Olá de Lisboa!

May 2024

NQ is travelling – watch this space for our interview with a celebrated NL artist, who just happens to be here, doing her fabulous stuff (on tour with an acclaimed production). And we’ll see what else captures our attention on this side of the pond …

(Apologies by the way for this page being offline for a few days. Gremlins have been located and banished 🙂 )

Photo: exhibition, Museu Nacional do Azulejo

Personal soundtrack- A chat with Jamie Fitzpatrick

BY Rebecca Cohoe

“When you’re young, you use music to invent yourself.” So said Jamie Fitzpatrick when I spoke with him about his second novel, The End of Music. Throughout the story, popular songs, from old standards to indie rock, shape the world of his characters. Our conversation ranged from his hometown of Gander to whether or not it is wrong to make your children listen to The Eagles in the car.

All the Joys of the Season!

Meet you back here in January. Our first conversation in 2021 will be with musician Alan Doyle, who tells us of his new collection of stories: “It sort of became…