Whether it’s chairing panel talks at venues including the Barbican and the Southbank Centre, interviewing artists onstage everywhere from Wilderness Festival to the EFG London Jazz Festival, compering the d&b audio stage at WOMAD UK or doing the occasional lecture in travel and music journalism or stint at public speaking, I aim to keep things relaxed, fun and informative. Want me to programme an event? Teach some PR skills? Hold a creative writing workshop? Come up with some music for you? I can do that too.
Some of my events, hosting, consulting and lecturing highlights include:
Compere, Songlines 25th Anniversary event, the Barbican, London 2024
Onstage interviewer, WOMADelaide 2024
Compere, The Forum, Wilderness Festival 2023
Host/compere, d&bsoundscape stage, WOMAD 2023 and booked for 2024
Compere, EFG London Jazz Festival 2022
Compering the Higher Ground: A Night with Patti Smith event at the London Palladium, July 2022
Moderating Funding Panel, LOLA MC London Latin Music conference, April 2022
Compering throughout the EFG London Jazz Festival 2021 – 2024 at venues Cadogan Hall, the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall.
Host, interviewer and researcher New Polish Jazz: Ones to Watch, an online series of five stand-alone interviews with Polish jazz musicians commissioned by the Polish Cultural Institute, London, June 2021
Host, Australian jazz panel, Jazzahead, Bremen 2021 (https://youtu.be/79Ff4RfZWsI)
Online interview with Bab L’Bluz for Mundial Montreal 2020 (https://vimeo.com/478637084)
Onstage interview with iconic West African singer Salif Keita, WOMADelaide 2020
Judge, JAZZ FM Awards 2020
Award presenter, Songlines Music Awards, 2019
Moderator, talks with Joe Lovano & Julia Hülsmann, ECM Records 50th Celebration, EFG London Jazz Festival 2019
Compere and onstage interviewer, d&b Stage, WOMAD UK, 2019
Onstage interviewer, Jazz Lounge, Love Supreme Festival 2019: Q&A with Michael League from Snarky Puppy
Moderator, LOLAMC: Latin Music Conference, La Linea Festival, Bush House, London, 2019
Compere and onstage interviewer, WOMADelaide, 2019, 2020
Judge, AMPLIFY, the Nest Collective’s artist development programme, 2019
Stage One grant reviewer/assessor, reviewer/assessor Momentum Fund PRS Foundation, 2019, 2021
Advisor, Songlines/David Attenborough remix competition with PRS Foundation, 2019
Judge, JAZZ FM Awards 2019
Moderator, two panels on art & freedom, Oslo World 2018, Nobel Peace Centre. http://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/arrangementer/oslo-world-seminars-freedom-whom/
Compere, speaker and moderator, Brightmed & Gibraltar World Music Festival 2018
Compere and onstage interviewer, Novatech stage, WOMADelaide, 2018
Compere and moderator, Hull 2017 City of Culture. https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/mind-run-free-talks-programme/
Host, 50 days at the House of St Barnabas; 2016 talks series with Wolfgang Tillmans, Ivan Smagghe, ESKA 50 days ESKA, Laura Mvula http://b-w.social/KJ6F
Compere, Unamplifire Festival, London 2016
Compere and onstage interviewer, Bowers & Wilkins Sound System stage, WOMAD Festival 2014 to now
Compere and onstage interviewer, WOMADelaide, 2013 to now
Chair and onstage interviewer, EFG London Jazz Festival, 2014 to now (including onstage introductions at a sold-out Royal Festival Hall, 2016)
Facilitator, jazz writing workshop, EFG London Jazz Festival 2013
In-house writer, consultant and interviewer, WOMAD and Real World, including onstage interview with Peter Gabriel at WOMAD 2008
Compere, Celebrating Sanctuary Festival, 2010 – 2013
Speaker/delegate, Australasian World Music Expo 2008 – 13, including onstage interview with Archie Roach at the Playhouse Theatre, 2013
Keynote speaker, Australian Woman of the Year Awards 2009, Australia House, London
Member of advisory committee, Rich Mix
Guest lecturer, travel journalism Southampton University