The Joy of Essex

So Wilko Johnson has finally gone to the great Oil City above. As a teenager I loved reading about Dr Feelgood in Sounds , with the band des...

Enjoyed appearing on the Ben Fryer show on Radio Essex last week to add my opinion on supermodel and entrepreneur David Gandy telling the Da...

Good piece by Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian today where she argues, "Give me the cheeky Essex that I Iove over a snobby rebrand."...

Essex is Britain’s most misunderstood county claims the cover of Gillian Darnley’s book   Excellent Essex . Certainly the media has appeared...

Told you my work is art... My book The Joy of Essex is on display in a vitrine (that's a posh word for a cabinet) in Michael Landy'...

Enjoyed listening to Radio 3's Odes to Essex series. Would any other county have got its own radio series? Billy Bragg had a lot to say...

Just finished reading a Christmas gift of  Excellent Essex by Gillian Darley. There's some brilliant research in this tome, although th...