About

According to Wikipedia, that first port of call for general knowledge and pub quiz answers in the information age, the term “blog” was first coined in 1999. Curiously that’s when I began blogging myself, although I’d never have given those early teen-angst fuelled online diaries so lofty a title. My blogging is as old as blogging! That’s actually pretty neat.

I’m 27 years old, and I still can’t walk in heels. Apparently, this is actually due to being born with flat feet and not, as I previously suspected, because I’m not graceful. I live in Glasgow, a bus ride away from the city centre and my favourite music venues, with a boy I met on Myspace and our monkey companion Moriarty. We’re getting married this year, despite a lifelong aversion to that particular institution. That’s myself and the boy, not the monkey.

I describe myself as a journalist by profession because every time I’ve considered doing something else I’ve realised that I’d still have to blog about it when I got home. Having been made redundant from a public relations/marketing role with a legal training company late last year, I’m now working in the retail sector part time and writing as much and taking as many photographs as I can. I’m a regular contributor to the Scotsman’s Under the Radar music blog and the Scottish Roundup, amongst other things.

My friend Tyler once described me as having “Clarkson Syndrome: she hates everything.” He meant it as a compliment, which is fine because I took it as one. I think that tells you everything you need to know about my personality.

I adopted Last Year’s Girl as an online handle in 2003, when Jesse Malin sang it at me from the stage in King Tut’s (it’s a lyric from his song “TKO”). I’ve blogged here on my own domain since 2005: mostly about music, media law and overpriced make-up. Big hugs to my Web Hedgehog for tech support and things.

Oh, and you can call me Lis, and email me here.

Last updated: 8th February 2010. Text, photos and header graphics are mine unless otherwise stated. Songs are posted for the love of it, in the hopes that others will love them too and buy the records like I do. No malicious infringement is intended – if you’d like something of yours removed email me and I will do so immediately.