Category Archives: Music

What Does An Indie Author Do On A Friday Night

The Cure, Live @ Wythenshawe Park Lauren would love to be here. I imagine she is out there in the crowd somewhere. Getting her ‘Goth On’ and living her best life. Only the Red Marsh King wouldn’t allow that. No, the Red Marsh King ended Lauren’s song. All the inspiration an indie author needs. ApologiesContinue reading “What Does An Indie Author Do On A Friday Night”

‘I was in Year 9 …’

A note found in the margins of an A4 Black Notepad titled ‘2017.’ Odd that Lauren should have signed the entry.  ‘Low’ came out in 2013 as the lead single from the album ‘Feel.’ It helped the album debut at 3 on the Billboard 200. Sadly, only 36 on the UK official album charts. It’sContinue reading “‘I was in Year 9 …’”

A Note in the Margin

Found in the margins of an A4 Black Notepad titled ‘2017.’ Odd that Lauren should have signed the entry.  Find out more about Lauren Miller and her brother, Jake, read ‘The Red Marsh King’ – Book One in ‘The Last Extraordinary Days of Jake Miller’ series on Amazon and free on Kindle Unlimited CLICK HEREContinue reading “A Note in the Margin”

Even Rites of Passage Require Planning

Leeds is almost here. As I type my trusty app tells me there are 15 hours, 41 minutes and 47 second until the festival fun starts. Slightly longer for me. Closer to twenty-four. Plenty of time for planning. Always better up here in the North. Shame Lauren never achieved her dream and like so manyContinue reading “Even Rites of Passage Require Planning”

Lauren Would So Want To Be Like Sophie Aldred

Don’t be surprised if some time in the future she gets handy with a baseball bat.  Watch the Video   The Kids in Spacesuits offer up another slice of hope, in the madness all around us. Click Here to Listen on Spotify Lauren is caught up in a madness of her own.  To find out moreContinue reading “Lauren Would So Want To Be Like Sophie Aldred”

Set Aside The Words Tonight

I thought I saw Lauren in the audience. This would have been her thing. Nieve was electric, a woman embracing her moment, ablaze and alive. ‘Watch It Ache and Bleed’ Nieve calls it an E.P. At 8 songs, I call it an album, perfect in length and perfect in so many other ways. Definitely oneContinue reading “Set Aside The Words Tonight”

Living in a Lost World

We waited.  The curtains at the far end of the room rustled. My heart stalled and my thumbs prickled. They knew something I didn’t.  Something wicked this way comes. Lauren too, if asked in the empty space of night, would say … I Can Never Say Goodbye To Grace, to the one, who like aContinue reading “Living in a Lost World”

The Portrait of a Dead Girl in the Mirror

“Give me, the strength, give me, the strength, give me the strength.” It might well be a mantra, a prayer for Lauren. At the end, in her last dance. Or Grace. The Portrait of a Dead Girl in a Mirror Words don’t wrap themselves readily around ‘The Last Dinner Party,’ and certainly don’t easily explainContinue reading “The Portrait of a Dead Girl in the Mirror”