Category: Personal

  • Butlerism: How to Review a Gig

    Butlerism: How to Review a Gig

    Just how does Oliver Butler write those damn good reviews, like he wrote this excerpt? All is revealed in this week’s column.

  • Dr Sleepdeprived: How I Learned To Start Worrying and Love Nothing

    Dr Sleepdeprived: How I Learned To Start Worrying and Love Nothing

    If you remember my blog post yesterday (chances are you probably don’t) then you’ll remember how it was called “everything is shite and it’s all Jeremy Clarkson’s fault”. Although I may not be able to put Clarkson behind bars before he does it himself, I can still say one thing: everything is shite.    I’ve…

  • Day 2: The Walking Diet

    Day 2: The Walking Diet

    Very few things genuinely terrify me. Not trying to make myself seem like a hard man, seeing as I’m the total opposite, but I can only list a few things I know would properly scare the fuck out of me. A zombie apocalypse would be one of them. You might be thinking what this has…

  • Day 1

    Day 1

    Where to start… I think anyone whose career or hobby revolves around writing has struck a period of confusion known as writer’s block: not being able to think of what to write. Recently I’d been suffering the same thing, coming up with ideas but never actually forming anything with them which lead to more frustration and…