This week started badly. Like so many weeks of its kind it was proceeded by a triumphant weekend. A reunion…

As luck would have it we received news that Lias would be DJing at The Social and this piece entirely…

As part of our on going ‘We Are One’ week we’re pleased to share this special broadcast from Lias Saoudi…

I recently asked the Irish novelist Rob Doyle to make a contribution to an edition of AMBIT magazine I’d been…

Quick, there’s very little time to spare. We’re almost at the end. The weekends here are impossible as far as…

When this crisis started, when every live music event in the entire world was cancelled pretty much over night for…

My grandmother on my mum’s side, Patricia, died young, in her early fifties. My memories of her are faint, the…

In a state of frenzied arrogance around 18 months ago I took it upon myself to hurl a few digital…

Around the time I started writing these posts I also started writing a collection of personal essays about various periods…

Stood outside Downing Street yesterday I saw something that cut through even my own iron clad pessimism. I haven’t been…

The biggest thing clouding my vision is my martyr complex. Even with all the bountiful fruits that life has delivered…

Of all the weird and wonderful tales to have emerged in the last six weeks, my little brother deciding to…

Certain aspects of my personal hygiene have taken a backseat in recent weeks, with nobody around who could possibly care,…

In the second of our regular collection of letters from Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, the writer’s mind travels from Brixton’s…

Arthur Schopenhauer, it was reputed, would stick to a strict daily routine. He would reveille at 7am, drink a strong…

THE SOCIAL GATHERING X WHITE RABBIT BOOKS AT THE SOCIAL The Social Gathering and White Rabbits Books join forces! Combining…

With special guests Lias Saoudi, Anna Wood, Pete Fowler, Sophie Green + more The first in a new series of real…

In the latest in a series of collaborative exchanges with Lias Saoudi of the band Fat White Family – which…

When it’s a ritual.   Enter the Temple of Gnostic Sonics, a sanctuary of sound from the Music’s Not For…