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“2022 comedy highlights with James Walsh”
Note: this article originally appeared in the Morning Star newspaper, and online on their website here Yer generic Friday night upstairs at the Goat & Gangrene in Crapton-on-Brine might still be booking eight white blokes complaining about their divorces, but in the urban centres the alternative scene is as exciting, experimental and inclusive as it’s… Read more
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Portsmouth – Ryde ferry: gateway to the 1950s
I woke up early today, and so decided to get the hovercraft to the Isle of Wight. People have been holding me back from travelling by hovercraft for too long. It’s time I ignored the haters and lived my best life. I arrived at the hoverport to find it closed. Google had told me the… Read more
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Laughing at the tipping point of disaster: My top 10 podcasts of 2022
I listen to too many podcasts. I listen to podcasts about political theory to sleep. I listen to cricket podcasts to do the dishes. I walk to the rhythm of tech overlord defenestration. Like many others, I worry that podcast information retention is much lower than with reading. How many of the terrible things I… Read more
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The Last of the Great Indie Discos: an interview with Chris from Offbeat
Hidden away in the corner of Sheffield University’s student bar lies the Raynor Lounge, home of Offbeat, the ultimate indie disco. It has now been running for 25 years, founded as a splinter event from Warwick’s own indie society [1]. While The West Midland Offbeat is run as a generational oligarchy, passed from clique to… Read more
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Park Hill: Urban Splashback
In Sheffield for Offbeat, and with an hour to kill at the station, I climbed up through the snow to see how the redevelopment of Park Hill is going, eight and a half years since my last visit. Back in 2014, the privatised, brightly cladded section [1] was at the bottom of the hill, but… Read more
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Miss Modular
It’s so strange to me how close music is to time travel. When I started to fall out of love with new music ten years ago, I worried how I would even form new memories. Life is the bone, songs are the marrow. While I write these words I’m listening to the claustrophobic French lounge… Read more
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Furious man in local newspaper
I’ve finally achieved my lifelong goal of looking angry in the local newspaper. Unfortunately I didn’t get to pose either with my armed folded or pointing at the thing that annoyed me, but perhaps that’s something to achieve before I’m fifty. I’m pretty happy with how I have been quoted, though it’s perhaps a shame… Read more
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An invisible pandemic of death and violence
Trigger warning: below is a fairly graphic account of a car driving into children. On Friday afternoon, I was heading to The Miller in London Bridge to put up posters for our show on Wednesday. Approaching the venue, I heard screaming and wailing. I had arrived into the immediate aftermath of some everyday car violence.… Read more
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