If you missed it, yesterday I had a very silly article on the Guardian website in tow of news that Exeter University is offering a film studies module looking at how donkeys have been besmirched by the way they are…
Another post in my occasional series of “Well, I enjoyed this, so you might enjoy it too” series, this time with a football and record shop theme. There was a lovely piece on the Guardian website a few days ago…
Long-time readers will know what a huge fan of the Fall I am, and I am excited that in June I am helping to put on a night in Walthamstow dedicated to the band. Yes, 10 June 2025, come along…
I was very lucky enough to be invited to play at the Peer Hat in Manchester at the weekend as part of the Manchester Folk Horror Festival VII, and so here is my take on everything I saw at the…
I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously…
This monthly series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of…
One of the Leyton Orient regulars, home and away, is looking for some help with research they are carrying out into female football fandom. Rhiannon Harrison writes: “I am currently completing my final research project dissertation at university focusing on…
I’ve released Rosaleen by m-orchestra today – some more of my Fortean electronica. Yay! It isn’t really an album, because it is only 20-ish minutes long. And it isn’t really an EP, because it has seven tracks. I guess if…
There was a lovely bit of radio over the holiday period, where Colin Murray and former footballer and Scottish national treasure Pat Nevin discussed with Leyton Orient commentator Dave Victor how it came to be that the O’s, uniquely in…
It has been a while since the last m-orchestra show, but I am absolutely thrilled to be doing my first gig of 2025 on 1 February at the Manchester Folk Horror festival! The venue is The Peer Hat in Faraday…