🌻 I am a London-based musician, composer and writer.
📙 My book Not Quite White is published by Simon & Schuster (Worldwide) and IUP (US).
📍Best place to be it is here UK / or here US.
🎹 I sing and play piano, bassoon, clarinet, guitar.
👑 I do a lot of live scoring (especially for clowns, comedy, improv, drag, cabaret) and musical accompanying.
🎟️ For all announcements and up to date shows/gigs please check my instagram!
🌸 You can also read my sporadic career-related updates on Substack, or my artistic offerings on Patreon
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🌾 My compositions have been used by the BBC, Disney and SXSW among others. I have played (orchestrally and my own work) around the world including Kenya, Tokyo, New York, most major UK festivals and perhaps most memorably, the “It’s A Small World” stage (RIP) at Disneyland Paris. I’ve performed at/hosted events for Future Cinema, Secret Cinema, Olympics, Shunt, Vaults Corps, Pleasance, NESTA, Science Museum, Greenwich Council and numerous others.
✏️ My first viral article What It’s Like Not Being White was front page of Buzzfeed, won a “Best of the Internet” award and I have since written for The Guardian, Mashable, Metro, Stylist, gal-dem, Byline Times, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Refinery29 and many others. I’ve led workshops and lectures for Wikimania; AWP; PoetryFest; Green Man and more.
🎉 Other Places You Know Me From: WOLF PACK; TAPE PARADE; QuizCats; Beetles, Lungs, Kids With Crayons; Laila Rates, Tory Not Tory, Shit or Shed, LailaLectures; collaborations with Stumble Trip, Rhum & Clay, Fine Chisel, Whole Hog, Goth Picnic London, Graham & Steen etc etc etc