BJ Tunstall

Even writing “Yahoo” ages me. I was convinced, like everyone else who signed up to Guardian Soulmates in 2004 that I was diving into a pool of sexy leftists with angular jaws and a man in red Speedos with three…

Morrissey was and still is a self-obsessed jerk but I’d still give him my big toe if he ran out of vegetables. It’s a brave man who has The Smiths in his top ten albums of all time. People get…

Arcade Fire had successfully recruited my body and now they were coming for my soul. I’m an Arcade Fire superfan, ready to do whatever they tell me. I buy the merch and Google search “where does Régine Chassagne live?” every…

Electricity was crackling from Perry Farrell’s eyelids but all the old Jane fans could muster was a foot tap. Jane’s Addiction very kindly came to Brixton in 2014 and did their album Nothing’s Shocking back to back. It was packed…

Even if you hate heavily produced music you have to admire Kanye’s willingness to crack open his sloppy noodle brain and let us dig in with chopsticks. The longest cry in my life was to Runaway on repeat. It felt…

“The Fuck Machine was varnished wood and black metal and rather clunky“ Yes I have one and we’ve been through thick and thin together. I call him John which is just as well because that’s his name. Since 2006 it’s…

“Robert was a hedonist. He was a hedonist not because he was a fag but because he was a hedonist. The best kind” A crazy person said once that “everyone’s life is a form of psychosis in slow motion and…

The British don’t expect to be happy. On this small boot-shaped island miserableness is patriotic. The British are proudly miserable. In the depths of winter misery is a crackling fire in the pit of one’s gut. It’s the only way…

“I was always under the impression the world is complicated. But not a Trumuskian world. It’s simple, beautiful and orange” I was so wrong about Trump. I thought he was going to do stuff but instead he just purses his…

“You deserve to be beautiful and you deserve to be told over and over and over again” I’m in talks with an app developer about creating a new app that cuts out the bullshit. It will be called LOOK. Look…