My colleagues Maddy Radcliff and John Shortell joined me outside Parliament this morning as we met highly-respected sound engineer Olga FitzRoy
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MP4 v Homelessness
I was invited by Kevin Brennan, MP for Cardiff West, to the launch this evening of MP4’s new EP at
Venues Day
Music Venue Trust held their 5th national networking event today in the Islington Assembly Hall and MU Live Performance Official Kelly
Young driver
Following a morning training with The Warren football club in West Wickham Common, and a fry-up at T’s Cafe in
UK Music Album Quiz
To mark National Album Day, UK Music held a quiz this evening in the Silver Cross pub in Whitehall and fifteen
Debut with the Blues
With the completion of the Labour Conference in Liverpool, I travelled down to Birmingham by train on Thursday 27th to
Labour Conference
I travelled by train to Liverpool on Friday 21 September, to attend and work at this year’s Labour Party Conference
The Musician (Sept)
The autumn 2018 issue of The Musician, featuring a wraparound cover photograph of percussionist and West End stalwart Matthew West, is
Music Council
I attended the launch of the Council of Music Makers (CMM) at the Strongroom, Shoreditch this afternoon alongside my colleague
Night of the Proms
Courtesy of my booking an advertisement for the MU in the Proms programme (140,000 copies on sale throughout the eighth
Night on the town
Following a few productive hours at MU HQ in Clapham Road, including a catch-up with former industry manager Pete Jenner
Langley Park GC
As I am looking to join a local golf club, I arranged to spent the morning playing a trial round
The Warren JFC
Ben was kindly recommended to The Warren Junior Football Club by Alan Duncan, a coach at Beckenham Town JFC, and
Parliamentary Jazz
I caught the tube from the MU offices in the Oval and travelled on the Northern Line into the West
In Ziggy’s footsteps
At lunchtime today, Julie, Lisa, Ben and I could be found at Beckenham Junction Station making up a group of
The Journalist
Following a feature entitled ‘Get even and get paid’ by Mick Sinclair in the July/August issue of The Journalist, the
Kent cricket and golf
I travelled down to Canterbury early this morning to take part in the autumn Kent Legends’ Golf Day. A healthy
Sky falling
An amazing trip to Suffolk as Julie, Lisa, Ben and I drove to Beccles Airfield to support Lisa in her
Southbank concert
A very pleasant evening in the company of photographer Jonathan Stewart as we attended Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank
MU summer event
I collected a transit-style van from Europcar in Clapham Road at ten o’clock this morning so that my colleague Jane
Wigmore Hall
I was kindly invited this afternoon by Victoria Bevan, of PR company Albion Media, to attend a very, very special
Haslemere Festival
A busy few days on and around the weekend. Friday evening saw Julie, Ben and I attend the Langley Park Boys
BBC and Sky News
A busy media-related day in the company of Naomi Pohl, MU Assistant General Secretary, as we visited both the BBC
MPA Summer Party
An entertaining evening courtesy of the Music Publishers’ Association Summer Party, which this year took place in the Battlebridge Room
Labour Live
The Labour Party organised this event and promised “a festival of political ideas, with music, art, workshops and conversations.” I
The Musician (June)
The latest issue of The Musician magazine is being distributed in hard copy format this week, solely to MU members,
Whitehall comms
Following a productive morning in the MU offices, with the Union’s Executive Committee in our main conference room for its