Sean and I go way back. Like, all the way back to last summer, on tour with Sarah Darling traversing the British Country festival scene. We got on well from the outset; him impressing me with his yoga-like sleeping position in the van, me impressing him with my knowledge of Tom Cruise and Scientology.
Read MoreIn my first stint in Oz, all the time I hung out with my friend Arow, I never met her boyfriend Chris - one half of Headlines. So, it was weird to stand outside of Horse Bazaar again on my second Oz adventure, waiting for her to appear, only for this guy to precede her, staring at me like he knew me from a different life. I stared back at him because I felt like I knew him too.
Read MoreAdmittedly, I’m writing about my friendship with Jade Helliwell in reverse here. This is the second project that we’ve collaborated on.
Read MoreNot long after I got back from Sweden - like a couple hours or so - I was asked by Tommy, Fatai’s man with a plan for her European-based stuff, to cover her gig at The Lexington later that week. I’d listened to a few tracks before I got to the venue, but didn’t really know much about Fatai herself.
Read MoreSo, I was gonna do your typical breakdown of the whole tour. Date by date, blow by blow, but it sounded boring to me, so it’d be boring to anyone reading it.
Not that the tour was a bore. Far from it.
Read MoreI had a lot of fun in Sweden. Not a lot of sleep, but a lot of fun. I met a lot of nice people, bumped into someone I knew from university, and launched Underdog Media on my 27th birthday, on a bus from Stockholm to Örebro after staying up until 4am the night before double-checking every link and detail of the site and showreel.
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