Gigs
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Rock gig #2: World’s End, Brighton
In a spirit of comedic exaggeration, I underestimated how many gigs MJ Hibbett has done when writing up our show last week. I said he’d done 873. He emailed me to say he’s since checked his spreadsheet of rock. It’s actually 997. On Tuesday, six days after my debut, I performed my own personal gig Read more
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Paul Draper at Electric Brixton, performs Attack of the Grey Lantern, looks like Luke Skywalker
I tried to get out of the habit of going to nostalgia shows, as there’s something strange about wallpapering over memories of seeing bands at their peak with memories of exactly the same people singing exactly the same songs twenty years later. This is particularly so for the reverent album playback show. Remember how annoyed Read more