Derek Robertson

Amsterdam, Malmo

Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Writer & editor. ✍🏻 for @guardian, @Independent, @NME, @VICE, @theQuietus, @timeout, @TheFaceMagazine & more.

Articles

Behind the screens: Video & screens business focus

1 month ago | iq-mag.net | Derek Robertson

IQ dives into the cutting-edge innovations, logistical challenges, and fierce competition in the high-stakes sector of video and screen technology. Once upon a time, concert screens were an afterthought – grainy, oversized TVs ensuring the folks in the cheap seats got a glimpse of the action. Now, they’ve become an essential part of the spectacle, almost as much a headline act as the artists themselves.
The freight unknown: The logistical labyrinth of transporting tours

2 months ago | iq-mag.net | Derek Robertson

Moving arena- and stadium-sized shows from city to city isn’t just a logistical challenge – it’s a high-wire act of precision and creativity. Behind the glamour of sold-out spectacles and dazzling performances lies a logistical labyrinth that rivals the most complex of stage designs.
5 questions for Internet Works' Peter Chandler

Feb 21, 2025 | politico.com | Derek Robertson

Internet Works' executive director Peter Chandler. Hello, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Future in 5 Questions. This week I interviewed Peter Chandler, executive director of Internet Works, a trade group for small and medium-sized tech companies that includes Discord, eBay, Roblox and Reddit as members. Chandler, a former lobbyist for the industry group TechNet and chief of staff to Reps.
Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk fails to land the plane

Jan 31, 2025 | washingtonexaminer.com | Derek Robertson

There are certain films that look incredible — on paper. Those films are often put on the “Black List,” a register of the most-loved unproduced screenplays in Hollywood as determined by a survey of Hollywood machers.
So long, goodbye: Sum 41 tour report

Jan 28, 2025 | iq-mag.net | Derek Robertson

Tenth grade, 1996. A fledgling high school band called Kaspir in Ontario, Canada decides to change their name, as their new music – mainly inspired by NOFX and hardcore punk – no longer suits their original moniker. For various reasons, “Sum 41” is chosen; within two years, they release a mixtape called Rock Out with Your Cock Out and songs with catchy titles like Grab The Devil By The Horns And Fuck Him Up The Ass.
David Lynch, 1946-2025

Jan 23, 2025 | washingtonexaminer.com | Derek Robertson

To the extent the “average person” was aware of the work of David Lynch, the visionary surrealist director who died on Jan. 15 at the age of 78 after a bout with emphysema, they might have simply summed up his work as “weird.”Which would not be strictly incorrect, given the grotesque humanoid creatures, sudden acts of extreme violence, and incongruous slapstick humor that marked his film and television oeuvre spanning more than four decades.
Why Trump’s AI plan made Elon Musk flip out

Jan 22, 2025 | msn.com | Derek Robertson

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The 16 Best Airbnbs in Amsterdam for 2025 | Best Amsterdam Airbnbs

Jan 17, 2025 | timeout.com | Derek Robertson |Rosemary Waugh |Edward Cunningham |Alex Floyd-Douglass

From luxury floating apartments floating to Red Light District bangers, these are the best Amsterdam Airbnbs, from a local who knows the city inside out.
The year in 5 questions

Dec 20, 2024 | politico.com | Derek Robertson

Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. We’re devoting this last Friday of our newsletter’s year to the tech thinkers, policymakers and developers who taught us the most about the digital future.
Why the Dune TV show failed at where the Dune film franchise succeeded

Dec 5, 2024 | washingtonexaminer.com | Derek Robertson

Dune: Prophecy, HBO’s prequel series to the blockbuster films of the same name, opens with a quasi-cryptic epigraph about war set against an abstract, smoky monochrome backdrop — an implicit promise to the viewer that it will deliver more of the awesome, austere sturm-and-drang that made those films the most artistically successful fantasy adaptations since Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.