The Band at Manchester Opera House
Metro, September 2017 From the moment the safety curtain emblazoned with Ceefax pages rises to the shiny sound of the 1990s Top Of The Pops theme tune, it’s clear which Take That No.1 best fits […]
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Beyond The Wall – Pink Floyd at the V&A
The Arts Society, May 2017 For a band who put the mind-altering mayhem of psychedelic music on the map, the entrance to Pink Floyd’s first international retrospective seems surprisingly literal. But the Victoria and Albert […]
The end of American Idol, the end of talent shows?
A shorter version of this piece appeared in The National, April 2016 She’s a 22 year-old call centre operative who has suffered domestic abuse, spent time in a women’s refuge and has a one year-old child. […]
George Martin remembered
The National, March 2015 Author and television writer David Simon mourned that “if the rest of us could all have such a shepherd for our works, the world might just make sense.” Mark Ronson said […]
Taylor Swift profile
The National, June 2015 It was surely the most interesting corporate tweet for quite some time. When Apple’s Eddy Cue – a senior vice-president at the largest publicly traded corporation in the world, no less […]