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An interview with comedian Camilla Borges
I did an interview with the excellent Camilla Borges in my Indie Brighton newsletter ahead of her show at Fringe this weekend. Reposting it here for posterity! Hi there! Who are you, and why are you coming to Brighton? Hello! I am Camilla, I am a comedian and clown bringing my show, Be Not Afraid!, to Read more
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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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A wander up Chanctonbury Ring
“Chanctonbury is a place where time slows” [1] The last time I made it up to Chanctonbury, the world was different. It was 2019, and I was walking the South Downs Way. I was lost, but not in a geographic sense, as it’s hard to lose one’s bearings when walking a giant ridge of chalk Read more
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Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage + David Cronenberg’s Wife, The Crescent, York
This review first appeared in The Morning Star In a working men’s club turned community venue in Old York, indie kids young and old are out in force to see Jeffrey Lewis: New York’s finest, and possibly only, comic book artist, perma-touring troubadour, DIY garage-rock musician, and anti-folk songwriter. What is anti-folk? Tom, singer in Read more
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Promoting shows in our collapsing digital realm
I’ve got a show in Brighton next week! It’s being headlined by Jason out of Clearlake, who I interviewed here. I’ve booked some clowns and written some songs about the end of the world, it’s going to be good. Telling people about a thing is tricky nowadays, as far as the internet is concerned. Offline, Read more
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I joined an improv class and here’s what I think about that
January is a good time to do courses. Everyone is full of hope and excitement at doing something new, which is important in a month as cruel as this. [1] I joined a Level 3 course run by the local improv Kingpins The Maydays. I did this despite having not done their 1 and 2 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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