Category: Recommendations

Driving to London late at night, trying to stay awake, listening to Radio 1. Lots of solid male artists who have clearly been listening to a lot of Stormzy. And then the first (or maybe the second?) female artist of the show gets played, and it’s like it’s from another planet, and I immediately say… Continue reading Recommendation: Offence by Little Simz

You may not recognise Rachel Bloom’s hands, but… you may not recognise her face also.

How To Be Alone, How To Live Forever, How To Wait, How To Worry, And Yes, How To Love. The creators of the popular podcast, Criminal, surprised everyone when they turned their attention to an investigation of a very different kind. This is Love explores perseverance, obsession, and what happens when we risk betting it all. 

First recommendation of the month, and I am VERY late to the party on the Malcolm Gladwell train. Who has been everyone’s favourite non-fiction author for maybe a decade now. I was recommended Outliers: The Story of Success by my brother, and based purely on the title I already hated it.

Elise Trouw is obviously not the first person to discover a loop pedal, nor the first person to play many instruments on one track, but still, to me, what she does feels new. And perhaps part of that is because tracks built up entirely from loops can often get boring very quickly, whereas her ‘loop’… Continue reading Recommendation: Elise Trouw

As far as I’m concerned, travel TV with a good host is pretty much as good as TV gets. And most of my favourites have been under some other pretext. In the 80s and 90s Michael Palin retraced the journey in the book Around The World In 80 Days. I love love love Andrew Graham-Dixon’s ‘the… Continue reading Recommendation: Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain