This came like a flash. Protein asked me if I’d like to pick “five critical/cultural writers you’re following right now”. It took about two minutes of trying to come up with names before I realised that overwhelmingly the discourse I’m taking cues from recently has come not from writers, but from doers.
No shade on writers, though (far from it – see footnote). But the minute I stop to consider whose words linger in my mind most often – who inspires me to write – it’s not professional writers, thinkers or commentators. It’s practitioners. And since much of my work centres on UK music, it’s those practitioners, both within and around the UK music scene, who influence me most.
