Category Archives: Writing

OneFest / Damon Albarn’s Doctor Dee

Very late on Friday night I was lucky enough to come into a pair of tickets to Wiltshire’s OneFest. I leapt at the chance to go, partly because of the festival’s billing as ‘the first of the season’ (I like … Continue reading

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On Jet Lag

When I first started working on the building sites with Nick, my stepdad, I couldn’t understand How a 50 year-old-man could get up before the birds, Drive hundreds of miles, Grapple with concrete all day, Turn around at dusk, And … Continue reading

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The 2011 Twitter 1-Take Challenge

I was having a bit of an argy on Twitter with @jimmyhatherley (Moneytree) and @punchdrunkpaper (Thomas Tantrum) below. Cue songwriting frenzy. One go at every part, none of it written first. Yes it is A MASSIVE LAME GRUNGE RIPOFF with … Continue reading

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Guest Art Curators: Lonely Joe Parker – Bike Art

(Originally posted on The405.com) October 15, 2010 – Edited by Will Slater Yes, we said yesterday’s piece was the last of the guest art contributions for this month, but it turns out that Lonely Joe Parker sent us one that … Continue reading

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hay. ku?

I don’t normally write haikus or anything, and this one is lame as fuck, and i’m not pretending it’s not. but it just popped into my head, fully formed, and all metred right and stuff, so i think i’m not … Continue reading

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Silence in the Streets

Originally published in The Oxford Student, Feb 2008. Read the original article here (.pdf format): OS6.20.OST OS6.21.OST It’s 8.30 on a wet Monday morning in January. I’m standing beside the Thames outside 11 Millbank – better known as ‘MI5’ – … Continue reading

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