of Amy Winehouse, taken on 21st July 2010 Hi there, There’s been a heatwave in London, and honestly? This city was not...
shouting back and leaning out
The late journalist and commentator Dawn Foster on Sky’s paper review, in an image that was shared widely on Twitter last night as news broke of her sudden...