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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 -
The future is now!
how I helped to create a universe for a PlayStation game called 'WipEout'
- posted january 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 -