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THE RODEO

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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.

Nessa, Easy Life and Me: The Tricolour of 2019

28/2/2020

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I bought a bike this year. She was a white, vintage-style old thing that I got for €60 off the French equivalent of Gumtree, and I felt very proud and European of my new mode of transport. I named her Nessa—after the Gavin and Stacey character, oui—and for several months she and I went zooming all over the gorgeous city of Nantes. It quickly turned out she wasn’t worth half that €60: the gears didn’t work, the brakes had a dangerous knack to them, and I frequently had to borrow a spanner to fix the handlebars, which had a nasty habit of moving mid-ride. The French for ‘spanner’ is ‘clé à molette’, in case you were wondering, and no, they don’t teach you that in school.

But I loved her anyway, quirks n all; she was my ride to work every morning, and my faithful companion home after a few sunset beers by the river. She and I were two peas in a two-wheeled pod, but we weren’t alone by any means: accompanying us on every trip was a compilation of tracks that came to define my time in Nantes. Billie Eilish’s ‘bury a friend’ put the attitude in altitude (steep hills and no gears is a vile pairing—10/10 would not recommend), James Blake would keep me going steady at night with ‘Don’t Miss It’, and ‘Feeling Lonely’ by Boy Pablo had me dancing in my pedals no matter how tired I felt.
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One track sticks out, though, one that takes me back to Nessa in a heartbeat; Easy Life’s witty lyrics and lo-fi hip-hop feel soundtracked a huge portion of my time in Nantes, but their single ‘Frank’ was one I particularly vibed with. It made it onto several playlists I had going at the time, would be one I queued relentlessly, and always seemed to play on the same strip of road as I cycled to work...

Read the full article on The Rodeo here.
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