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March 2014 Hello What an adventurous and busy last month this has been, and especially since February is always a little shorter in days than other more generous months, so…

February 2014 Hello Freshly back from Sydney Australia as I write this, and back into the strange winter European weather that slips between the apocalypse and a pretend-Autumn, so it’s…

January 2014 Hello Welcome to the 2014, a year that the United Nations have designated as the International Year of Family Farming and Crystallography so make of that what you…

December 2013 Hello So it’s now approaching the festive season, where tummies will generally grow fatter, wallets a little lighter and I’ll take advantage of the silence days ahead to…

November 2013 Hello So the clocks slipped back, offering us another comforting hour in bed (or more time to work for some of us) but somehow there’s still never enough…

Hello So I’m writing this towards the end of my Live_Transmission: Joy Division Reworked tour around the UK with Heritage Orchestra, a trip that which has taken me from a…

Hello So beginning on a very positive personal note, after some rather cloudy and murky months after the death of my mother I’m delighted to write that August brought some…

Hello As summer finally appears and then disappears just as quickly, it’s time to take a brief Scanner holiday break to Madrid and Sevilla but before I slip away it’s…

Hello As months go I would like this to be a rarity, since much of these last weeks have been spent in a blur of mourning, administration, preparation and then…

Hello Firstly I apologise for the brevity of the newsletter, but my mother just suddenly passed away in hospital and I’m trying to deal with all the complex grief of…

Hello So I write this in some pain with a torn ligament in my left foot. Departing Amsterdam yesterday I fell down a flight of stairs with my suitcase and…

Hello And what an intensely busy month March turned out to be, beginning with the opening of my show Scanner: A Month in the Life of an Artist at Melkweg…

Hello February has been a month of massively multitasking with intense preparations for forthcoming projects and adventures, many of which will be unleashed in the coming months. So whilst I…

Hello So this year is already developing into a very adventurous one with plans in motion for all manner of surprises and challenges. I began the year wondering if I…

Welcome to a New Year, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium, and the first year to be denoted by four different digits in 26 years, since 1987. I hope…

Hello So another year closes as a new one begins and an opportunity to mentally rewind, pause, reflect and digest all that has happened in just twelve months. As always…

Hello October took me from Liverpool to Warsaw, Salford to Pittsburgh, NYC to Chicago, so I’m delighted to announce no more live performances for the remainder of the year. Most…

Hello Now this has been another adventurous month and as a months rainfall batters the UK in just one day, let me travel back in time briefly for a moment.…

Hello This month I write to you from the seclusion of Rockfield Studios in Monmouth in Wales, the legendary studios doubling up as a farm where such acts as The…

Hello So The 2012 Olympics have begun and a world can now marvel at the surreal, playful nature of British culture, especially displayed in the extravagant and utterly mad opening…

Hello As I sit here listening to the soothingly relaxing ripple of the canal beneath my houseboat in Amsterdam it’s hard to think that these last weeks have been literally…

Hello So May was a month of numbers, from audience figures through to adding one more year to my very own human life form. The The Big Dance School’s Pledge…

Hello! And so another manic month passes by and as fast as I think I have defeated deadlines I find another one raises its gluttonous head, wanting attention. It’s a…

Hello! As if by magic the sun has appeared from grey skies and spirits everywhere have risen in accordance and yet typically I’ve been immersed in a studio beavering away…

Hello This year is already very much a blur with days and now months zipping past, projects opening and closing as swiftly as I blink. February was an utterly frenzied…

Hello February has arrived with a chilly blast, with temperatures plummeting overnight and the employment of Scanner Thermals with immediate effect, and with typical poor scheduling I’m soon departing to…

Hello So welcome to the 12th year of the 3rd millennium, and according to some interpretations, the apocalyptic end of our world as we know it so hope once again…