I’m a freelance writer and copywriter, interested in music, culture, politics, sport and digital culture.
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The New York Times
The Guardian
Hallé/Elder review – Elder’s measured passion unleashes Mahler’s magic
Royal Northern Sinfonia/Włoszczowska review – lacklustre start for new venue
Red Note Ensemble; Ensemble Musikfabrik review – manic intensity and the altar of flow
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
Fallon Sherrock: the most talked-about player in darts
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
Things Will Be Different From Now On – Sean Gibbs profile
Alex Hitchcock – interview and review
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
The story of Sofia Gubaidulina, the composer who created music for God in the atheist USSR
VAN Magazine
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