Music

  • I was born in 1985. Every Wednesday from the age of 13-16 or so I used to go to the…

  • I am aliiiiiive

  • (Palazzo Orsini in Italy photographed by Herbert List in the 1930s) The weather has turned sunny and hot, so here…

  • I got this postcard from a supermarket in a small town in NW Germany near where the festival is held.…

  • I love using Photoshop product mockups – there’s something satisfying about creating a total lie of an object that doesn’t…

  • Here’s a playlist I made while I was in Melbourne of (mostly current) Australian stuff I heard played in various…

  • There are of course loads of great record shops in Melbourne. However the problem is that most of the stock…

  • Everything has been grim- the world, politics, more personal matters. Here is a short playlist of a certain mood of…

  • I was a teenager in the dark ages when you had to have lightning reflexes to tape songs you liked…

  • Here’s a playlist. There’s a certain early 80s synth pop mood, even if all the songs aren’t actually from that…

  • If you are playing an electric guitar or bass, you will need an amp. Here’s a guide to how they…

  • I haven’t posted much this month because I was ill- not ill enough to need medical attention or be bedridden,…

  • To travel in between Vienna and Graz, until the never-ending tunnel under the mountains is finished later this decade, you…

  • I’ve been in Vienna and now a tiny village on the Austro-Hungarian border for the last few weeks. Here’s what…

  • I haven’t done a playlist on here in a long time, so here’s one. All of a certain mood and…

  • I wrote a few of these music basics guides to use in a promo zine I used to make with…

  • I took some photos of my “broken folk” musician friends the Lunatraktors doing a Halloween performance. The setting was an…

  • I designed this poster for my friend Henry, based on Ware landmark Scott’s Grotto, but forgot to post it here.…

  • Last week I went down to Pegwell Bay in between Ramsgate and Sandwich to take some press shots for my…

  • Today’s song- Rice Dream Girl by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Longing and sadness captured on nothing but a microphone…

  • Today’s song is Black Cat, by Broadcast, from Tender Buttons, one of my all-time favourite albums (I was torn between…

  • So another song- Pig by Sparklehorse. I was considering picking Tears on Fresh Fruit, which is my other favourite song…

  • Kevin who I run Connect Nothing With Nothing with has an improv group called Ghost Fang. Each performance includes whatever…

  • I took some press shots of “”pineal-poking punked-up psychedelic speedfreaks” Casual Nun at Dreamland when they came down to Margate…

  • So next up, Nice by Kleenex. (Who later had to rename themselves Liliput after pressure from the tissue company). Infectious…

  • So I thought I would pick a song I like each day, and write something about why I like it,…

  • Hello from the southern hemisphere. Here’s some new press shots of my friends’ band Bismuth I took a few weeks…

  • People loved the poster, so I got some merch printed up to sell at the festival, and some local friends…

  • So here’s another gig I’m helping to organise and did the poster for. This time I went for a pretty…

  • Here’s another gig poster I did (this time for a gig that’s already passed, because I’ve been so slack about…

  • So here’s the posters I designed for two gigs I’m helping to put on- one in London, the other in…

  • Here’s some photographs I took of my friends’ band Very Friendly. For a while we had intended to take some…

  • Here’s a gig poster I drew recently. I was given free reign to do whatever I wanted, and it turns…

  • So I recently did some artwork for an album cover- Human Ruins by Dawnwalker (featuring Dane Cross from Sacred Son, who…

  • The second half of January has been a bad time for me, with a lot of very difficult things to…

  • I recently went to a local gig put on by Art’s Cool raising money for the local domestic abuse support…