Arctic Monkeys – I Wanna Be Yours
Vacuum cleaners, coffee pots, electricity meters – how can a song populated with the determinedly ordinary things of life be […]
Vacuum cleaners, coffee pots, electricity meters – how can a song populated with the determinedly ordinary things of life be […]
I almost titled this ‘Letter’ ‘I Think I See the Light’ – another great song from the soundtrack of the […]
A mix of cultures and references today! This exquisite piece, entitled ‘The Boat’, was inspired by the landscape of Scotland, […]
A companion piece to my earlier ‘Letter’ on The Watts Gallery, this Grade I listed terracotta chapel is just a […]
If you are going to cover an iconic song such as Sade’s ‘Sweetest Taboo’, you have to bring something different […]
Merchant Ivory Productions is synonymous with a certain type of very English filmmaking – period dramas, literary adaption. Although they […]
‘A genius who was not recognised in his time! A poet, a proud Portuguese, original, unique!’ This comment, written by […]
The quiet sleepers of London’s Highgate Cemetery make up a subterranean neighbourhood of their own, and a rather exclusive one […]
I went less for the name of Hitchcock and more for the name of Highsmith – the legendary English filmmaker […]
My summer of wild swimming has been infinitely improved by the accompaniment of Roger Deakin’s classic book ‘Waterlog’. Subtitled, ‘A […]