Simon Munk
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Award-winning specialist journalist in videogames, technology, cycling and outdoors products. Experienced copywriter. Competent videogame script editor and writer. Half-finished novelist. Mediocre tea maker.
Articles By Simon Munk
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The Undeclared War, Channel 4 review - how would the UK cope...
As the world lurches ever deeper into multiple manifestations of chaos,...
The Bobby Lees, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review – raw a...
In a week when all kinds of people were going bonkers over an octogenarian playing songs from over 50 years ago to tens of thousands of people in...
Album: Imagine Dragons - Mercury - Act 2
“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” That’s the rule, right? Unless, of course, what happens is that you form a...
Glastonbury Festival 2022: an unexpurgated odyssey around th...
Last days of June 2022, I sit in my writing hut. My liver is radioactive jelly, my nose reinforced concrete, my leg muscles marathon-cramped, and...
Man vs Bee, Netflix review - or should it be Bee vs Bean?
Rowan Atkinson’s strange little comedy (written by Will Davies) is the story of Trevor Bingley, a rather pitiable late-middle-aged man who finds a...
Così fan tutte, Royal Opera review - vibrant youth and vocal...
Irish soprano Jennifer Davis, a stunning Elsa in this Royal Opera season's revival of Wagner’s Lohengrin, was the lure to sit through Jan...
Album: Gwenno - Tresor
“The historic, the prehistoric, the natural, architectural, geological, ornithological, or on the side of its folklore, Christian or heathen – the...
The Fellowship, Hampstead Theatre review - strong clashes, t...
I live in Brixton, south London. A few days ago, the borough’s aptly named Windrush Square hosted events which celebrated the contribution of the...
Moon, 66 Questions review - captivating daughter-father dram...
It takes some confidence for a first-time feature director to interrupt her essentially realistic...
Stanislav Aseyev: In Isolation - Dispatches from Occupied Do...
Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer who came in from the...