PinnedSpringsteen on Broadway: it’s just the working, the working, the working lifeLIKE AMERICA, like most things in life, there’s an easy, surface-level reading of Bruce Springsteen: stars-and-stripes thick-necked…Sep 12, 2019Sep 12, 2019
PinnedI’m not happy, but I’m not unhappy eitherIt’s not so easy to assess the present. But the past is like candlelight: it always looks better than it is. We sit back and replay our…Jan 11, 2020Jan 11, 2020
Little Steven / Steve Van Zandt interview for Record Collector Magazine, June 2019Oct 10, 2021Oct 10, 2021
The yellow sticker hunters: supermarket reductions in the age of covid-19If you are often skint, and can’t afford, say, asparagus, but can afford to hang around nonchalantly while a supermarket assistant makes…Oct 13, 2020Oct 13, 2020
John Akomfrah: The Unfinished Conversation (2013)Tucked deep in the concrete belly of the old power station that’s now the Tate Modern, I watch a narrative unroll on three screens…Nov 12, 2019Nov 12, 2019
Temporary heartI spent the first five years of my life in the middle of a big city and got used to the kind of daily existence where you didn’t have to…Nov 2, 2019Nov 2, 2019
One song, one picture: The River / Bruce SpringsteenIt’s July 2013, and it’s a heatwave. We’re staying in the Peak District for a week, in the house where George Eliot wrote Adam Bede. It is…Oct 12, 2019Oct 12, 2019
Roll Bus Roll: Greyhounding a North American winterDuring the 2016/17 winter break I rode buses between Baltimore, Toronto, Montreal, and New York City. There was a lot of snow. I wrote…Sep 12, 2019Sep 12, 2019
