I’m a freelance writer and copywriter, interested in music, culture, politics, sport and digital culture.
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The Guardian
BBC Phil/Schwarz review – Coult’s bewitching Pleasure Garden goes back to nature
The Patience of Trees review – nature cries out from a concert cocoon
Savitri/At the Boar’s Head review – Holst rarities double-bill offers mixed blessings
Hallé/Berglund review – exhilaration and energy from an orchestra back in business
The Face
Documenting the world’s most endangered McDonald’s
Always Sunny in Wrexham? Here’s how the club’s fans feel about its celeb takeover
Pitch perfect: the mighty power of the FIFA soundtrack
Jazzwise
The Son Shines – Luca Manning profile
True Northern Industry – Jacky Naylor profile
Low End Theories – Daisy George profile
Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble – profile and review
Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat – profile and review
Paint Me A Rainbow – Emma Rawicz profile
The Calvert Journal
In search of the essential: the life and music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág
Your guide to Tigran Hamasyan: the Armenian musician at the cutting edge of contemporary jazz
Igor Stravinsky: where to start with his music
Dragostea Din Tei – catching up with O-Zone
VAN Magazine
I Know, But: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”
Seeing Past the Pastoral in Ralph Vaughan Williams
Digging – An Interview with Cassie Kinoshi
Romantic Comedy – An interview with Kieran Hodgson
Huck
‘Dead time’ and the broken world of work
South Africa’s jazz upstarts are imagining a new nation
The Big Issue
Without support, freelance musicians will continue falling into hardship
Making a great fanfare about the return of brass bands
GRAMMY
Arlo Parks Talks Debut Album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams,’ Winning Over Billie Eilish & Phoebe Bridgers
Meet Nubya Garcia: The Rising Star Taking The London Jazz Scene By Storm Talks Debut Album ‘Source’
Tribune
Behind Durham’s Enduring Mining Tradition
Music Teacher Magazine
Improving bandwidth – National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
Strategic priority leaves a sickly but all-too-familiar taste in the mouth
The Telegraph
Will Britain’s brass-band tradition be another victim of Covid?
Private Eye
Moving target – SBTi and greenwashing