Another time: ‘Kite’ at 30
Kirsty MacColl’s ‘Kite’ turns 30 on 8 May 2019. The resurgent singer and songwriter corralled a career-peaking Johnny Marr, David Gilmour and a coterie of stellar collaborators to create a perfect set of songs plotting a way through early adulthood. Here’s what it’s meant to me. “Another…?”“Time.”“Another…?”“Day.”“Another…?”“Baby on the way.” My best friend Paul used […]
My Writing Process
I have been tagged by novelist SD Sykes in the blog tour titled #MyWritingProcess. It’s essentially a chain letter between writers, where each interviewee answers four set questions. SD Sykes (debut novel ‘Plague Land’, 25 September 2014) has given her answers here. My answers are below. What am I working on? I’m currently winding down my work […]
Postcard 3: In which nothing happens. I think.
A city-break in London, and a paranoia-enducing encounter with Derren Brown