As of February 2012, I've decided to stop updating this formally as a portfolio. Thanks for stopping by and reading what I've posted; I decided it was best for me to move on from this and focus on more creative work, instead of documenting simple in-the-job writing.

Monday, 14 September 2009

inthenews.co.uk: Music review - Union (The Boxer Rebellion)

The Boxer Rebellion have a few ludicrous records to their name. It's an impressive resumé that, in all fairness, is detailed thoroughly in this piece (before the review itself, of course...)

Read the write-up of one of the hottest unsigned acts ever by clicking here.

Sunday, 13 September 2009

inthenews.co.uk: Music review - Central Market (Tyondai Braxton)

The composer and guitarist from Battles has decided to make his own seven-track offering and has departed from his usual work with the supergroup to get the sound he wants. It's certainly a strange one...

Find out why here!

Friday, 11 September 2009

gamezine.co.uk: PS3's iPlayer consumption hits hot hot heights

In my next story for Gamezine in the absence of the Big Boss Man, I made sure an interesting trend was covered: that of the PS3's gradual rise to fame with multimedia, particularly following the release of the PS3 Slim.

Read about the PS3's latest steps towards world domination here.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

gamezine.co.uk: Journalistic greed targeted by EA ploy

As my boss is away in India for a week or so, me and a few of the other contributors to Gamezine have been asked to help out with an article or two every day to keep the site ticking over.

In the true spirit of Gamezine, we're wanting to get the stranger topics covered, so I made sure I prioritised this piece about EA's latest marketing ploy.

Click to read about the Dante's Inferno stunt here.

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

inthenews.co.uk: Music review - The Hot Melts (The Hot Melts)

I was given this strange indie-pop-rock concoction to review recently, and it's a pretty surprising effort to say the least.

Click here to find out about their first album.

Thursday, 3 September 2009

inthenews.co.uk: Music review - A Thousand Paper Cranes (Pentatonik)

In another opportunity to look at alternative music in the UK and Ireland, I was given Pentatonik's latest offering to mull over.

Click here for the review.