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Brighton Folk Choir at Jack in the Green, Hastings
May Day is a day for socialist action, and for folk adventure, as we celebrate the end of darkness and the beginning of the summer months. In more recent times, the folk tradition of May Day is, in the public imagination, a rather genteel thing: kids dancing around the May Pole on some village green… Read more
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Visiting every county cricket ground #3: Hove
I had never been to the county ground in Hove, despite having lived in Brighton for a year. Sure, I’ve cycled past it. Circled it. Peeked in from the car park, longingly. But all these activities took place in the off season – my life, geographically inconsistent, never lined up with seeing the oldest county… Read more
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Visiting every county cricket ground #2: The Oval
Two rounds of the County Championship completed, and two grounds visited. This rate, I hope, will speed up in time, but for now I am easing myself in, like an opening batsman pre-Bazball. The Oval is the first cricket ground I ever visited, in 2005, on the last day of the last Test of that… Read more
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Visiting every County Cricket Ground #1: Lord’s
On a cold, drizzly Thursday, the the 2023 County Championship season got underway, while I was cycling up through St John’s Wood to Lord’s. I was slightly late. I had met a friend and her daughter at in Hyde Park. They had cycled all the way from their home in Tooting – a burgeoning yearly… Read more
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Ai Wei Wei: “Making Sense” at The Design Museum, London
“Those who are alive, live on fully –don’t hope earth keeps a trace behind”– Ai Qing, 1980 Last night I caught the first half of “The French Dispatch”, one of Wes Anderson’s typically stylised, revealing guides to how wealthy east coast Americans perceive the rest of the world. We meet some amusing dealers, who attempt… Read more
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Brighton Folk Choir live session on Mid Sussex Radio
Last night I went to Burgess Hill with the Brighton Folk Choir to sing a live session on Mid Sussex Radio. Burgess Hill is only ten minutes on the train but feels a generation away. The shops are largely gone – Amazon waits for no one – but it was good to see a board… Read more
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Where the past belongs
The weather was sunny but my mind was cloudy, and I decided to cycle into the past. I have quite mixed feelings about revisiting Nottingham, and specifically the area I grew up in. But I was up in town anyway to see some old friends and celebrate a child’s first birthday, and had some hours… Read more
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Musical Comedy Awards 2023 – The Final, Bloomsbury Theatre
There are two comedy finals in a row this weekend. I can’t make the Sketch Off final at the Leicester Square Theatre – good luck Charlie Vero-Martin et al – but popped along to this. I love musical comedy, and thought this would be a good opportunity to find fresh talent to book for my… Read more
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