Journalism & Essays

I’m a freelance journalist based between Edinburgh and London, who writes about music, culture and climate change.

You’ll regularly find my byline in places like Mic, Euronews Green, Huck, DJ Mag and Mixmag, where I have covered topics like dance music communities, sustainable lifestyle and our relationship with tech.

Below is a selection of my feature and profile writing. You’ll find my most recent pieces on Linktr.ee.

Music

Meet the electronic musicians collaborating with nature through bio-sonification // DJ Mag

Celtic fusion: Where bass meets bagpipes // Bandcamp Daily

Overmono brothers Tom and Ed Russell on performing live: “We have the chance to play our tracks in different ways” // The List

The Rolling Stones vs Silicon Valley: how a band of geeks beat Jagger to rock’s first livestream // The Telegraph

“I just woke up one day and went, ‘Come on!'”: The reinvention of Alison Goldfrapp // Mixmag

Flow Like Water: Young Fathers interviewed // Clash Magazine

Rave Scenes – Edinburgh // UKF

Introducing: Nia Archives // Beatportal

The right to fail: Remembering Glasgow’s The Arches // The Quietus

Unorthodox Event is leading the first queer movement in drum ‘n’ bass // Mixmag

How Scotland’s music scene is surviving COVID-19 // The Skinny

Drum & bass is finally addressing its diversity problem // DJ Mag

The story of Kemistry and Storm, the unsung pioneers of drum & bass // Dazed

Finiflex is the future // The Skinny

Climate

Rice is a silent source of methane emissions: Meet the startup helping farmers tackle the problem // Euronews Green

Swiss company invents a way to break down PFAS with bubbles – but is it just a ‘sticking plaster’? // Euronews Green

Plastic solution or greenwashing risk? How giving plastic credits for crisp bags could save our seas // Euronews Green

New report warns of concerning link between plastic usage and extreme flooding // The Cool Down

Are UPFs really that bad? Here’s what food experts say on the rise of ultra-processed foods // Euronews Green

Researchers have created tiny, “fairy-like” robots that could replace dying bumblebees: “Superior to its natural counterparts” // The Cool Down

Is solarpunk’s utopian dream the answer to climate doomism? // Reader’s Digest

Sperm counts are plummeting worldwide, new study shows // The Cool Down

The guerrilla gardeners of TikTok // Mic

Greener fields: The fight for a green festival recovery // The Skinny

Clear your plate: Cutting food waste // The Skinny

Science & Technology

The hunt for the perfect psychedelic playlist // Reader’s Digest

How your internet habits are increasing your carbon footprint // Reader’s Digest

We need socialism to fix our broken internet // Huck

Does convenience trump privacy? // Bella Caledonia

Books

Miriam Margolyes on her literary hero: ‘He was a bastard, no question, but he wrote like a king’ // The List

Joelle Taylor on the need for constant debate: “If we get rid of that, we’re just a bunch of fascists” // The List

Annie Macmanus on her latest novel: “As a writer, you can’t help but write your own experiences” // The List

How the housing crisis is impacting young people in the countryside // Dazed

Why we need to decolonise healthcare // Reader’s Digest

Kirsty Logan: “Why does a witch have to be this innocent midwife healer?” // The List

Platonic Ideals: Michael Pedersen on boy friends & missing Scott Hutchison // The Quietus

The Instant, by Amy Liptrot, review: love, loneliness and birdwatching in Berlin // The i

Review: Lucie McKnight Hardy’s Dead Relatives is a brilliantly unsettling collection of horror stories // The i

Eris Young on They/Them/Their: “It’s like a primer guide to being a non-binary person” // The List

Film & TV

28 Days Later gutted the apocalyptic thriller – but is it a zombie movie? // The Telegraph

What inspired Tolkien’s Middle Earth? // Reader’s Digest

Bee Asha Singh on Spit It Out: “It started off as something that could use all of our creative outlets to deal with our separate traumas” // The List

Essays

Love in a time of melancholia // Nasty Women, 404 Ink

The anatomy of a Frankenbaby // Monstrous Regiment

(Image c. Paul Hudson, CC BY 2.0)