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Drunken Nights
A quick heads up RE a series of events I’m working on as a producer for the ace Drunken Chorus. Their Drunken Nights are a series of free events in 2 pubs (1 in Croydon, and the other in Tower...
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Towards hope, new conversations, carrying on.
Yesterday I gave a talk to a group of City University students. I was invited to talk to the cultural studies course members by Dr Dave O’Brien about 3 things; firstly my thoughts on (not) digital...
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A mixtape of 2013
This is not a best of list. This is a series of fragments; songs released this year that have thickened with meaning. Songs I’ll hear and almost be able to taste the air of certain moments. An attempt...
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Not a skateboarder
shared on Flickr via a cc licence by old_skool_paul Sometime around the middle of last year I heard for the first time about the new plans for the undercroft on the Southbank. The undercroft is a world...
View ArticleTour dates!
Finally got around to collating all of my upcoming shows. I’m a fan of replicating content, so posting it here as well as on /tour. Info below – more on the shows on the FACEBOOK EVENTS. Check out the...
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It’s hard to be human, isn’t it?
It’s a bitterly cold, drizzly grey day in Stockton-on-Tees, and I’m walking as I talk to Naz (with a zed) about the place she’s from. It’s colder than I expected, somehow I never believe the UK to be...
View ArticleVIDEO – Songs For Breaking Britain
I’m totally delighted to finally be able to share the 4 minute mini documentary MilkTime Productions (hire them!) made of Songs For Breaking Britain. For those of you who don’t know, the show is made...
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Two ways
Today I spoke at a fun little referendum as part of UK:RIP at CPT. The lovely Brian Logan hosted, and speakers were Richard DeDominici, Chris Thorpe, and Thomas Martin. They were all great. Here are...
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Where Games Break
This is a talk I gave on Friday 4th of July at the brilliantly hosted beautifully attended Feral Vector game design event Thanks so much to David Hayward for inviting me to speak, and to Pat Ashe and...
View ArticleChris, Peter, Rajni, Kieran, Chris, Chris, Deirdre, John.
I wrote this after a weekend in Edinburgh which included some of the festival, but not too much. It features 3 different men by the name of Chris, 8 people who I know and 1 person I don’t. The two...
View ArticleSongs for Breaking Britain – London show
Songs For Breaking Britain comes to London on the 5th of OCTOBER – its first fully-fledged outing since the end of making it in March. Except it’s always being made – the show gets re-made every city...
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No More Heroes
Image shared by Nico Hogg on flickr via CC I am sat on a bus. Except I’m not. Because actually my charger broke for my phone a day ago. So when I’m having this thought, I’m on a bus. Even though right...
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Ironman is go!
I AM MAKING A SHOW ABOUT SPORT IT IS EXCITING. This is a long overdue update because most of the updating on this has been via a new subdomain I set up for Ironman especially. And all my new writing is...
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Ridges And Furrows
More great news! I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been selected to be one of 5 artists in residence in four towns and villages across the district of North Kesteven in Lincolnshire. Right where I’m...
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VideoBrains
Photo from GameCity taken by Phillippa Warr TL;DR: go here. Exciting announcement! Jake Tucker, on the strength of a few people’s recommendations (which is awesome) has invited me to be VideoBrains‘...
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(Self) Employment Practices in Games.
My favourite metaphor for creative work is that of crop rotation. I basically know nothing about crop rotation except that some years you won’t plant anything in a field. You’ll just let it sit there,...
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Announcing: the game designers
So a week or so ago I launched a brand new project A Psychogeography of Games. I’ve very excitingly been invited to be the new resident speaker at VideoBrains, starting in June and as I have 6 months...
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Our Heart Is Here
This is from Brixton where the local people are currently fighting to save the arches. Where at the weekend a young man old boy dressed all in black smashed the window of a Foxtons. I condone this...
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A Different Postcode
For 6 days over the past 3 weeks I’ve been working with Applied Theatre undergrads at the UEL Stratford Campus on a piece of story collection-driven participative art making (that’s a mouthful, I...
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Recent games, writing, performing.
It’s been a while! It was 3 months ago I last posted an update on here, largely due to a lot of the work I’ve been doing having it’s own dedicated online presences. Since last writing, I’ve finished...
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