I’m trying to get back into writing. Non work-related stuff I mean. I used to do a lot of music writing, but it all kind of fell by the way when I was hit by the dazzling bright lights of PR.

But I want to start again. So, with that in mind, a while back I contacted the wittiest music blog around, MyChemicalToilet.com, to offer myself up as a reviewer (free gigs FTW!). I’m pleased to say that the fruits of my first labour, a gig review of… well, an interesting night, have been published today.

“Once inside it became clear that this wasn’t some shoddy, lazily-organised corporate wank-off for social meeja, internet-y types. Aside from headliners Pet Shop Boys, Little Boots and Hot Chip there were mixology lessons, a digital graffitti wall, a fortune teller, X-rated bingo and a tattoo parlour for punters to get a semi-permanent reminder of the night. Mine (a classy rose on my left breast) turned out to be rather more permanent than I expected, still very visible at the gym the next day despite hours of scrubbing.”

The full post is here:

http://mychemicaltoilet.com/can-you-gig-it-smirnoff-experience-ur-the-night-feat-pet-shop-boys-little-boots-matter-the-o2-10709/3853#more-3853

It reminded me of some of the other things I wrote that are still lurking around on the interwebs… Some bits for Men’s Health:

Book Review: The New Erotic Photography
Book Review: Do it Yourself/
Book Review: I’ll Be Watching You

(Yes, the top 2 are basically porn, but it was so they could use the pictures online and bring in web traffic… sigh…)

And some stuff for the excellent music/lifestyle mag LeftLion in Nottingham (my uni days):

Album Review: Chemically Imbalanced by the Ying Yang Twins
Album Review: Concrete Jungle by Ch’ill Crew

And hopefully more on the way…

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