6th January 2018. Stating a preference when looking for something might sometimes save you time in finding what you think you want, but o...

2nd January 2018. The end of 2017 was a bad time for me. The ghosts, the night-demons, the self-gnawing destroyers were out for me. I had...

27th December 2017. I couldn’t sleep after 5.20 am. I woke up thinking about something I’d said to Radu yesterday – basic stuff about ‘fa...

12th October 2017. Dear and most cherished friends and co-workers in employed positions in the arts and education, I’m writing this to as...

30th July 2017. Tired of the snobbery. Tired of having to negotiate decent wages and working conditions on every new job. Tired of elitis...

24th July 2017. It's to do with the way things change - slowly - sometimes imperceptibly and then sometimes apparently suddenly. How ther...

21st February 2017. I’ve been thinking these last few days how sometimes the way I approach making sound / music is like gardening. The r...

16th November 2016. Getting more and more pissed-off with the accusation that anyone on the left who uses social media is living in a sel...

29th October 2016. Bored Now It’s interesting, isn’t it, how we get bored of unpleasant things? How empathy only lasts for a while. We ca...

21st October 2016. This story may seem a little melodramatic, written a little too large... but I can guarantee it is simply true. The re...

20th October 2016. 'Good news. This is the last time I'll be in. I'm signing off. I start work on Monday.' 'Congratulations. That's great...

19th October 2016. 'Well I'm afraid this demonstrates a pattern of unemployment at this time of year that you should have taken into acco...

18th October 2016. 'Oh we're not signing-on officers anymore, we're 'Jobsearch Coaches.' 'Oh right - did they give you some coaching trai...

17th October 2016. If anyone thinks this story or the story from the film 'I Daniel Blake' is exaggerated or uncommon, think again. I've ...

17th May 2016. Louange à L'éternité de Saint Erik Upon this 150th anniversary of thy birth All praise to thee Saint Erik Patron of the mu...

15th May 2016. I’ve always been a bit slow on the uptake. I nearly always just about begin to ‘get’ something when it’s on its way out. H...

21st April 2016. I play for more dance classes now than I used to. I was very nervous to begin with, because I'd seen really experienced ...

13th April 2016. 'I Live In It' (With Sue Mayo, Chuck Lowry and Magic Me). (An inter-generational dance piece for older women and girls /...

25th January 2016 So often, when I'm making recorded sound pieces, I only manage to discover things when I am able / have enough time / d...

17th September 2015. I’ve been thinking lately about how I get kind of disappointed when things become ‘a thing’. For example, where I li...