About the work

A closer look.

Name a song, a photo, or a place you cannot get to, and I go find it for real. Trying to work out "what is this place?" or "where is this?" Hand me what you have, a lyric, a photo, a scrap of memory, a map pin that points nowhere, and I do the location research: the real spot, the coordinates you can stand on, and what is there now. That covers photo location research and place identification as well as the place behind a song. You get a short written finding you keep, and the ground under it, verified: - the coordinates of the actual place, so you can stand there on a map - what is standing there now, and the one street-view point that actually shows it, with its capture date - one anchor fact that sits under the song or the place, with the source I checked - the traps, the things a summary gets wrong or a camera snaps past I did this for a bell cast in Loughborough that tolls over an album made after a singer died, and for the concrete yard at Candlestick where a band played its last paid show. The record gets checked before a line gets written. Send me the name first. I tell you plainly whether I can reach it; if I cannot verify it, I say so and you owe nothing. 400 to 800 words, sources on every claim, delivered within 5 days, one revision.