Monday, 11 January 2016

The Last Thing We Can Learn From David Bowie

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With the news this morning that he  died at the age of 69 , today is a difficult day to be a David Bowie fan. Like many of us, I grew up in...
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Monday, 7 December 2015

6000 miles from home

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We have to bomb, you say, because they throw gay men off buildings. He was white, and drunk, the man in the bar who denounced my friends...

All that cliche heartleap stuff

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All that cliché heartleap stuff: it happens when I hear you’re coming over, when my phone vibrates and it’s your face I see, and I th...
Monday, 30 November 2015

Telling our lives in their words: Casey Plett, Imogen Binnie and the Never Mind the Hormones Tour

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A bit of disclosure: this post is going to be partly about the night the awesome Never Mind the Hormones tour came to Newcastle, and partly ...
Saturday, 28 November 2015

Howl of the Bantee blog UPDATED

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Yes, after an absence of many months, the blog for my Edinburgh show Howl of the Bantee has been updated to cover the reprise of the show I ...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Of love and rice and water pistols - some thoughts on my Public Address piece - Part Three

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(STOP! This post is a sequel to this one , describing the genesis of my Public Address piece, 'Shotgun Wedding', and this one , desc...

Of love and rice and water pistols - some thoughts on my Public Address piece - Part Two

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Content note: this piece discusses, inter alia, the process by which I decided what type of water pistols to use in my Public Address p...