It was March 2022. Not only was it my birthday month, but I’d just been offered a brilliant new job, my most senior post yet in my 25 year strong NHS career. There was only one way to celebrate: by catching COVID!
The UK feels like a very different place since I was last at a gig two months ago
Another week in December 2021 had passed, full of stress and uncertainty about the immediate future. But then it was Friday night.
Halfway though this, the final Manic Street Preachers gig of this most triumphant year for the band, I had what you might call A Moment.
My very first Ride gig. It had been a long, long wait.
A scorchingly brilliant Manics gig heralding the dawn of a new era.
My eighth time seeing Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds felt very different to previous gigs from the band
My first time hearing Paul Draper sing in over sixteen years. It’s safe to say I was a little bit excited.
“Coming Up” by Suede is an album that soundtracked a period of huge transformation in my life.
Precisely 30 years ago, in 1991, if you’d asked my 16 year old self what her favourite band was, she would have replied without hesitation that it was Jesus Jones.
