Multi award-nominated freelance journalist, creative copywriter, PR, podcast producer/presenter. Available for hire now.
I’m an award-nominated freelance journalist, copywriter, author, editor, radio and podcast writer/producer/presenter with 20 years of full-time experience across print, digital and broadcast media, currently based between Stockholm, Sweden and my native Scotland. I specialise in music and culture, history, travel, technology, food and drink, city scenes, nightlife, property, architecture, interiors and much more. I’ve produced journalism content for some of the world’s leading media organisations including TIME Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, BBC Radio 4, Time Out, The Big Issue, Huck, Homes and Interiors Scotland and many more. I write the weekly Home of the Week feature for The Times Scotland’s Bricks & Mortar property supplement. I edit the Sunday Times in Scotland’s biannual Review of Independent Schools. I’ve produced written and audio content for leading independent record labels including Secretly Canadian, Domino, Playground, Kobalt and Distiller. I’ve written and edited creative copy for major brands, branded content agencies and arts and cultural organisations such as Guardian Labs, Waitrose, Shure, Glasgow International and the V&A Dundee. I help to run an independent record label called Lost Map, based on the isle of Eigg, Scotland, creating press materials and writing a fortnightly newsletter called Waypoints.
My work.
For up to date samples of my work please see my profile pages for The Guardian, The Times and The Big Issue. For some recent selected samples, click on these links or on images in the grid below.
The 10 most beautiful places in Scotland – Time Out, February 2024
Stop Making Sense review: a once in a lifetime Talking Heads show – The Big Issue, October 2023
Lost Map: How to build a DIY label on love, woolly hats and sheep dung – The Big Issue, August 2023
The common touch: an homage to Britpop icons and TRNSMT headliners Pulp – The List, July 2023
Spend summer in the Alps, where the kingdom of raclette still oozes with life – The Times, May 2023
Experience: I’ve seen Status Quo 487 times – The Guardian, February 2023
The Cure review: top goths tease their bleak but beautiful new album – The Guardian, December 2022
Roxy Music review: arch art-rockers peacock their peerless anthems – The Guardian, October 2022
One-stop shop: popping the cap on Berlin's sensational späti culture – EasyJet Traveller, July 2022
Harry Styles review: joy, tears and conga lines at Harry’s house party – The Guardian, June 2022
Experience: our house was moved to a different town – The Guardian, September 2021
Edinburgh Fringe Is Back. Is a Smaller Festival Better? – The New York Times, August 2021
Greentea Peng: ‘Music has been a healing experience’ – The Big Issue, September 2021
Inside the AI Song Contest – a front page story for The New York Times, July 2021
Fight the power: The rebel photographer who shot life behind the Berlin Wall – Huck, November 2020
Viktor Tsoi: Standing up to tyranny... with music – The Big Issue, September 2020
Welcome Money – a documentary for BBC Radio 4, November 2019
From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of Slaughterhouse-Five – The New York Times, March 2019