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Nov 9, 2021

What to do when you’ve run out of creative energy.

At a time when we’re feeling more uninspired and “meh” than ever, is there anything we can do to jumpstart the imaginative parts of our brains? — Living through a creative drought can be infuriating, especially when you need a steady flow of ideas to pay the bills. Whether you’re making art, music, or coming up with fresh content to promote your business, when inspiration dries up it can leave you wracked with self-doubt and, annoyingly, less…

Creativity

5 min read

What to do when you’ve run out of creative energy.
What to do when you’ve run out of creative energy.
Creativity

5 min read


Jul 1, 2021

How the pandemic destroyed my creativity and how I rebuilt it brick by brick.

At the start of the pandemic, I felt resentful towards anybody who proposed we might use this change of pace to learn a language, take up oil painting or write a novel. “Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague!” Well, blow up my bloomers and stick a quill up my…

Pandemic

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How the pandemic destroyed my creativity and how I rebuilt it brick by brick.
How the pandemic destroyed my creativity and how I rebuilt it brick by brick.
Pandemic

6 min read


Apr 8, 2021

9 delightfully unexpected facts about Lionel Richie

Hello — is it Lionel trivia you’re looking for? It’s 37 years since Hello topped the charts, becoming one of Richie’s best-known hits and Motown’s first million-selling single in the UK. To celebrate the existence of this super-ballad and its famously awful music video, here are some ace facts about…

Music

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7 delightfully unexpected facts about Lionel Richie
7 delightfully unexpected facts about Lionel Richie
Music

3 min read


Apr 1, 2021

Why joining a covers band was the most punk rock move I ever made.

From 1996–2008 I played in noisy DIY bands. I sat in the back of stinking Transit vans. I drove to Durham in an Austin Maestro to play to a room full of exuberant underage drinkers. I secretly photocopied endless flyers at work. I sat in rock clubs and listened patiently…

Music

6 min read

Why joining a covers band was the most punk rock move I ever made.
Why joining a covers band was the most punk rock move I ever made.
Music

6 min read


Mar 26, 2021

Can you make a living from your art? Kate Bush says yes, you can.

The seventies. An era of hairy men with guitars, schmoozy crooners, snotty punk rock and shiny disco. …

Music

5 min read

Can you make a living from your art? Kate Bush says yes, you can.
Can you make a living from your art? Kate Bush says yes, you can.
Music

5 min read


Mar 19, 2021

Jealous Guy and 21 more cover versions that were better than the originals

Way back in March 1981, a swoony cover of John Lennon’s Jealous Guy became the first number one hit for art-school rockers Roxy Music. Roxy’s interpretation poured a shot of heady glamour into the original, catapulting it onto a thousand low-lit dancefloors. …

Music

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Jealous Guy and 21 more cover versions that were better than the originals
Jealous Guy and 21 more cover versions that were better than the originals
Music

6 min read


Mar 13, 2020

Boyfriend in a coma.

The moon leans down, large and white. My eyes are closed but I see you in my dreams. You are standing over me. Your wine-coloured mouth is saying something, I see the shapes. It’s not good, this thing we’re in. This space. You are asking me something, pleading. The sheets…

Music

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Boyfriend in a coma.
Boyfriend in a coma.
Music

2 min read


Mar 11, 2020

The easily distracted person’s survival guide to working from home.

It’s happening. Office workers all over the country are being told to pack up their work laptops, locate the charger for said laptop (shit), access VPN (argh) and work from home. This time just over a year ago I jacked in my own office job to go freelance. I have…

Freelancing

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The easily distracted person’s survival guide to working from home.
The easily distracted person’s survival guide to working from home.
Freelancing

3 min read


Mar 6, 2020

99 Red Balloons: pop as a protest

Nena’s 1983 smash hit 99 Red Balloons is a reliable staple of every 1980s compilation CD and the soundtrack to many a drunken wedding disco. Yet its catchy-like-a-cold hooks belie a more serious political message. The song was inspired by a trip to a Rolling Stones concert in West Berlin…

Music

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99 Red Balloons: pop as a protest
99 Red Balloons: pop as a protest
Music

3 min read


Feb 28, 2020

Atomic: the self-loathing memoir of a girl in a band

Blondie were one of the first bands I really remember. I was introduced to them so early on that, initially, Debbie Harry seemed unremarkable in her women-in-a-band-ness. As I grew out of childhood and into worldly awareness, that concept got flipped. I began to see Harry refracted through the male…

Music

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Atomic: the self-loathing memoir of a girl in a band
Atomic: the self-loathing memoir of a girl in a band
Music

8 min read

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