Wedding Music
November 4, 2024
The soundtrack to my wedding in May, with some passing thoughts about the music choices that contributed towards a memorable day. … More Wedding Music
Category: Reviews
Review: Rory Waterman, ‘Come Here to This Gate’
June 24, 2024
Rory Waterman’s fourth volume by Carcanet, Come Here to this Gate, is an unusual and resplendent three-part collection that saddens, amuses, and sticks rigidly in the mind. … More Review: Rory Waterman, ‘Come Here to This Gate’
Review of Alphaville, Eternally Yours (2022)
September 30, 2022
Synth-pop veterans Alphaville begin their 40th anniversary celebrations with a new album of symphonic recordings with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. … More Review of Alphaville, Eternally Yours (2022)
Single fatherhood: Eighth Grade and Captain Fantastic
July 6, 2021
Single fatherhood defines two of the best films I’ve seen in recent years, Eighth Grade and Captain Fantastic. … More Single fatherhood: Eighth Grade and Captain Fantastic
Review of Keane, Cause and Effect (2019)
October 5, 2019
This restrained return for the princes of piano pop is easy to like but harder to love. … More Review of Keane, Cause and Effect (2019)
10 things I learnt at IWMW 2019
July 26, 2019
In June, web and digital professionals came to Greenwich to reflect on the changing face of digital in Higher Education. Here’s 10 things I took away. … More 10 things I learnt at IWMW 2019
Review of Billy Hicks, ‘Connecting’, at the Chapel Playhouse, London
March 5, 2019
A review of Billy Hicks’s candid one-man play about the lonely experience of growing up in a new world of digital technology. … More Review of Billy Hicks, ‘Connecting’, at the Chapel Playhouse, London
Review of Alphaville: Live at the Whisky a Go Go. From Hollywood with Love (2018)
February 23, 2019
Alphaville’s two-night extravanganza at the Whisky a Go Go makes a late but compelling case that they are much more than a synth-pop band. … More Review of Alphaville: Live at the Whisky a Go Go. From Hollywood with Love (2018)
10 things I learnt at IWMW 2018
July 19, 2018
10 things I took away from the IWMW 2018 event on ‘Streamlining Digital’ at the University of York. … More 10 things I learnt at IWMW 2018
Samuel Pepys and His Books
June 1, 2018
Review of Kate Loveman, Samuel Pepys & His Books: Reading, Newsgathering & Sociability, 1660-1703 (Oxford University Press, 2015). … More Samuel Pepys and His Books
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