I had paid just under £80 pounds for LV holiday insurance, the best money we have ever spent in my life and I was very privileged to have experienced such a high […]
In today’s post, John Davis explores ideas of resilience, trauma and resistance/power in ways that critique individualised and overly medicalised notions of trauma. This critique utilises notions of strength-based working and the […]
In this article John Davis continues to discuss his gruelling experience of being hospitalised in the USA. He, specifically, discuses an issue he had with a plastic surgeon. In order to make […]
In the next few articles, John Davis connects his experience of being in hospital to the current Corona virus crisis and explores issues such as loss, survival, friendship and hallucinations. Today’s article […]
Following on from Article 1 In today’s article John Davis continues to recount his harrowing story of being admitted to hospital with gangrene in Phoenix and analyses his experience of having to […]
This is the first of a series of articles where John Davis recounts his experience of receiving life-saving surgery whilst on holiday in the USA and explains how the Social Model of […]
In series of 5 posts John Davis reviews Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album Lost and Found. This first post summarises the different characters that emerge across the album; […]
At a time where listeners are looking for authenticity, Niemann is the real deal; heartfelt, honest and uncontrived. She does for country music what Amy Winehouse did for the blues/jazz sounds. Winehouse’s […]
This third post continues our review of Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album Lost and Found. In particular it discusses how Vanessa Niemann has married the tradition of […]
This post continues our review of Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album; Lost and Found. It discusses four of the songs on the album that include morality tales, Desert […]
