Katie Goh

Edinburgh

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer and Non-Fiction Editor at Extra Teeth

Articles

Iron & Wine review - shadow puppets and folk-pop combine in singular gig

Oct 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Katie Goh

Sam Beam, better known as his stage name Iron & Wine, is holding court on a crowded stage. Although Iron & Wine is a one-man musical project, Beam is joined by seven collaborators tonight: there are the musicians – covering strings, keys and drums – and then there are the puppeteers: two artists from the Emmy award-winning Manual Cinema work three projectors. On a screen behind Beam and the band, the seated audience is treated to a shadow puppet show throughout the set.
Local news beyond the algorithm

Aug 18, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Katie Goh

In Michael MacLeod’s first reporting job, at the now defunct Wee County News covering Clackmannanshire, Scotland’s smallest county, every story published had an impact on the community. “You had people coming in with guns and knives and bottles of piss to tell you what they thought about you writing about [their] crimes,” he says.
Interviews: Amy Liptrot and Stef Smith

Jul 24, 2024 | festmag.com | Katie Goh

You wait eight years for an adaptation of The Outrun and then two come along at once. Discussions for turning Amy Liptrot’s memoir into screen and stage adaptations began a year after the book was first published in 2016. The Outrun, which recounts Liptrot’s journey to sobriety on Orkney, was a bestseller upon release, shortlisted for major literary awards and hailed as ‘revelation’ by the Guardian for its fresh, accessible approach to nature writing.
‘Where are the artists?’: Muslim creatives call for greater representation in the arts

Jul 14, 2024 | hyphenonline.com | Katie Goh

In her 20-year career as a visual artist, Zarah Hussain has never been commissioned by or worked with a curator at a senior level in the UK who is also Muslim. “Where are the role models in the arts? Where are the musicians and the artists?”The lack of Muslims in the creative sector is a reality that’s been addressed in research published this year.
Sambizanga (1972)

May 18, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Katie Goh

Set in the weeks leading up to the guerrilla war for independence, Sambizanga focuses on the plight of a young couple. Domingos (Domingos de Oliveira), a member of the liberation movement, is arrested, interrogated, brutally beaten and sent to the dreaded Luanda prison by Portuguese authorities. Not knowing of her husband’s fate, Maria (Elisa Andrade) and her child relentlessly search for him, from village to village and navigating a web of colonial bureaucracy.
Pull the Fruit Apart

May 2, 2024 | port-magazine.com | Katie Goh |Words Katie Goh

A visit to the first of California’s orange treesIn 1873, three citrus seedlings arrived in Riverside, California. They had travelled far. Originating in Sao Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, they were carried northward at the request of the US Department of Agriculture. In the US capital, the saplings were re-christened the Washington Navel orange and, now American, they headed west to Eliza Tibbets’ garden in the city of Riverside, 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
Empire Spotlight: Nell Tiger Free Is Coming Out Of The Shadows

Mar 21, 2024 | empireonline.com | Katie Goh

Nell Tiger Free became an actor to exorcise her energy. “I was driving my mother insane,” the English actor explains from her flat in South London. “I had way too much energy as an 11-year- old. So she took me to a Saturday club where I could run around and sing and dance and act.”Twenty-four-year-old Free has directed all that energy into dark-natured, suspenseful projects, from working with directors like Nicolas Winding Refn on Too Old To Die Young and M.
Why Arts Funding is Essential

Feb 26, 2024 | musiciansunion.org.uk | Katie Goh

Even at a glance, the UK’s arts funding is in dire straits. Analysis by Campaign for the Arts found that, between 2009 and 2021, per-person cultural funding was reduced by 50% in England, 33% in Scotland and 36% in Wales, in real terms. After 13 years of Tory rule, grant-in-aid and lottery funding for the arts in England has been reduced by £178 million in real terms, and, over the last decade, Arts Council NI funding has decreased by 30%.
The 50 best albums of 2023, No 7 - Yaeji: With a Hammer

Dec 14, 2023 | theguardian.com | Katie Goh

A hammer can break and it can mend. On the cover of her debut album, With a Hammer, Yaeji wields her own mallet. The Korean-American artist’s face is calm, but the cute smirk drawn on to the tool has an air of playful menace. Is she going to use it to destroy or create? A glance over her shoulder is an invitation for us to follow her and find out.
The Last Dinner Party review - hyped baroque-pop band build a following

Oct 9, 2023 | theguardian.com | Katie Goh

‘This next song is about feminine rage,” announces Abigail Morris on the first night of her band the Last Dinner Party’s UK tour. She begins a falsetto verse, accompanied by the band’s guitarists – Georgia Davies on bass, Lizzie Mayland on rhythm, Emily Roberts on lead – and keyboardist Aurora Nishevci, to delighted shrieks. Yet, post show, fans will be unable to stream the song Feminine Urge.