Category: Music

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…

I’ve lost count of the number of people who’ve asked me about “The Smiths Manchester walking tour” as if you can tick a band off the way you tick off…

I’ve done the Radiohead England road trip without meaning to. Not a checklist with a car and a podcast, but over years of buses, trains and lifts with dodgy clutch…

I didn’t set out to invent a “Birmingham heavy metal walking tour” the first time I went to Brum. I was 19, I’d come down from Newcastle on a Megabus,…