“I hope James Lawrenson gets cancer.” – Anon, on my preview of the 2008 Latitude festival

For a country minute, I was a music journalist. I did news, reviews and interviews for DrownedinSound and AOL Music / Spinner, but also less prolifically for Gigwise and Clickmusic and once for the Independent (a DVD review of Waltz with Bashir).

To show how trusted a source I was, my name is still mentioned on the Wikipedia page for Chemtrails by Beck.

At one point, journalism.co.uk wrote a brief profile of me, which is tentative in its facts because they never spoke to me.

I refuse to read any of it, as should you, but I collated most of it at sprawlingreels.blogspot.co.uk.

Music journalism was alright, but it got less interesting.

I still like music, do you?

I like the ones with drums.

I learned shorthand, if that’s any consolation.

“James Lawrenson , reviewer gigwise.com, scribal very rave dóm about sheet metal Jakobínarínu The First Crusade , whom he gefur quadri- and ;a) stellar with fimm. He sayest then take staðalmyndina with snivel youth and make fara fram úr accordingly screamingly funny punk rock into breathe allra nýjasti best uppreisnarseggjanna. Textual sayest he fullan vinnudag with húmor and sarcasm and aðalsöngvarinn phono- as though he hafi verið ready snuggle up to strangulate baby-sitter sína in order to walk into away of them extroverted Reykjavik whom he rekur genic time to. He persist for all that liðsmenn accustom accordingly snuggle up to variable namesake as though they allude snuggle up to into einum textual – ;fn) conceived return them thus mörgum sinnum gradient into Twitter Scrabble ).” – A translated Icelandic commentary on my review of Jakobinarina’s first album.