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Yorkshire 2112
A mixtape journey into the sci-fi future/past of Yorkshire music
- Posted April 2013 -
The future is now!
How I helped to create a universe for a PlayStation game called 'Wipeout'
- Updated February 2013 -
Pick a sound
A mixtape tribute to the London record shop and label, Honest Jon's
- Posted February 2013 -
The house of King Boy D
The what, where and why of my week as artist-in-residence at Bill Drummond's Curfew Tower
- Posted December 2012 -
A higher state of unconsciousness
Into the dark heart of childhood with the library music of the KPM 1000 Series
- Posted April 2012 -
The Crucible method
A celebration of Sheffield's Crucible Theatre on its fortieth anniversary
- Posted February 2012 -
Your sweet sticky summer
There's nothing like a chill-out mixtape - and this is nothing like one
- Posted August 2011 -
The wage slave's companion
From 9 to 5, from cradle to grave - a mixtape for workers everywhere
- Posted June 2011 -
An abandoned party
It's Sheffield 1985 and I've taken over the tape deck, so press PLAY...
- Posted April 2011 -
Pinning down the past
A voyage around my badge collection
- Part one - Part two - Part three - Part four - Part five -
- updated june 2010 -
An argument in concrete
A personal history of the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
- Posted January 2010 -
The paste land
A memoir from Sheffield's 1985 flyposter frontline
- Posted October 2009 -
Brain aided dancing
Words and music in praise of the mighty Designers Republic
- Posted March 2009 -
Clutching at moments
Thoughts on the Terence Davies film 'Of Time and the City'
- Posted October 2008 -
Above and below
Photographs of Sheffield, its flats and its subways, taken in 1987 and 1988
- Posted April 2008 -
Mapping the Liverpool underground
A journey to the centre of the creative universe and a tribute to Adrian Henri
- Posted January 2008 -
Sweating together
April '93 at Wembley: when United met Wednesday, it was so much more than a game
- Posted November 2007 -
For the Lyceum with love
A history of the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield - first written in 1990
- Posted August 2007 -
Withnail and me
Birthday special: reaching forty with the film that makes everything worthwhile
- Posted June 8th 2007 -
Catherine Cookson and a pig's head
(Very) short fiction from '07 and photographs from '86, all inspired by Sheffield's Sheaf Market
- Posted February 2007 -
Sheffield Sunday
Photographs from a 1986 'Jazz For Lunch' session at the Leadmill, Sheffield
- Posted November 2006 -
Destroyed by gods
Words and music to conjure up a long lost Sheffield of the soul
- Posted October 2006 -
In praise of seventeen
Things I remember from my age of enlightenment
- Posted October 2006 -