The 4th Annual Hg Prize

Four years ago, via his blog We Write Lists, our man Stephen started what was to become an annual tradition: The Hg Prize. Completely unrelated in any way to the much more renowned Mercury Prize (honest, it’s purely coincidence that the dramatic change in dates for the award this year happens to coincide with the Mercury’s shift), the Hg Prize rewards the best in British albums.  They don’t choose the winner for the shock factor,... Read More

New Roses

When I was at university, a seemingly distant but devastatingly mere three years ago, I spent most of my degree doing very little theological work at all – not, unfortunately, advisable for a theology student. When I should have been writing examinations of St Augustine’s ‘Confessions’, or picking apart the hebrew language, I was in fact dossing about watching gigs, interviewing musicians and writing for The Mic, our university’s... Read More