John Doran

After all these years and near-death experiences, I still can't have an honest conversation with my father.

I traveled home to see him, and all I could talk about was my belt.

Playing a game of chess against my son, I was transported back 20 years, to a house where I'd go to score cocaine and sometimes smoke crack.

Serious trauma does funny stuff to your brain.

After getting hit by a car, it didn't occur to me that not getting an MRI was a mistake.

I'd like my money a whole lot more if it had a picture of one of these four heroes on it.

Spiders are shit houses.

A semi-naked man's guide to dealing with estate toughs.

An experiment in which a wedding DJ doesn't play shit music.

Champagne sipped out a half-pint glass and that inimitable laugh: The Quietus co-founder looks back on interviewing The Fall's late frontman.

There's a new wave of underground musicians, sound artists, producers and bands creating immersive worlds for their audiences to participate in.

The LCD Soundsystem frontman talks fatherhood, brawls and his obsession with British music.