Welcome to my stream of consciousness; the home of my long format thoughts. I present Up The Trent Without A Paddle podcast with my co-host Kleon Bewley and I’ve previously taken on the roles of music reviewer/blogger, radio DJ, video content creator, musician and social media manager. To keep up to date with the podcast and snippets of my day to day activities, be sure to follow my socials and come here to read my more detailed thoughts.
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Should They Have Just “Let It Be?”
Forty three years after its home media release and fifty four years since its original theatrical release, Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s controversial documentary film ‘Let It Be’ has been given the 4K treatment and is once again available for the world to see via the streaming platform Disney+. When I heard the news I initially thought “what’s Read more
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Reflections on a Week Long Residential
I was hoping to get this written down a little sooner but life happened. To be fair, I was hoping to blog more often this year too but once again, life happened! As some of you will know, I have been studying part time for the last few years. I had the urge to get Read more
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I Need To Reclaim My Identity
Do you ever get that feeling that you have lost sense of who you are? I kind of feel like that’s where I am at the moment. It’s a feeling that I’m all too familiar with but it hasn’t been around to visit for a while! The other day I posted an image to Instagram. Read more
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New Year, New Me?
I’m not a dates person. If something needs to change, change it now because it doesn’t need to “wait until Monday!” However, I’m all for making plans to better oneself. If them plans happen to be new year resolutions, then so be it. For me though, they’ve always been false promises to myself. I can’t Read more
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I Have Fear of Missing Out
I am part of the problem! I’ve already spoken about the one million variants of The Beatles “Now And Then” saying, and I quote, “Personally, I’ll be picking up a black 7 inch vinyl. Am I happy to pay £17.99 for it? Not really. But I will; and there lies the problem. So will every Read more
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Now And Then
The news was finally released – we’re getting a new Beatles single this week. Over forty years in the making, “Now and Then” has been completed and is set to be released on Thursday 2nd November. This is probably the biggest news with regards to a release since we got “Free As A Bird” and Read more
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