The prison couldn’t look more like a prison. It looks like a picture of a prison drawn by someone who’d only seen Porridge and maybe some Victorian paintings of correctional institutions. It makes it very difficult to forget where you are. One thing the staff love to do at the prison is show you their […]
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If You Care About Kanye, You Are Doing Festivals Wrong
All of this fuss about Kanye playing at Glastonbury is ridiculous. The thing is, we’re talking about a headline slot, here. That’s at about 9-10pm. Do you really expect to have your shit so firmly together at 9-10pm, on Saturday night, at Glastonbury, that you will be disappointed by a bit of Kanye? I don’t […]
10 Thoughts You Have 10 Minutes Before Going On Stage
Wait. Do I need a wee? No, shhhh, it’s just nerves, you’re fine. This is terrifying. What if I forget all my words? What if I don’t forget my words, but it turns out all my words are terrible and everyone hates it and they hate me and I will have failed forever? This is […]
In Defence of Online Dating
When I was younger/in a long term relationship with someone I met at Uni, I thought that online dating was TOTALLY LAME AND FOR LOSERS, OMG. I was pretty sure that I’d never need to pay a website to find me a boyfriend, because I was really cool and stuff, and surely it’s totes easy […]
Midnight. Not a sound from the pavement.
Memory is a weird thing. Sometimes I get pops and jumps of memory, that just get triggered by stuff. Sometimes memory comes to me in a nice, clean narrative. Sometimes (often with that second kind) I find out later that the memories are just… wrong. Things didn’t happen like that. It’s like my brain’s filled […]
Three Questions
Ruth: Question 1) What do you want to be when you grow up? Lucy: Braver. I want to be fearless, like a mighty Amazonian, or perhaps Boudicca. I sometimes think I don’t stand up for myself enough. Alternatively, a labrador. They always look like they’re having such a good time. Ruth: Question 2) Scenario – […]