Here’s something I’m surprised nobody has invented yet: an email autoresponder that kicks in when you hit 100 unread messages. Yeah, it turns out that everything I said here is a lie and that double-round number is my anxiety trigger. I’m just (well, probably not just by the time you read this) back from my […]
Not to jinx it, of course, but I think I’ve grown up into somebody like the person I always wanted to be. I’m writing this the night before my 37th birthday, which means by the time you read it I’ll be properly in my late 30s (“you reach a point when there’s not a lie […]
Have I mentioned that the period between Christmas and New Year is my favourite time of the year? I’m lucky in that, an emergency period in retail notwithstanding, my last two jobs have been of the sort where there is no need to work. Providers of professional services cannot provide when the professionals are on […]
2016: the year I stopped listening to men. Unless they were called John. Or Bruce. Or Frank or Ryan or Brian. Yes, of course I’m exaggerating for dramatic effect. But, as I wrote in my last piece for The Arts Desk (until they asked if I could fulfil my traditional Christmas Day duty, anyway): this […]
This review originally ran on The Arts Desk. The answers, for the listener curious as to whether Emmy the Great’s Second Love fared any better than her first (it’s the title of her 2009 debut as much as any reference to the songwriter’s psyche), do not emerge until its final track. “Once I was a […]
…in which this blogger does not manage to be the only person who didn’t list Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes or PJ Harvey who didn’t draw attention to the fact that she didn’t list Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes or PJ Harvey. As ever, this is the product of one woman’s opinion and is intended as a […]
I’m not feeling in any way festive, but anticipated or otherwise I seem to be in slowdown as we approach the end of the year. So, although I’d like to get my musical/photographic A to Z all posted and obviously there are mixes still to come, you probably won’t see much in the way of […]