2015: The year we found our Mittens
It was May. I’d been in Barcelona, and had just initiated the development of Ablaze! 11 by interviewing Jason Williamson about the UK’s tragic general election result. I’d also been thinking about the anxiety I was feeling, comparing it to that of a rescue...
Happy New Bunny Ears! Now, things are gonna get personal
Hey! Happy 2016! This is the thing. I have loads of ideas floating round my head and I keep meaning to blog them at you, but their numerousness and my perfectionism means I have been doing exactly nada about it. So the blogs on here have been intermittent, to say the...
Who are you and what do you want from me? Or, the changing fates of Mittens On Publishing
I don’t know if you were wondering, but I’m going to tell you the long story about what is going on with me and Mittens On publishing. Bear with me, or if you’re in a rush, scroll to the bottom to get to the bit where you can tell me what you think about what we have...
The Mark Burgess – John Lydon connection, continued: The Sex Pistols final UK show
Photo: The Pistols at Ivanhoe’s, Huddersfield, 25/12/1977, by Alex Sokol In my last post I said nothing of the connection between the two artists, John Lydon and Mark Burgess. Like countless other punk and post-punk musicians, Mark didn’t know he was...
Why I Didn’t Interview Johnny Rotten
Towards the end of 2014, I had a dilemma. The folks at Off The Shelf literature festival in Sheffield had invited me to interview John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, in front of a live audience.