BBC Introducing at Band on the Wall. OneDa, Witch Hazel and the gorgeous Porij. There’s a lot of crummy stuff in the world right now but there’s also, always, music. x

Night and Day: Venue to stay open as nightclub after noise row bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

New Porij album kicks tush x

Really enjoyed doing this Beat Soundtrack. Thanks, Simon

Chester Uni Music Journalism on music manoeuvres, at the very front-line: Night & Day. Thanks to the venue for hosting us and the photography students from Bolton Uni we collaborated with. And the artists - Foarn, Jacob Reddy and the fab Camens, who also agreed to interviews.

Fabulous talk at uni yesterday from Dom Smith, of Soundsphere and Wrestlesphere. Really inspiring.

Very proud to contribute to Jack Jackson’s fabulous documentary about the Louder Than Words Festival, and music writing more broadly. Also proud to see some of my students involved, and the Simon Warner Magazine Archive on full form. vimeo.com/politecompany/…

Really enjoyed this gig, and writing up this review for Quays Life - Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets quayslife.com/reviews/nick-m…

A couple of places picked up on my Involvement with Jack Jackson’s fab film about the Louder Than Words festival of music writing, and music writing in general : chesterstandard.co.uk/news/24411051.…

I once met Liam Gallagher and had a chat with him. 96 or 97. In the Hacienda. And that’s about the most Manc thing this Londoner will ever be able to say.

I love the smell of new books in the morning. Congrats to the editors of this new Bloomsbury title, and thanks for including my chapter, that opens the collection.

LIVE REVIEW: THE LEMON TWIGS – ACADEMY 2 12/09/24 : Silent Radio silentradio.co.uk/09/14/live-rev…

Back to gorgeous Chester to start up the new year. Looking forward to seeing all the students again, and meeting a packed first year. It might get loud …

Really good to be interviewed by Simon Warner for Rock & The Beat Generation. Fun looking back over it all and trying to make sense of things: simonwarner.substack.com/p/interview-28…

Fab Four day out with the fabulous first year of Music Journalism at Chester Uni.

Louder Than Words festival is on this coming weekend at the Innside Hotel, Manchester. I will be chairing various panels - All info at LouderThanWordsFest.com but drop me a line if you’re coming along…. Always good to catch with disco amigos x

Another fabulous weekend at Louder Than Words Festival. Thoroughly enjoyed my three panels, and especially swinging my aged pants in the bar to Daryl Easlea on Saturday night. Music... words... what's not to love?

Fabulous few days at Creative Futures at the University of Chester. Enjoyed my interviews with Dominic Nicholls, Associate Defence Editor of the Telegraph, who was fab with our students; Rob Allen of Maintain Perspective PR and Holly Royle of metal band Disconncted Souls.

njoyed my appearance on BBC Radio Merseyside today, talking about my co-authored book (with Katie Milestone) - Transatlantic Drift. I’m on around 2 hours 24 mins in, just after ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’… what a song to try and follow. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Good luck / well done to everyone getting A Level results today! I hope you got what you needed and that we will welcome you to Music Journalism at Chester in the coming weeks. If you have any questions, or would like to apply via Clearing, you can get in touch via the website.