Hamish Monk

Nov 5, 2024 | clunkmag.com | Hamish Monk

A freelancer with a masters in journalism and over 10 years’ experience writing for content agencies, communications firms, as well as journalistic publications. The first of these safeguards should be a ban on under-18s boybands – a motion that is receiving assent from several leading figures, including Guy Chambers, the co-writer on many Robbie Williams hits, and Mike Smith, former boss at Warner/Chappell.

Oct 22, 2024 | clunkmag.com | Hamish Monk

A freelancer with a masters in journalism and over 10 years’ experience writing for content agencies, communications firms, as well as journalistic publications. The 9th October would have marked John Lennon’s 84th birthday and was celebrated with the release of a series of alternate mixes for ‘Mind Games’. I used the occasion to re-visit this album – the first Lennon ever self-produced, with the help of Yoko Ono and the genius wall-of-sound creator (and murderer) Phil Spector.

Sep 21, 2024 | atwoodmagazine.com | Hamish Monk

Get to know Atwood Magazine‘s writers in our special column where they become the interviewees, sharing their personal playlists and talking about their experiences covering music!Born in the municipal birthplace of radio, Chelmsford, Essex, Hamish Monk sees music as the best tool mankind has yet invented to understand itself. To write about music for him is as much an effort to appreciate how this mechanism works, as it is exquisitely entertaining.

Sep 9, 2024 | clunkmag.com | Hamish Monk

A freelancer with a masters in journalism and over 10 years’ experience writing for content agencies, communications firms, as well as journalistic publications. Despite a smattering of promising stats, UK Music’s This Is Music Creators’ Survey of 2023 painted a bleak picture of Britain’s post-Brexit music industry. Of the respondents impacted by the UK’s dislocation from the European Union (EU), 82% said their earnings had considerably decreased.

Jul 23, 2024 | finextra.com | Hamish Monk

With the UK’s Consumer Duty standard due to come into force this month, it is time for a recap on its objectives, how it is working to improve consumer protection for financial firms, and what can be expected from the annual board attestation on 31 July 2024. Good outcomes for customers Announced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in 2021 and enforced on 31 July 2023, the Consumer Duty standard is described by the Guardian as the UK financial services’ “biggest overhaul in 20 years”.