Swinford Museum Exhibition 2019: The Music and Musicians of Filkins and Broughton Poggs

In 2018 I volunteered to research and curate an exhibition about music and musicians for my local community museum in Continue reading →

Forthcoming chapter in french edition

What a wonderful surprise to find an email asking for an author biography in relation to a chapter which I Continue reading →

Join us at Oxford’s 2018 IF Festival

Come and join myself and Dr Jan Butler at Oxford’s IF Festival on Friday 19th October 7-8.30pm at the Wig Continue reading →

On the ‘rights’ track

I really enjoyed delivering my paper titled ‘On the rights track: song life stories, rights migrations and the priceless ‘original” Continue reading →

Crosstown Traffic: Panel session 3rd Sept ’18

Here’s a summary of the panel session which I’m delivering with my esteemed colleagues from the Music Dept. at Oxford Continue reading →

New Power Generation: 2018 Common People Oxford

The artist formerly known as Prince had been one of my teenage idols from around the mid 1980s up until Continue reading →

Vintage Henry Hall Song Book

I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea to go rummaging through dusty boxes of books and magazines at car boot Continue reading →

Is it just me or does this building distinctly resemble an LP?

I photographed this quirky concrete building at the Aire Du Jura service station in France earlier this year.  The building itself is Continue reading →