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Most of my recent writing has been for The Rodeo, an independent online and in-print music magazine. I have been published regularly in the magazine since Volume 2, interviewing artists such as Alfie Templeman, Ezra Furman and Marika Hackman - I most recently wrote the cover interview for Volumes 13 and 15, where I interviewed ​The War On Drugs and MUNA respectively.

While print content is exclusive to the magazine – which you can buy here – below are some examples of written pieces I've had published on The Rodeo's website. 

Alongside the writing itself, I have been an Editor for The Rodeo since June 2019, starting out with the online pieces and moving more recently into the proofreading and editing of each magazine volume. 

Visit their main site here, or my author's page here.
MUNA for Vol. 15. Credit: Caity Krone.
MUNA for Vol. 15. Credit: Caty Krone.

Music Venue Trust warns 20 grassroots venues could close for good

1/4/2021

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March 2021 marks an entire year since our lives were first forced to a halt, twelve months since ‘unprecedented circumstances’ and ‘new normal’ became the phrases of the zeitgeist. But while many businesses have flirted in and out of opening to the public, music venues have remained dormant. The worry now is that some may never wake up.

Music Venue Trust (MVT), a registered charity since 2014, works to protect the hundreds of grassroots music venues found across the UK. In November 2020, MVT announced that 30 of these venues were at risk of permanent closure following the pandemic – including Boom in Leeds, The Windmill in Brixton, and Spiritual Bar in London. While 16 of the original 30 sites have now been removed from the so-called Red List, a further six venues were added in their place last week.

“The crisis is nearing its final lap, but we need to make sure these venues finish the race,” says Mark Davyd, CEO of Music Venues Trust. “With the support of artists and audiences, we have fought our way through the last 11 months venue by venue, case by case, trying to make sure that we are able to Reopen Every Venue Safely.

“These 6 newly highlighted venues need urgent help, and we still have 14 venues that were on our original Red list that we can’t yet guarantee will survive to bring live music back to our communities. We are completely determined that they will.”
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Grassroots venues hold a crucial place in the UK music scene, providing a platform for emerging artists to progress and acting as staples of local communities country-wide. London’s The Black Heart has been running a crowdfunding campaign, reaching out to the local community as a small, independently owned venue...
Read the full article on The Rodeo here.
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We watched The Mercury Prize

1/4/2021

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The Mercury Prize winner was announced on The One Show last night.

September: now six months since Bojo clamped down on all things fun and populated, and gig-less we remain. In half a year, no one has felt the bass of a speaker thud across their chest, nor begrudgingly sacrificed next month’s rent for a pint of ‘whatever’s cheapest’. Withdrawal symptoms settled in across the nation: better hearing, fewer crowd-induced bruises… nasty stuff, really. Thankfully, just before bucket hats began to see a new life as makeshift face coverings, we were gifted a taste of what once was.
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The Mercury Prize Album of the Year is an annual excuse for any British melomaniac to spend the night in with a few drinks, a few mates and quite literally some of the finest new music around. While watching the ceremony often risks major audience-envy as the crowd screams applause after each set, this year was significantly more personal to watch. Naturally, live performances were out of the question, but many of the shortlisted artists were able to deliver pre-recorded sets specifically for the BBC’s coverage of the event: an hour-long compilation of these performances, presented by Lauren Laverne and uploaded to iPlayer. Not a bad deal, all in all – in fact, many of the videos made it feel like I was standing at the front row of an actual gig, too engrossed by the musicians to notice anyone else around. It’s as close to a concert as I’m getting, anyway, so here are the highlights from The Mercury Prize 2020.
Read the full article on The Rodeo here.
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Donna Missal reveals what she’s learned about music, the industry and herself

1/4/2021

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Just before the release of her second album, Donna Missal sat down for a strikingly honest conversation about her career so far.

“I’m really excited by the concept that people change.”

Within minutes of our conversation, American songwriter, singer and musician, Donna Missal, reveals herself to be as intriguing, profound and promising as this one statement. At the time of our call, she was also merely a week away from releasing her second album, lighter.  

“I definitely feel like a totally different person from when I was writing my first record – and I would hope so! You’re allowed to do things differently, to think differently, change your mind, grow and come to understand things in a new way through perspective and through life experience.”
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The new record introduces a greater level of cohesion and vulnerability compared to her 2018 debut, This Time. Turning to music to get through a difficult time, lighter brought Donna perspective and relief as she poured out her feelings – it’s no wonder, then, that it all came together relatively quickly.
Read the full article on The Rodeo here.
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GIRLS: our top five music moments

1/4/2021

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​The world is bored. I am bored. So bored, in fact, that I’ve been watching horror films just to feel something besides the monotony of my new existence (cheerful, eh?). When that failed, I turned to nostalgia, a bittersweet remedy which many of us will have pulled upon of late: the film we once knew line-by-line; the playlist that soundtracked last summer; the Monopoly board reeking of Christmas fallouts.
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A strong contender for my favourite TV shows, GIRLS was what I returned to… again. I like to consider it a sort of Sex & The City for twenty-somethings who don’t have it figured out yet. Hannah, Jessa, Marnie and Shoshanna were my Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda: relatable, honest, funny and also (as chance would have it) living in NYC. The lines are iconic, the characters are as unique and complicated as you can imagine, and – needless to say – the music is also a fucking treat...
Read the full article on The Rodeo here.
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HAIM outdo themselves on brave and eclectic third album

1/4/2021

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I was almost nervous to hear this new record. Sometimes, after months of teasing with studio clips and new singles, a long-awaited album can come off anticlimactic – as with pres and the club itself, the hype can feel better than the main event. It was stupid to think this could be the case for HAIM: it seems these sisters have a knack for consistently outdoing themselves.

On their third and most exceptional album yet, Women In Music Pt. III (dubbed wimpiii) sees HAIM delve even deeper into stark honesty and emotional vulnerability: ‘I Know Alone’, ‘Now I’m In It’ and ‘I’ve Been Down’ carry a similar theme of depression, while ‘Hallelujah’ depicts the grief of losing a childhood friend. Although their prior records have often portrayed HAIM’s emotions in a raw and candid manner, wimpiii sees the band truly open up through lyrics that cut true for musician and listener alike:‘Days get slow like counting cell towers on the road / I know alone and I don’t wanna talk about it’.
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The record takes time, too, to address wider issues such as sexism: ‘Man From The Magazine’ calls out the misogyny of the music industry, namely in the comments made towards female artists...
Read the full article on The Rodeo here. 
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