Martha Wainwright is one of those artists that I genuinely don’t know how I didn’t find out about them sooner. I knew of her and that she was basically from musical royalty but any more than that was a mystery to me. She remained this way, a name on my list of artists to listen … Continue reading
So this was meant to go out around the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic ‘I Have A Dream’ speech but I didn’t have time to write it up so here it is now. I found Nina Simone‘s version of ‘I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free’ and started … Continue reading
* Disclaimer- I put Cat Bear Tree on at my club night but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re awesome, if anything it makes their awesomeness more obvious. Seeing live music and bands make up the majority of my free time and while I love seeing new bands I couldn’t remember the last time … Continue reading
I love writing. I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was only 14 and ever since then that’s all I’ve been doing (apart from music, work and actual real life). Recently though, I’ve had the worst writer’s block. Nothing inspires me, I can’t find the time or energy to write and sometimes … Continue reading
Recently I spoke at the amazing DIY Cultures with Black Feminists to talk about black women in DIY culture, with me focusing on black women in DIY punk. Even though we were all so scared we were physically shaking we ended up having a great time and in my research I found this great band, … Continue reading
Some bands need an army of musicians to aid their musical cause, each one of them riffing away, showboating to the extreme with a thousand different instruments in play at the same time. Some bands need that and some need drums, guitar and a whopper of a voice. Cambridge / London-based grunge drenched two piece … Continue reading
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