Friday, 1 May 2020 / music
Six Music Fans Reveal The Tunes Getting Them Through Lockdown
In these extraordinary times, as we’re parted from our
families, friends and everything that keeps us sane, music is, as it always has been, still there for us. It’s the one companion that can’t be torn away. It’s what we use to
track our lives, to make sense of what is happening to us. Music is more
important now than it has been at any other...
Thursday, 23 April 2020 / music
Big Fat Lockdown Quiz: The Beatles Edition
Beatlemaniacs, listen up! Are you tired of fumbling through questions about the Top 40 and last year's X Factor winner in every Zoom quiz? Itching to show off your knowledge of the intricacies of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership? Then this is the lockdown quiz for you! I've made an easy, medium and hard quiz, so if you're the sort...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020 / poetry
Smear: Poems for Girls published in US
The new expanded edition of Smear: Poem for Girls, which features my poem 'Dust', is now available in the US! Greta Bellamacina is such a beautiful poet and I've admired her work for a while, so it was a great honour to be included in her anthology.
Buy your copy of Smear here!
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Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Five bingeworthy TV shows
With a third of the planet currently in enforced lockdown, just about everyone has a lot more time on their hands than they did a few months ago. While in an ideal world, we'd spend that time learning to speak French or becoming coding geniuses, sometimes there's just nothing better than hitting the sofa with a pack of hobnobs and a good boxset....
Monday, 30 March 2020 / music
Big Fat Lockdown Quiz: General Music Edition
Impress your friends with this music quiz next time you assemble on House Party for your weekly pub quiz. It's split into three difficulty levels, so choose which you feel is most appropriate for your group or mix and match to create your own. Good luck!
HARD
Q1) The most famous version of Twist and Shout was
released by The Beatles in 1963,...
Thursday, 13 February 2020
Ten Karaoke Songs for People Who Absolutely Cannot Sing
There are two types of people in this world. There are
those, like my step-nan Jackie, who have to have the microphone prised from
their clutches after yet another rambunctious rendition of La Bamba. And
then there are those – the introverts, the fatally self-conscious and the simply
godawful singers amongst us – who freeze with terror at the sheer...
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