RHODRI MARSDEN

Writer · Musician · Author · Musical Director · Producer · Composer · Copywriter · Idiot

Things I'm up to

Writing about gadgets and tech as an editorial contributor to the Financial Times’s HTSI magazine. Copywriting for Information Is Beautiful and many others. Produced the new album by Spearmint, and tracks for a new compilation album for Lush’s Handmade Sounds series. Podcast production for Job Shadowing HE. A monthly column for Prog Magazine. Playing with Scritti Politti, Spearmint and Sweet Billy Pilgrim in 2024 and beyond. Working on new music with Lost Crowns, and an album of 101 Classic TV Adverts. Oh, and I wrote, recorded & released a disco album about Brexit which (incredibly) reached the UK Top 75, and a follow up which didn’t.

Publications I've worked for

HTSI / Financial Times · The Independent · The Guardian · i · The National · Classic Prog · High Life · BBC Good Food · Olive · Daily Telegraph · Delicious · Evening Standard · New Statesman · The Times · Shortlist · Stylist · Radio Times · Business Traveller · Word · Time Out · Tank · Cosmopolitan · Classic Rock · Readers Digest · Sunday Express · Glamour · Mosaic · many others

Organisations I've written copy for

Experian · Think Jam · Context Consulting · Corbis · Nokia · Tesco · Addaction · Microsoft · British Gas · BBC · Zeppotron · Information Is Beautiful · RentalRaters · many others

Instruments I play

Keyboards · Guitar · Bass · Bassoon · Musical Saw · [and singing]

Bands I've played in

Scritti Politti · Sweet Billy Pilgrim · Spearmint · Article 54 · Lost Crowns · Dream Themes · Kenny Process Team · Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra · Microdisney · Prescott · Man Diamond · The Rosemary Works · Gentlemen’s Agreement · The Keith John Adams · Frank Sidebottom’s Oh Blimey Big Band · Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves · The Free French · Morocco · Gag · The Keatons · Spam 69

Artists I've performed with

(Some of them were even aware I was there)

Green Gartside · Alexis Taylor · Rosie Doonan · Kev Hopper · Terry Edwards · Rob Crow · William D Drake · Tobias Slater · I Was A King · The Wolfhounds · The Scaramanga Six · Scott McCaughey · Jim Bob · Ella Márjá Eira · Barney Morse Brown · David Thomas · V Ä L V Ē · Tim Keegan · Julie Tippetts · Kami Thompson · Lungleg · Rioghnach Connolly · Sheema Mukherjee · Buntychunks · Charlotte Hatherley · The Loch Ness Mouse · Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen · many others

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