Clare Dodd

March 3, 2020

Popping my Bido Lito! cherry

Clare Dodd

March 3, 2020

Six months to the day after we moved to Liverpool and my first review for the brilliant Bido Lito! was published. It was a fitting flourish to celebrate our happy milestone.

Clare Dodd

February 10, 2020

Books, Feminism, Popular Culture

The ripple effect

Clare Dodd

February 10, 2020

Books, Feminism, Popular Culture

I am feeling angry and aggrieved in a way that I haven’t for a long time. In the history of our civilised evolution there have been leaps forward and stumbles back, and our current time feels like a whip-lash inducing move into reverse.

Clare Dodd

March 31, 2017

Review, Popular Culture, Music

Ethereal powerhouses have us dancing in the palm of their hands

Clare Dodd

March 31, 2017

Review, Popular Culture, Music

Ethereal powerhouses have us dancing in the palm of their hands

Live review of the intoxicating Warpaint, performing at Oxford's O2 Academy.

Clare Dodd

March 22, 2017

Music, Review, Popular Culture

A gig let down by a lack of excitement

Clare Dodd

March 22, 2017

Music, Review, Popular Culture

Review of Goldfrapp's live performance at Oxford's O2 Academy.

Clare Dodd

February 21, 2017

Popular Culture, Comedy, Review, Getting Excited

A night of comradeship, comedy and untold stories at the Red Shed

Clare Dodd

February 21, 2017

Popular Culture, Comedy, Review, Getting Excited

Read my review of Mark Thomas' latest show, The Red Shed, performed at Oxford's North Wall arts' centre.

Clare Dodd

February 14, 2017

Popular Culture, Music

Master of the meta performance has us in stitches

Clare Dodd

February 14, 2017

Popular Culture, Music

Review of Stewart Lee's full-length stand-up show, Content Provider, which first appeared on the Daily Info.

Clare Dodd

January 31, 2017

Music, Popular Culture

A little bit of Nashville on the Cowley Road

Clare Dodd

January 31, 2017

Music, Popular Culture

Check out my live review of the Margo Price Band, which first appeared on Daily Info.

Clare Dodd

January 12, 2015

Books, Popular Culture

Little book review: Jonathan Lethem's 'The Ecstasy of Influence'

Clare Dodd

January 12, 2015

Books, Popular Culture

Finally I can offer a little review of Jonathan Lethem's 'The Ecstasy of Influence' because I have at long last finished it. It only took me two and a half years.

Clare Dodd

December 1, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

Women who know their place

Clare Dodd

December 1, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

A week of women who know their place has helped to put me back where I belong.

Clare Dodd

October 20, 2013

Getting Excited, Popular Culture

Writing what is in the air

Clare Dodd

October 20, 2013

Getting Excited, Popular Culture

When you feel something deeply, it is extremely difficult to translate it into words. They can be so isolating. But this week, I have tried.

Clare Dodd

September 1, 2013

Popular Culture, Writing

Blackberries will always turn to mush: and I'm glad

Clare Dodd

September 1, 2013

Popular Culture, Writing

Seamus Heaney died this week, and with his poem 'Blackberry-Pickings' he has reminded me of the importance of honesty and the danger of influence when experiencing the disappointments of life.