Audio and Tech Copy and Content
James Grimshaw
Copywriter // Freelance Journalist // Creative
United Kingdom
West Yorkshire-based writer and musician, with fingers in many editorial pies.
United Kingdom
West Yorkshire-based writer and musician, with fingers in many editorial pies.
Audio and Tech Copy and Content
A review commission from TechRadar/Future Publishing.
An editorial piece exploring different studio setup arrangements, commissioned by MusicRadar/Future Publishing.
An editorial guide on starting to play the acoustic guitar, commissioned by Guitar World/Future Publishing
A review commission from Loudersound/Future Publishing.
A commission for the London Evening Standard's ES Best section, rounding up the best electronic drum sets for beginners.
A commission for the London Evening Standard's ES Best section, rounding up the best keyboards for beginners.
Drinks Writing
A round-up review commission from BBC Good Food, taste-testing the best English whiskies.
A commission for the London Evening Standard's ES Best section, taste-testing great Shirazes
I bless the capes down in South Africa
Music Journalism
Album review for Post-Trash.
EP premiere for Post-Trash.
It's a nerve-wracking five minutes as this interviewer ping-pongs between the disparate denizens of Belgrave's mid-sound-check Music Hall in search of the elusive 'Joe', ostensibly in charge of whisking me backstage to meet the evening's headline. Anonymous Records-signed electronic duo Polo are triggering samples on the stage while I get rebuffed by the third not-Joe...
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart stand strong as indie-pop's bastion of sincerity; each release and every song blisters with an open-ness that brings to mind a group of friends, together on tape, hearts on sleeves - eliciting something of that first feeling on listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's first.
We arrive at Duke Studios' little-known Sheaf St. Cafeteria after a 45-minute wander through the fresh squabble of Wednesday night's hopeful drunks and yet-to-bes. The squawk of Fibre's hen-party smokers fades to nothing as we cross the Aire, and even the reliable shunt-and-wheeze of Leeds' constant bus traffic gives way to silence by the time we reach The Tetley.
The debut album of Nate Brenner, polymath instrumentalist best known to date for his work as bassist in tUnE-yArDs, is one to which I have been looking forward for some time.