Ned VesseySep 18, 20235 minA Sense of DirectionWe use Google Maps all the time. Does this matter? Yes. Last month I moved to Bristol. Within the city I found myself seeking out the...
Ned VesseySep 17, 20232 minNick Mulvey @ Folklore, Hoxton, 14th September 2023There are some artists who win a crowd over purely through their music. There are some who do it through their personality and stage...
Ned VesseyJun 28, 20232 minProtests Stopped PlayAnd why cricket shouldn’t ignore Just Stop Oil. Just one over was bowled at Lord’s before Just Stop Oil showed themselves. It felt almost...
Ned VesseyJun 22, 20234 minAn Audience with a SkylarkWe heard the skylarks long before we saw them. We had been walking all morning, through woodland then up onto a rise that ran like a...
Ned VesseyJun 20, 20234 minThen, Pat CumminsEngland lose a thriller that also shows why there is nothing quite like Test cricket. Was it really only Friday that Zak Crawley smacked...
Ned VesseyJun 19, 20233 minAlbum review: Ben Howard asks all the questions on Is It?‘What’s mine anyway?,’ Ben Howard sings on Spirit, the penultimate track of this, his fifth studio album. ‘My feelings seem to be...
Ned VesseyMay 5, 20224 minFlynn, Macfarlane, the Cedar Wood and StoriesOn Saturday I was fortunate enough to see writer Robert Macfarlane and singer Johnny Flynn’s Lost in the Cedar Wood live show. It is...