For the first time in what seems like forever, I have a regular job again. Regular, in the sense that I go to an office at a specified time one day each week, stay for a certain number of hours,
leave at a specified time and that’s it for the rest of the week. No midnight skype messages, no urgent phone calls at the weekend, no emails during my holidays…
It’s quite nice for a change 
although I wouldn’t miss the creative chaos my other jobs bring with them for the world.
Do stop by and visit me at NEON and, if you happen to be online on a Tuesday, listen to my NEON radio slot.
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Fiona, March 25th 2010 |
Tags: music journalism, NEON, online
Posted in history of the gab
In Munich, interviewing Bands usually meant traipsing to a horribly overpriced, overdecorated hotel, for a 15-Minute interview slot with a publicist peering over my shoulder.
In Dublin, it meant interviewing a bunch of really nice guys at their local pub for a national music magazine.
Fiona, May 26th 2008 |
Tags: interviews, music journalism, places I've worked, published work, things I've done, work experience
Posted in history of the gab
My interim assistant editor gig at Hotpress was, alas, the only job I’ve ever had that actually impressed people. The street cred associated with writing for an (or THE) Irish Music Magazine is really something else.
Writing live, album and singles reviews about real bands (rather than teenie-pop) and events features is apparently what it takes to be cool.
Oh, it was also great fun and I still write the occasional live review.
Some of the articles published in Hotpress are online, some more are here.
Fiona, April 29th 2008 |
Tags: entertainment journalism, features, music journalism, places I've worked, published work, reviews, things I've done
Posted in history of the gab
Continuing a tradition of being in the right place at the right time, I arrived at my first journalism job just as several others had left the magazine, meaning I got to do their jobs.
In the three months I worked for Sugar magazine, I was an intern by name, but Entertainment Editor might be a more apt description.
I wrote advice and entertainment features, selected films, tv shows and albums for reviews and wrote up all the monthly entertainment gossip.
I regularly prepared and conducted celebrity interviews with all the professional gravitas to be expected of a recent high school graduate. I even got to go to London to interview Atomic Kitten!
Also fun: O-Town, whose career trajectory makes me feel good about the way things have gone for me since this picture was taken.
Fiona, April 25th 2008 |
Tags: celebrity interviews, entertainment journalism, features, film journalism, gossip, interview skills, music journalism, published work, reviews
Posted in history of the gab
