TROUSERS Worsted trews, pinstripe Studebakers with sewn-in sandbags, gopher pants, luminous bellbottoms, flapdoodles, ...

Knowing how best to develop your sound as you progress as a band or musician is a conundrum which many musicians do not solve ...

Mother’s black horn comb still tangles a dry, coiled strand of grey hair. Like wire piercing your palm, it keeps growing. The ...

Free Verse is a book and magazine fair. Publishers each have their own stall, and bring along their latest wares for the public to peruse. Free Verse offers the best chance to find innovative, new, ...

Folkestone.  I’m talking about the 1980’s here. Especially in the bus station and Town Centre. Emos? Goths? There’s a ...

This video covers the experimental films of the 1960s, including filmmakers like Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, Marie Menken, Yoko Ono, Yayoi ...

And we all get married in the morning.

This morning I had a browse through the latest issue of “Arcadia: A Journal of Newish Verse” which arrived a few days ago and which I usually ignore because it’s guaranteed to be jam-packed full of ...

Mark Radcliffe (BBC radio) recently described Sentimentalists as, “truly marvellous.” Mark Coles (BBC radio) said, ...

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Car tyres on fire in Soweto. I watched the sea glitter with luminescence in the dark near Jamaica. I missed the green flash of the setting sun in Key West ...

The brutal murder of eight Red Cross paramedics and five aid workers in Southern Gaza on March 23rd 2025 – each shot more than twenty times and then buried in a sandpit along with their vehicles – ...