Thanks for visiting my site!  I’ve been writing seriously since August 2013, and it’s something that I really enjoy. Between 2013 and 2019, I mainly published interviews with bands and reviews of gigs and new releases. Feel free to browse my past posts.

I was a regular contributor to PowerPlay Rock and Metal magazine for around five years. I had pieces published on Ever Metal, Rock Regeneration, Lizzie’s Lowdown, Do More magazine, Red Dragon Records, Get Your Rock Out, Metal Temple, and in the Bournemouth Echo and CultNoise Magazine.

To date, I have interviewed Steve Overland (FM, Lonerider), Phil Campbell, Chantel McGregor,  Electric Guitars, Stone Broken, Rival Sons, Asking Alexandria, Nothing More, Heaven’s Basement, Glamour of the Kill and Max Raptor, to name but a few.

I am on a personal journey with my writing; when I started, I was fired up to make a career out of music ‘journalism’ and rose a fair way in a short space of time.  A bereavement, relocation, a new relationship, and a new job meant taking a back seat on my own site to concentrate on writing for other people, as I couldn’t fit everything in.

I went self-employed as a virtual assistant in 2020, and then COVID came along. Trying to keep my new business afloat consumed me, so the music reviewing dropped off a cliff. Now, it feels like a bit of a distant memory!

I do miss the cheeky requests for interviews, the fight to get big PR firms to put little old me on the review list, and the satisfaction I get from publishing my own work on my own site. However, things have changed again over the last few years. I closed my first successful VA business to concentrate more on the writing side of things: I now have my own copywriting and marketing business – Red and White Media Limited – and life continues to take a bizarre series of twists and turns!

People always tell me that I’m a good writer. Over the last few years, I’ve learned so much about writing – copywriting, short story writing, and storytelling in general. I look back on some of the posts on the site and wonder what I was thinking! That just shows how much I’ve grown, and I won’t be changing any of the original posts.

But… I’m going to be starting a new blog on the site, more of a general interest and musings piece, so keep an eye out and do subscribe if you like what you read!

Thank you for stopping by – I appreciate your support!