
When I first approached Primavera Sound about a press pass for their three day festival in Barcelona, the original intention was to a do a proper write up and review, 1500 words ish, with detailed features on every artist I could see and try and give as accurate a representation of the event as poss

Last year was a very productive one for us at Sweet and Sound. We started off in June with a monthly online magazine and since then have taken on a handful of amazing projects where we have had the opportunity to work with some really amazing and talented individuals. An important part of our s
The first time I read Cormac McCarthy’s remarkable and haunting end-of-the-world novel ‘The Road’, I had the conflicting feelings that the novel was at once ripe for movie adaptation but also that doing so would be a massive challenge. The book is so bleak and restricted of colour and has
In November last year, Berlin celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, the fence that separated the city and Eastern from Western Europe for almost thirty years. I was going to the German capital at that time and felt really lucky for the coincidence. Before I left, my fa
“The world was a mess, but his hair was perfect.” I’m thinking about happy endings and all of a sudden and reasons for things and what the world will sound like when it is blowing up and how late the mall is open on Sundays. It is Los Angeles and it is nowhere. Dear Diary, What a da
Saatchi Judge Kate Bush Note: You will like this more if you do the thing where you make your computer read it out loud to you in a weird voice The real Kate Bush was born on July 30th 1958. She is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Her diverse musical style and idios
The recent release of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Fox, a film created utilising the painstaking process of stop-motion animation, caused me to experience a wave of nostalgic excitement that I had not encountered for some considerable time and provided the catalyst for the article you will now re
When I thought about what I would write in this article I hated the idea of myself sounding like a middle class Dalstonite, who finds the lovely, little, foreign shops selling strange and intriguing oddities so ‘charming’ and ‘cultural’. Having said that, after observing