A little bit of information about the people behind the The Blue Walrus…
Tim [Email/Twitter] – I started TBW in 2006 as a way to share my passion for new music and monthly mixtapes with a wider (read: digital) audience back when I spent my life split between Glasgow and Edinburgh. I have a background in bands, music production, technology and intellectual property, and since moving to London have completed a post-graduate degree in law, consulted for various web properties on digital advertising and have founded a curated news and analysis start-up.
Hamish [Email] – is an enigma
Lauren [Email/Twitter] – Lauren spent the past eighteen months touring the UK and Ireland with various bands, and when she wasn’t on the road, she promoted shows and drank a lot of tea. Now she is settling back into her native Norwich and pursuing that puzzling phenomenon they call a degree, whilst running her own business in digital music PR. She writes about all things folk, folk rock and alternative, occasionally venturing into other genres too, and is especially passionate about live music and DIY artists and record labels.
Gareth [Email/Twitter] is based in the west of Ireland and has been writing since late 2008. He is currently on a sabbatical from formal education, so is technically a student while not having started college yet, though there’s a journalism course on the horizon next year. He’s recently started contributing to TBW and would consider himself capable of taking on all kinds of genres, from indie rock to ambient to punk-pop, and almost everything in between. Strictly speaking, he specialises in instrumental music, be it math-rock, post-rock, modern classical – whatever you might want to call it. He’s drawn to music that is cinematic in nature. He writes new music features and album reviews for TBW.
Emma [Email/Twitter] is currently back in her hometown of Liverpool after living in the East End for three years. After numerous attempts at being the first scouse Pearly Queen failed miserably, she turned her hand to the only two things she knew better than Cockney tradition- music and writing. Combining the two, she has entered a world of limitless opportunity which mixes business with pleasure (plus the occasional bout of deafness). She writes about any bands that take her fancy and you’ll usually find her in the Reviews or Introducing sections of TBW. She’s a sucker for a punk or a band with a distortion pedal set to ‘atmospheric’.
