Recent work
Features for The Guardian and the Observer New Review on director Dan Scanlon’s personal story of loss behind new Pixar film, Onward, British band Cornershop on music, migration, Brexit and Britpop, role-reversals in relationships, the history of women in British rap, featuring interviews with Neneh Cherry, Cookie Pryce, Shystie and more
Forty years on from the National Steel Strike, and how it affected South Wales, and my family: Personal Story in the New Statesman
Meaty profile interviews with Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing, Aldous Harding, actor and musician Keeley Forsyth, Richard Dawson and electronic music artist Laima Leyton for Observer New Review and Guardian Music
Debbie Harry on her memoirs, her happily oversexed youth, her jacuzzi inventions, and how David Bowie’s advice changed her life – interview for Red Magazine (December 2019)
Editorial consultant working on archives for ABBA: Super Troupers at the O2, London – exhibition begins December 2019
A six-month writing project for the fantastic Paraorchestra of Great Britain
Contract copywriter/journalist for Visit Wales and Wales.com, travelling all over the country writing about travel, families and culture
Regular reviews for Mojo Magazine (ongoing), the New Statesman (ongoing), and book reviews for the Mail on Sunday (ongoing)
2019 interviews and features
Turning my anniversary of my dad’s death into a celebration of his life – memoir for The Guardian (October 2019)
Local journalism in 2019: why no news is bad news – interviews for Observer New Review feature (September 2019)
Sam Lee at Lewes Bonfire, and Cate Le Bon going back to her roots in West Wales, and onto international success, after 2019’s Reward – interview for Mojo Magazine (December 2019)
The thirty best music films, chosen by musicians – Neil Tennant, Nadine Shah, Nitin Sawhney and Wayne Coyne interviewed for the Observer New Review (September 2019)
Portishead remember the untold stories of making Dummy, 25 years on – interview for the Observer New Review (August 2019)
The Best Music Festivals in the World – feature for Conde Nast Traveller (August 2019)
Monthly folk column for Guardian Music
On-stage events
The Beatles and Me: Richard Curtis, Alan Johnson and music critic Jude Rogers at the Cheltenham Literature Festival (October 2019)
Launch events in London for Lucy O’Brien’s Dusty: The Classic Biography (Pan Books – September 2019)
David Nicholls on tour, for Sweet Sorrow (Summer 2019)
Tracey Thorn on tour, for Another Planet (Spring 2019)
Radio
30-minute documentary greenlit for 2020 on Peter George, nuclear war and pop culture for Radio Wales
Regular appearances on Radio 3’s The Verb, and news features on Radio 4 (latest: a world without The Beatles on Radio 4’s The World At One and music and the moon landings on Radio 4’s PM).
