The Observer, Sunday 14 September 2008
The extraordinary story of a unique label devoted to releasing music by Iraq war veterans. By Carl Wilkinson. Photographs by Jamie-James Medina.
A gleaming black-and-white Fender Stratocaster is an unusual item to find in a soldier’s kit bag, but for Sergeant John Dobbins it is one of his most treasured possessions. [...]

30 October 2007
I’ve spent the past eight months editing a series of books which are published each month with the Observer newspaper and last month I took a day off to shoot a video for the band Mr Hudson & The Library for their song ‘Upon The Heath’ from their debut album A Tale of [...]

Observer Music Monthly, 12 November 2006
Carl Wilkinson salutes the return of the hip hop kingpin whose friendship with Chris Martin hasn’t dulled his spittin’ skills
Hov is back! ‘Just when you thought the world would fall apart/Take off the blazer, loosen up the tie, step inside the booth, Superman is alive!’ he raps on the [...]