I'm trying to get back into writing. Non work-related stuff I mean. I used to do a lot of music writing, but it all kind of fell by the way when I was hit by the dazzling bright lights of PR.

 But I want to start again. So, with that in mind, a while back I contacted the wittiest music blog around, MyChemicalToilet.com, to offer myself up as a reviewer (free gigs FTW!). I'm pleased to say that the fruits of my first labour, a gig review of... well, an interesting night, have been published today.

 "Once inside it became clear that this wasn’t some shoddy, lazily-organised corporate wank-off for social meeja, internet-y types. Aside from headliners Pet Shop Boys, Little Boots and Hot Chip there were mixology lessons, a digital graffitti wall, a fortune teller, X-rated bingo and a tattoo parlour for punters to get a semi-permanent reminder of the night. Mine (a classy rose on my left breast) turned out to be rather more permanent than I expected, still very visible at the gym the next day despite hours of scrubbing."

 The full post is here:

 http://mychemicaltoilet.com/can-you-gig-it-smirnoff-experience-ur-the-night-f...

 It reminded me of some of the other things I wrote that are still lurking around on the interwebs... Some bits for Men's Health:

 http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Down-time/Review%3A-The-New-Erotic-Photography/v2
http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Down-time/Review%3A-Do-it-yourself/v2
http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Down-time/Review%3A-I%E2%80%99ll-be-watching-you/v2

 (Yes, the top 2 are basically porn, but it was so they could use the pictures online and bring in web traffic... sigh...)

 And some stuff for the excellent music/lifestyle mag LeftLion in Nottingham (my uni days):

 http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm?id=1638
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm?id=1674

 And hopefully more on the way...