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Brighton Folk Choir at the Toad Lickers Collective Folklore Exhibition, Newhaven
It was glorious to return to the world of folklore and strangeness, as the Brighton Folk Choir found ourselves in an artistic studio looming above the port of Newhaven. The only time I’d previously been here was to take the ferry to Dieppe, and my train today was full of French families readying themselves for… Read more
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Your Death Is Very Important To Us
Acting brought me to Portsmouth, for a short film about death, memory, and the future of exploitation. I shan’t say too much about it, as despite being an extremely niche blog there’s still the possibility that the people involved will find this, and I’ll have broken some crucial aspect of my contract. I played a… Read more
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The Halfchurches Take Shoreham
Due to various types of exhaustion, only two of the band made it to Shoreham this evening for a mooted open mic gig. Thus The Halfchurches was born, to go alongside our other doppelgängers, The Girlchurches (the rest of the band without me), and The Burnchurches (our Norwegian Black Metal side project). [1] The Duke… Read more
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Review: Sketch-Off 2025 Final, Leicester Square Theatre
Despite the crisis in the arts, the UK has a never ending supply of fresh weirdos. Some come straight from their university improv clubs, and some are doing their recovery in public after a year of being brutalised at infamous French clowning school Gaulier. And some are here because their anarchic spirit allows them to… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with Lachlan Werner, Charlie Vero-Martin, Leslie Bloom, JoJo Maberly, Queen Mab and The Highchurches
I struggle the day after shows. After the high, and the interacting with many wonderful people, comes the low, and the barely being able to get out of bed or leave the flat. I finally made it out just after seven pm yesterday evening, and something very lovely indeed happened. I walked straight into Queen… Read more
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A quiz hosting career in three parts
I’m on my way back from hosting a quiz in Worthing, a supposedly every-other-week gig which has rapidly turned into an almost-every-week commitment. [1] I don’t mind, though. It’s actually quite hard to be a part time quiz host. You need to be there most weeks to build up a rapport with the regular teams,… Read more
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I Read The News Today, Oh Boy
A diary post in the classic day in the life style today. Think bored primary school teacher asking the kids what they did at the weekend, only for a Monday and the kids in question being a man in his mid-forties. We live so many lives and forget so many days. Today already involves so… Read more
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Singing at Sharp’s Folk Club, Cecil Sharp House, for the first time
I used to be a regular at Sharp’s. Heck, I even wrote about it, when one of the legendary folk club’s legendary performers died. My friend Anna has been trying to get me to sing there for at least fifteen years, but I was always too shy. No excuse this time: with her up from… Read more
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