Category: Music

I first learned what a Northern Soul all-nighter actually was from the back of a chip shop in Whitley Bay, not some scene documentary. I was about sixteen, folding pizza…

I’ve lost count of how many friends have asked me for a Two-Tone ska travel guide over the years, as if you can just follow a map and tick off…

If you’re looking for a British rave heritage travel guide in the usual sense – train times, hotel tips, bar lists – you’re going to be disappointed. For me, the…

I didn’t set out to invent an “East London grime walking tour” for myself, but that’s basically what happened the first few times I wandered around Bow and Stratford with…

If you grew up on guitar bands in the 90s, you’ve probably done a Britpop cities road trip in your head already. Manchester, London, Liverpool, Sheffield: those names come with…

I’ve never trusted anyone who calls punk a phase. A haircut is a phase. Learning the chords to “Wonderwall” is a phase. UK punk was more like someone rewiring the…

If you’d told me at fourteen that one day someone would ask me to write about a “Blur Britpop London walking tour”, I’d have laughed and gone back to taping…

I’ve lost count of the number of friends who’ve asked me to plan “The Kinks Muswell Hill walking tour” for them, as if you can map one of Britain’s sharpest,…

I’m going to say this straight away: if you came here looking for a Coldplay UK travel guide in the usual sense – list of places to tick off, selfie…

I first typed “Kate Bush UK travel” into a search bar in about 2016, sitting in a Premier Inn somewhere off the A1, trying to work out why Wuthering Heights…