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Finalist in the Chartered Institute of Journalists' Young Journalist of the Year Awards, 2025
I have been shortlisted in the Young Journalist of the Year 2025 awards
Feb 281 min read
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2024 wrapped: The best music of the year
This year has been an inspiring year for music. Here are the songs, albums, and EPs, that had the greatest impact in 2024.
Dec 30, 20243 min read
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Liam Payne’s legacy: Ban under-18s boybands
In the wake of ex-One Direction member, Liam Payne’s tragic death on 16 October 2024, calls are mounting for better safeguards for artists.
Oct 23, 20243 min read
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Revisiting Mind Games: A commemoration of Lennon’s 84th Birthday
The 9th October would have marked John Lennon’s 84th birthday. It has been commemorated by the release of a series of Mind Games re-mixes.
Oct 13, 20243 min read
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Letter to The Observer editor
In response to 1st September article by Barbara Ellen: Oasis are back. So why all the hatred?
Sep 8, 20241 min read
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Atwood Magazine: Meet our writers
The story of my life and music: from the formative tracks, to living in the birthplace of radio, to my favourite up-and-coming artists.
Sep 6, 20249 min read
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The music industry must evolve if its artists are to remain Britain’s proudest export
UK Music’s This Is Music Creators’ Survey of 2023 painted a bleak picture of Britain’s post-Brexit music industry.
Sep 6, 20244 min read
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Pond’s Stung! reveals Nick Allbrook as the psychedelic Rumpelstiltskin, though he can spin gold from thin air
Pond has released a brand new album, Stung!, and it’s a squelching doozy
Aug 26, 20244 min read
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CIGARETTES AFTER SEX – X’S
The Brooklyn-based noir-poppers defiantly refuse to re-invent a well-oiled wheel with their ambient third record
Jul 12, 20243 min read
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Maya Hawke – Chaos Angel
American actress and singer-songwriter’s third studio album reveals a subverted meritocratic inflexion of the American Dream.
Jun 4, 20244 min read
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Amen Dunes review: Death Jokes is a post-modern beachball – colourful on the surface and full of air inside
Amen Dunes’ sixth studio album boasts a grandiose concept, and one to be commended, if the simulacrum were handled with panache
May 10, 20245 min read
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Subtle, restrained & emotionally complex: Dehd unveils third single from Poetry
Chicagoan indie-pop band, Dehd, just released the last in a trilogy of singles from their upcoming album, Poetry - due to land 10th May
Apr 30, 20243 min read
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Starburster: Like an iron butterfly, Fontaines D.C. are indestructible and delicate
I challenge you, dear reader, to name a contemporary band capable of dolling out as much channelled, razor-sharp attitude as we hear on Font
Apr 21, 20242 min read
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The Mac is Back: McCartney III
The old hack Mac is back with an 11-track crack at another self-produced album, McCartney III. This time, however, it's gone to number...
Apr 20, 20244 min read
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Correcting Beatles’ history: 5 reasons to watch Get Back
Since the Fab Four rose to stardom in the early sixties, there’s been fierce appetite among Beatles heads for an intimate glance into...
Apr 13, 20246 min read
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