The Rebel Poetess

  I was quite late to discovering Lewis Capaldi's music, as when he burst onto the music scene- who remembers his first Brits speech, and the contrast between that one and the next?!-I'd been going through quite a difficult time in my personal life and, it's no exaggeration to say, that the songs on 'Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent' really saved me, a light in the dark of a pitch black tunnel I just couldn't see a way out of, metaphorically speaking. So when tickets went on sale for his 2023 tour I was over the moon to be lucky enough to get one. Unsurprisingly the whole tour sold out in one second, although Lewis has now announced new shows in Edinburgh and Chepstow this summer.  I'm not good in crowds at the best of times, so when I realised there would be 15,000 people at Sheffield's Utilita Arena, I'm not gonna lie and tell you my heart wasn't racing with anxiety. The excitement in the Arena was palpable, the only thing I really have ...

 A is for  Apple, Ariana Grande&Awesomeness A really should be for 'allo, because it feels like an aeon and a half since I last posted here. The world's on the brink of a humanitarian crisis, a global pandemic has been and gone(kind of), and I'm still over here writing. But enough about me. How have you been? I can't quite believe it's nearly three years since I posted here. It feels like a lifetime ago, I feel like a lucky cat with nine lives, a few have been used up and finally, after the most chaotic and yet at times calm and peaceful life, it's time for a new chapter. It seems fitting too that there are lots of departures and returns in the world of politics, music, and books. The UK has just welcomed a new Prime Minister-just when you thought it couldn't get any worse than Boris. The speech about Pork Markets alone shows a woman wildly out of touch with what is going on in the world. Which leads on nicely to new music, and as Lewis Capaldi has just ...