My Work With
The New Age Magazine is a brilliant start-up focused on increasing the representation of women and non-binary artists in the music industry. I’ve been working with them for a while. I’ve written many reviews, but some of my favourite work has been interviewing rising star band Lime Garden, liasing with festivals/artists to procure festival passes, and taking photos at RALLY festival.
In the near future, I should be stepping up my role with them. I’m currently with their social media/marketing and I’m also in talks to assist in possible event management.
Rally Festival 2024
RALLY provided me with a photo pass and I managed to take photos of Bar Italia, Sorry, Nilufer Yanya and more.
Extract from my review:
Rally is the festival for Goldsmiths and UAL students/graduates, or those who wish they were. It’s exactly what you’d imagine they’d dream up if asked to organise one. This is a crowd that frequents the Nags Head in Peckham and who knew about Ormside Projects and Venue MOT before they were cool. It’s GALA’s edgy younger sibling, and undeniably it looked great, especially as it grew darker. The Agnes stage was the glowing centre point of the festival with its silver scaffolding and multicoloured plastic panels coming together to resemble something from the original Blade Runner (it’s actually inspired by the painter Agnes Martin and beautifully designed by CAKE Architecture). Most of the festivals drawing names were here, or at the more traditional main stage.
The bad weather was on and off throughout the day unfortunately, as it was the year before. But unlike other festivals, RALLY benefits from being a small, one day affair meaning the mud never became too treacherous - and luckily rain jackets and hoods are staples of the gorp-core fashion most of the crowd adopted: here you were more likely to see Arc’teryx and neutral tones than glitter eyeshadow and crochet bralettes...
RALLY provided me with a photo pass and I managed to take photos of Bar Italia, Sorry, Nilufer Yanya and more.
Extract from my review:
Rally is the festival for Goldsmiths and UAL students/graduates, or those who wish they were. It’s exactly what you’d imagine they’d dream up if asked to organise one. This is a crowd that frequents the Nags Head in Peckham and who knew about Ormside Projects and Venue MOT before they were cool. It’s GALA’s edgy younger sibling, and undeniably it looked great, especially as it grew darker. The Agnes stage was the glowing centre point of the festival with its silver scaffolding and multicoloured plastic panels coming together to resemble something from the original Blade Runner (it’s actually inspired by the painter Agnes Martin and beautifully designed by CAKE Architecture). Most of the festivals drawing names were here, or at the more traditional main stage.
The bad weather was on and off throughout the day unfortunately, as it was the year before. But unlike other festivals, RALLY benefits from being a small, one day affair meaning the mud never became too treacherous - and luckily rain jackets and hoods are staples of the gorp-core fashion most of the crowd adopted: here you were more likely to see Arc’teryx and neutral tones than glitter eyeshadow and crochet bralettes...
The Line Of Best Fit '5 Day Forecast' feat. The Itch, Borough Council & Hot Wax 17.01.24
“The Itch are a bit of a mystery. With no songs released and basically no Instagram presence, it was almost impossible to know what to expect when frontman Simon Tyrie came to the stage duel-wielding synths. But with robot-like noises, witty lyrics, and bags of charisma, all eyes in the venue were fixated on their performance. Their sound is eclectic which isn’t surprising as they’re made up of past and present members of Lazarus Kane, Opus Kink, Regressive Left, and Yassassin...I’d say to go listen but you can’t, so I encourage anyone to buy a ticket to their next gig so you can experience their unique style of performance.”
[full article at TNAM.]
“The Itch are a bit of a mystery. With no songs released and basically no Instagram presence, it was almost impossible to know what to expect when frontman Simon Tyrie came to the stage duel-wielding synths. But with robot-like noises, witty lyrics, and bags of charisma, all eyes in the venue were fixated on their performance. Their sound is eclectic which isn’t surprising as they’re made up of past and present members of Lazarus Kane, Opus Kink, Regressive Left, and Yassassin...I’d say to go listen but you can’t, so I encourage anyone to buy a ticket to their next gig so you can experience their unique style of performance.”
[full article at TNAM.]
Lime Garden Interview Extract
15.02.24
15.02.24
Looking back, what advice would you have given yourselves when you were starting out about 4 years ago now you’ve hit this milestone?
C – I feel like I’ve achieved so many things I’ve dreamt of in my life and I hope to continue on bigger levels but everything happens in ways you won’t expect, is what I would tell myself. I would say to myself you’re gonna do it but in a way you just wouldn’t have imagined.
T – And not to get bogged down by being let down by things. Stuff not going exactly how you envision it doesn’t mean it isn’t ever gonna happen, it just means it’s gonna happen in a different way.
C – I feel like even everything stupid we’ve done, as children, has been for the good, the greater good.
Here we had a slight pause as Leila’s name appeared in the call and we waited for her video to load. After getting her up to speed, Charlotte and Tippi couldn’t hide their amusement as she gave almost the same answer as them to the question. They pointed at the screen open mouthed in silence as she answered.
L – Honestly this is going to sound so cheesy but I think that every single mistake that we made led us to the sweetness of finding us. And I’m so glad that we did it completely ourselves.
C&T – Didn’t we just say this!
L – Aw, that’s so cute!
T – I guess it must be worth something then.
L – That means that all our decisions now are completely unique to us and we’re able to have full confidence in that. I’m chuffed that we did that.
Twin Skeletons Interview Extract
18.04.24
18.04.24
We come to the topic of grassroots venues. As lead singer of fellow female-led band English Teacher Lily Fontaine discussed in parliament a few weeks ago, the closing of these smaller venues has a detrimental effect on the smaller artists who rely on them. Twin Skeletons themselves made an Instagram post on the closure of Bath venue Moles which they refer to as their “second home” and I ask if there’s anything further they’d like to say.
“I try not to not to get too heated.” says Joe after a brief pause, “It’s pretty disgraceful, the lack of support for grassroots venues… Bands like Enter Shikari doing the £1 ticket levy, little things like that can make such a huge difference and prevent such amazing venues like Moles closing down. So hopefully we’ll see a bit more support in future because it’s gonna be a bit of a struggle otherwise.”
Fred continues, reflecting on how it’s affected them personally: “I mean, we wouldn’t even be able to probably play together much at all without Moles there. It’s where we gigged countless times… without that it’d be a real struggle, so it’s a real shame.”
Festivals & Shows Summer 2024
This summer, we’ve had a variety of amazing oppurtunities that have grown the magazine. We were invited by Formula E to curate a lineup of female artists to open their event. I attended and helepd to organise on the weekend itself. I also communicated with multiple festivals in order to have TNAM attend, take photos, and write reviews.
