Entry number 6, 16/03/2025 For the past few years I’ve been helping my friend run her organisation which runs affordable, inclusive songwriting retreats here in Scotland. We take a group
Entry number 5, 24/11/2024 I was supposed to release an album this month, on my birthday, November 14th. I’d come up with the idea of releasing an album on my
Entry 4. June 30th, 2024. On my 18th birthday, my parents gave me a black terracotta jar adorned with red and white love hearts. A smash jar. It comes with
Entry number 2, 01/06/2024 Carrying a frozen pizza home on the bus. I don’t want to write a song about that. Worrying about making rent and all that poor people
Entry number one, 14/05/2024 In the months before my 35th birthday, I found it increasingly difficult to think about anything but death. I’d been writing a lot of songs about
Friendly Festivals in Scotland Illustration by Viki Mladenovski My latest feature for The Skinny is out now in their July issue. I spoke with POWA (Protection of Women in the
In 2019 Primavera Sound became the first major festival to proudly host a truly gender balanced line-up with its slogan The New Normal. For a moment it seemed a new
