The second novel by Every Time I Die frontman, Keith Buckley, is a short but brilliant book about what happens when you're forced to bear witness to the events of your past. It follows Scale, published in 2015, and while it carries some stylistic similarities with that book, which centres on an …
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Album Review: ‘Excerpts’ (2017) by Andi Jackson
Andi Jackson and I have been pals for over a decade now, having met in the musical Mecca that is Milton Keynes, where Jackson--a bass player by trade--had been one of the most recognisable faces of the scene, rocking the stage with both The Modus Vivendi and Our Man In The Bronze Age, before …
Primavera Sound Festival 2015
Let’s get the ranting out of the way first, shall we? Maybe I’m just getting old, or maybe humanity is getting worse. Maybe both. I don’t know, but this year—more than any other—I’m finding my levels of irritation at the people who spend the whole time taking photos of the band—rather than …
Book Review: The Art of Character, by David Corbett
There’s a chapter in Chuck Palahniuk’s book, Stranger Than Fiction, in which the author explains how, every year, he finds himself having to re-buy a copy of each of Amy Hempel’s works, having given them all away to friends or fellow writers. In recent years, I’ve found myself doing the same thing …