Things move remarkably fast in a pandemic, but as fast as they move they seem to crawl ever so slowly too. Some things in my life ground to a halt, and others – quite unexpectedly – took over again quickly. To be candid, 2020 did a number on my mental health and for many reasons […]
Fuck man, it’s been a long pandemic – and I hope everyone reading this has kept safe and sound. I thought I’d come back to the blog – even briefly (who knows?) – to give some sort of note as to what’s been happening since April, and it’s hard to know where to kick off. […]
On Monday, a friend of mine, Dominika Klimek, asked if I’d be interested in saying a few words about Brexit for the Czat Czwórki program on Radio Czwórka on Polish radio. Of course, I agreed and enjoyed waffling on about the whole mess – though thankfully it was expertly edited so as not to sound […]
A couple of years ago, my friends – Pete Lambrou and Ciaran Morahan, known collectively as VLMV – asked me to remix one of the tracks from their debut, self-titled album. The spectacular, beautiful The Lighthouse had been taken and fashioned into this gorgeous thing by Tom Hodge, so I decided on the piano-led “The […]
Today sees the opening, such as it is, of my new website – something of a shop window for whatever I get up to in the next year or two. Somethings come and some things go, and sadly, due to a fundamental misunderstanding of the inner-workings of MySQL, I lost most of my blog posts […]
“Polish Indie Pop Perfection” Christmas Underground “Elegant power pop vibes” Destroy//Exist For Fans of… Alvvays, Bernard Butler, Dusty Springfield, Teenage Fanclub Warsaw’s Pop-up Books introduce themselves to the world with their debut single – a double-A-side featuring the joyous break-up anthem, “Without You” and the infectiously melodic sun-drenched pop of “You Are The Summer” – […]
It’s been a long time coming, to be fair, but I can finally tell the world about my new band, Pop-up Books. The band has grown out of a collaboration with Warsaw-based, Seattle singer, Jules Jones. Jules and I met a couple of years ago when she moved to Warsaw to work in the film […]