Welcome To My Website

Here you’ll find examples of my articles and features, mostly longer pieces from my time working at GQ and Esquire, but also from such publications as the Telegraph Magazine, Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Irish Times Magazine, Sunday Tribune, London Evening Standard, Travel + Leisure, and music magazine The Wire.

Arts: Books/Film/Visual

As well as writing extensively about music, I’ve covered many aspects of the arts – books and film in particular. I interviewed William Boyd for his directorial debut on the Battle of the Somme; Roddy Doyle for the second part of

Jazz

Working at jazz and new music magazine The Wire early on in my career, under the editorship of peerless writer and critic Richard Cook, had a major influence on me – and I’ve tried to maintain a connection with jazz

Speed

I’ve written quite extensively about Formula One, filing reports, mostly for Esquire and GQ, on topics ranging from pit-lane politics/glamour to Bertie Ecclestone and the big business of F1 to the explosive and often race-winning precision of the modern Formula

Travel Stories

Writing travel stories has always been an important part of my work; I’ve been travel editor at GQ and Esquire, as well as London editor of the American magazine Travel + Leisure. At GQ and Esquire I tended to write