"You should have some readings", said the wedding planner. "It'll give you a chance to take in your surroundings and enjoy the moment". 

"Sure!" We thought. "A reading! We're both journalists and we can read to an acceptable standard. How hard can this be?" 

Long, dark nights ensued, during which...

On February 20th, 2005, the world lost one of its greatest minds. He might not have solved complex mathematical equations, offered solutions to world peace or discovered solutions to deadly diseases, but what he did manage during his 67 years on the planet was to perfect the art of the...

I'm sitting in a stinking toilet block in the back room of a Malmo music venue, wearing two jumpers, a woolly hat, leather jacket and a scarf. I've turned the shower on as hot as it'll go, urging the steam to create a makeshift sauna to try and stop my...

Over the past few years, music fans of a nostalgic disposition have been treated to a series of glorious, tear-inducing comebacks by bands who stole a piece of our hearts and soundtracked a period of our lives.

Last month, Pulp brought down the curtain at Brixton Academy, the last...