Blog
Here is the hub of my thoughts; ideas, experiences, everything and anything. If you have something you’ve been thinking about or something you’d like me to write about, let me know.
Summer Too Soon
It's April and I'm sleeping with my window open. It's April and its 23 degree weather when I look at my phone. It's April and I'm sat at my computer in a strap dress looking outside at the beaming sunshine getting excited for festival season...and it's too soon. I...
Festival Responsibility
As festival season draws closer, I’m forced to ask - which ones are actually taking responsibility? Some of you may or may not have seen the recent call-out from Stormzy to Snowbombing Festival. Calling out the festival on Instagram Stories, Stormzy alleged that his...
New Journey
I've had a stress headache for about 2 weeks now. Plans have gone horribly awry due to bad organisation of others. The control is totally out of my hands and everything's gone tits up. I'm having to totally recalibrate the path I thought I was on and the 6 months...
Visa Saga
It is with a sickening pit in my stomach that I have to say that my trip to Nigeria (for which this beautifully redesigned website was made) has been postponed. The Lagos Theatre Festival started yesterday and is running this week and I unfortunately am sat looking at...
‘You Don’t Know Leroy? That Means I’m Blacker Than You’
The darling comment in the headline above was said to me by an inebriated caucasian while I was waiting for my taxi after DJing at the Plough recently. He told me he’d lived in Easton his whole life and was a good friend of Leroy. Did I know Leroy? No. “I’m blacker than you then,” […]
Hair Politics
This week I declined the invitation to play at an upcoming festival that I’d been invited down to review for Bristol 24/7 last year. Due to a sense of loyalty to the organisers I allowed myself to be silenced after an occurrence with security but after being asked to play this year and the issue […]
It’s ok to not be ok
I’m absolutely gutted to say that I won’t be able to attend Boomtown Fair to open the Poco Loco stage at Chapter 10 this year due to unforeseen circumstances. I’ve been looking forward to this show all year and I feel like opening that stage, my favourite of all, has been something I’ve worked towards for years. […]
Inclusion – What It Means To Me
Following on from my thankful list made in Committing To A Multi-Hyphen Life I want to go into a bit more detail on each of the points I made – starting with my role working as Inclusion Officer with Artspace Lifespace and The Invisible Circus. Over the past few months I have been rearranging my life […]
RIP Aretha Franklin, Never Forgotten
The Queen has left us, Miss Aretha Franklin. Aretha you did so much for me you’ll never know. You showed me what it was to be black and proud growing up in a tiny town with not another brown face in sight. You taught me to sing You taught me RESPECT You taught me how […]