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Letter raising concerns about The Guardian and The Observer’s increasingly transphobic coverage
Dear Guardian reader’s editor, I am an ex-employee of the Guardian and am increasingly concerned by the rising tide of transphobia and hate speech published in your pages (and in the pages of your sister paper, The Observer) every single day. You are probably already aware of the many links between transphobia and the far… Read more
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Oh I am come to the low country
It is Burns Night tonight, and so at folk club on Monday we sang some Rabbie Burns, specifically 1794’s The Highland Widow’s Lament. Full lyric is published below – he’s long dead, so I suspect he can’t sue me. Oh, I am come to the low Countrie, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Without a penny in my… Read more
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Half Man Half Biscuit, Electric Ballroom, 20/1/2023
Note – this review first appeared in the Morning Star newspaper. Web version here. In Camden Town on a cold January night, a man down the front is crying and bellowing along to the closing track of a band’s sixteenth studio album: Oblong of Dreams, a paean to place and belonging worthy of Wordsworth. Up… Read more
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Tudor Wassail at Michelham Priory
On a freezing, sunny afternoon, I arrived at Berwick railway station. No tweed to be seen: this was Berwick in Sussex, and I was on my way to a moat-ed, medieval priory, to take part in a Tudor Wassail with the Brighton Folk Choir. Usually a one-Wassail-a-year kind of lad, this was me branching out,… Read more
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A Small Interview With Myself
For This Machine Kills Wasps, my new music and comedy night, I have returned to Facebook for the first time since Nick Clegg was popular. This was solely in order to set up an event page, but I have realised that 95% of open mic bookings in this city are still on that dystopian corner… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps
In just under a month’s time, on 2nd February, This Machine Kills Wasps, a new, alternative music, comedy, and musical comedy night, will take place in Brighton, at the lovely Folklore Rooms. It‘s me. It’s my night. My first one in Brighton, a city where I own a bed, a bicycle, and between two and… Read more
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Walthamstow Wassail 2023
“Are you looking for the the wassail? Head up the lane until you find a shed with a light on”. We all need traditions and celebrations, to bind us to pasts real or imagined, and to remind of us the cyclical nature of time. The wassail is a folk tradition based on the important twin… Read more
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