Breaking the ‘Taste’ of Silence: The Revival of ‘What’s Goin’ On’ at the 1992 Bonn Blues Festival

Symposium on Words, Music & Silence (Bournemouth University, June 2024)

I gave a 5-minute lightning talk on the interconnections between silence and ‘What’s Goin’ On’ from a temporal, musical and emotional perspective. 

Hardboiled Blues: Exploring Ian Rankin’s ‘Novel’ Approach to the Music of Rory Gallagher

National Crime Reading Month (June 2024)

I delivered a 45-minute talk on the innovative Kickback City boxset and how Ian Rankin places Rory’s songs at the heart of the accompanying novella The Lie Factory

Amazing Grace in the Life and Work of Rory Gallagher

Cowper and Newton Museum (July 2023)

To mark the 250th anniversary of Amazing Grace, I delivered a presentation for the museum on the importance of the song to Rory.

“Rory played the greens, not the blues”: expressions of Irishness on the Rory Gallagher YouTube channel

British Association for Irish Studies (June 2021)

I delivered a 45-minute presentation based on my recent publication in Irish Studies Review.