AKA Dr Disco: Writer / Broadcaster / Countercultural Investigator and Programme Leader for Music Journalism at The University of Chester
Manchester, England
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Fab to see my interview with Mani get some love … he was good company and very funny x
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Just a shout that we’re officially launching our book Transatlantic Drift at Louder Than Words festival this Friday.
After great reviews from The Financial Times to The Wall Street Journal, come along and celebrate.
Tickets from louderthanwordsfest.com and Event Brite
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Good luck / well done to everyone getting A Level results today! I hope you got what you needed and that we will welcome you to Music Journalism at Chester in the coming weeks.
If you have any questions, or would like to apply via Clearing, you can get in touch via the website.
njoyed my appearance on BBC Radio Merseyside today, talking about my co-authored book (with Katie Milestone) - Transatlantic Drift.
I’m on around 2 hours 24 mins in, just after ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’… what a song to try and follow.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002dy…
Me and my partner were caught in the middle of this!
@MENnewsdesk mini "tornado" / "dust storm" in the middle of manchester today... manchester retail park, on great ancoats street!
Fabulous few days at Creative Futures at the University of Chester. Enjoyed my interviews with Dominic Nicholls, Associate Defence Editor of the Telegraph, who was fab with our students; Rob Allen of Maintain Perspective PR and Holly Royle of metal band Disconncted Souls.
Another fabulous weekend at Louder Than Words Festival. Thoroughly enjoyed my three panels, and especially swinging my aged pants in the bar to Daryl Easlea on Saturday night. Music... words... what's not to love?
Louder Than Words festival is on this coming weekend at the Innside Hotel, Manchester.
I will be chairing various panels -
All info at LouderThanWordsFest.com but drop me a line if you’re coming along…. Always good to catch with disco amigos x
Really good to be interviewed by Simon Warner for Rock & The Beat Generation. Fun looking back over it all and trying to make sense of things:
simonwarner.substack.com/p/i…
Back to gorgeous Chester to start up the new year. Looking forward to seeing all the students again, and meeting a packed first year.
It might get loud …
LIVE REVIEW: THE LEMON TWIGS – ACADEMY 2 12/09/24 : Silent Radio silentradio.co.uk/09/14/live…
I love the smell of new books in the morning.
Congrats to the editors of this new Bloomsbury title, and thanks for including my chapter, that opens the collection.
I once met Liam Gallagher and had a chat with him. 96 or 97. In the Hacienda. And that’s about the most Manc thing this Londoner will ever be able to say.
A couple of places picked up on my
Involvement with Jack Jackson’s fab film about the Louder Than Words festival of music writing, and music writing in general : chesterstandard.co.uk/news/2…
