Mind If I Have A Quick Word?
'Best ever? Oh, no, I'd say about sixth.' Owen grabs himself a Glasto scoop (pic: www.crushimages.co.uk)
I'm an experienced freelance journalist, having filed copy for well over a thousand commissions.
I recently stood down as music editor at Bristol's Venue magazine after eight years, the better to build on a freelance career undertaking work for publications including the Daily Telegraph, Observer, The Big Issue, Musician, and The National (Abu Dhabi).
I've completed multiple assignments for each, presumably because I hit deadline, word count, brief, and write with a little colour.
I'm well-versed in feature writing, reviews, opinion columns, copywriting and sub-editing, with work covering everything from theatre to food, travel to current affairs, and plenty more besides. Oh, and music. Lots and lots of music, across all genres.
So, whether you've an exact brief, a vague idea, or simply an urgent need for your pages to be filled with oh-please-just-something, get in touch. The words and ideas are ready to go.
Meanwhile, as a wee taster, please find a selection of writing on...
Music - Full interviews and live reviews including CW Stoneking, Smoke Fairies, Glastonbury 2011, Rumer, Martha Reeves, Anika, The Hinkley Veltones, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Franti, The Tennessee Three, Barry Adamson, and Rodriguez.
Assorted - Foraging with the Guardian's Alys Fowler, cycling the Ashton Court mountain bike trail, TV and restaurant reviewing, reporting on a self-build housing project, an introduction to Bath's Jane Austen Festival, and a pub review.
Humour - Columns on bicycle bells and The Truth.
Fiction - A short story and a pair of flash fiction pieces.
A style that suits? There's plenty more where that came from; should you wish to see any of it, here's a contact page from which to email or tweet me. In the meantime, if you'd care to enjoy a little holding music (thanks Radix), I'll get back to you forthwith.
And also - just in case, for I may be at the baker's or somesuch - a joke. What do you call an evangelical smurf in the middle of the Sahara Desert? Four words. Close your eyes and give it twelve seconds.
I recently stood down as music editor at Bristol's Venue magazine after eight years, the better to build on a freelance career undertaking work for publications including the Daily Telegraph, Observer, The Big Issue, Musician, and The National (Abu Dhabi).
I've completed multiple assignments for each, presumably because I hit deadline, word count, brief, and write with a little colour.
I'm well-versed in feature writing, reviews, opinion columns, copywriting and sub-editing, with work covering everything from theatre to food, travel to current affairs, and plenty more besides. Oh, and music. Lots and lots of music, across all genres.
So, whether you've an exact brief, a vague idea, or simply an urgent need for your pages to be filled with oh-please-just-something, get in touch. The words and ideas are ready to go.
Meanwhile, as a wee taster, please find a selection of writing on...
Music - Full interviews and live reviews including CW Stoneking, Smoke Fairies, Glastonbury 2011, Rumer, Martha Reeves, Anika, The Hinkley Veltones, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Franti, The Tennessee Three, Barry Adamson, and Rodriguez.
Assorted - Foraging with the Guardian's Alys Fowler, cycling the Ashton Court mountain bike trail, TV and restaurant reviewing, reporting on a self-build housing project, an introduction to Bath's Jane Austen Festival, and a pub review.
Humour - Columns on bicycle bells and The Truth.
Fiction - A short story and a pair of flash fiction pieces.
A style that suits? There's plenty more where that came from; should you wish to see any of it, here's a contact page from which to email or tweet me. In the meantime, if you'd care to enjoy a little holding music (thanks Radix), I'll get back to you forthwith.
And also - just in case, for I may be at the baker's or somesuch - a joke. What do you call an evangelical smurf in the middle of the Sahara Desert? Four words. Close your eyes and give it twelve seconds.