Back in 2021/22 I almost completely stopped voluntarily listening to music. Not out of protest or as some kind of mindfulness practice, but because the sheer amount of music available to me, combined with my mental health at the time (like a lot of people, the post Covid years were dark ones), meant that I couldn’t listen to a song all the way through without skipping it. It was compulsive. Even songs I liked didn’t make it all the way through to the end.

The refusal to properly teach the arts means entire generations will grow up believing creativity is not for them, or worse, believing they themselves are not creative. Which is ridiculous because everyone can be creative. Yes, even you, even if you think you can't. Creativity just doesn’t always look the same, and that is one of the first things you learn when you are given the opportunity to engage with the arts. It teaches you there is no right way to think, make or expres

Our SPLINTR 2025 Documentary, GXRLS MAKE GLASGOW: From Fragments to Festival is officially live.

Over the weekend of August 15th, 2024, I went to We Out Here Festival (WOH). Having grown up attending festivals across the UK since I was 8, this one felt refreshingly different for a commercial festival. It wasn’t just another lineup of artists or a space for big commercial acts; it was a homegrown celebration of music and culture that felt linked to the UK arts and music scene. 'We Out Here Festival, inspired by the 2018 Brownswood Recordings compilation of the same name,

Pippa Blundell is crowdfunding to raise money for her debut album!