Love and rust
It’s hard to understand death. The way people just leave. When you don’t see the body they’re just gone. Everyone I’ve been close to...
The magic of rock & roll
Last weekend this happened at the Rock & Roll Writers Festival at the Old Museum: 2.50 - She Blinded Me With Science: Academics lead us...
Inside a scream
"I Put a Spell on You" as sung by Jay Hawkins I put a spell on you, because you're mine Stop the things you do, I ain't lyin', Yeah, I...
The singer's point of view
This is about my research position. After a year of thinking through the issues, it looks like I've reached the beginning. I played with...
Musica Viva In Schools: A very big adventure
In 2000 we got the band back together. Anje West, Barbara Fordham and I had the chance to audition our unaccompanied harmony trio for the...
On our way...
There’re a lot of paths up the mountain of gospel singing and hand in hand we have walked, the atheist, the humanist and the devout. We ...
Resilience: conferences and thrift shops
People can be adaptable and imaginative, generating something out of nothing…or not. Killing time before boarding the bus home from...
Music and mental health - a ‘doing subject’
Lived experience of mental illness and recovery is now valued highly in new models of care. Experience of community engagement may be one...
Who is singing the song?
So I’m revisiting some dear old friends, old songs that were the staple of my jazz gigs twenty odd years ago, for a nostalgic get...
A personal review of ‘Ephemeral Traces’
This exhibition celebrates artist run initiatives, the galleries, performances and events that bloomed between the cracks in the concrete...