https://lucyharbron.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Lucy HarbronenTue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://youtu.be/2ormJGc_AdQConsidering the changing game of journalism, the pivot to everywhere being video-first and where that leaves writers It's scary out there!Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://youtu.be/2ormJGc_AdQhttps://www.behindtheblinds.be/love/the-cool-girlIrma Vep was your first role, acting alongside huge names like Alicia Vikander, how was that? It was definitely surreal. I had major imposter syndrome for a while because I was like, ‘how can they trust me when they've never seen me act before?’ I was mind-boggled that this was even a possibility in my life. So even before I started filming, it was already crazy. But when we got to Paris and started filming and the reality set in, I settled into it and knew I was supposed to be there. I'm so luc...Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.behindtheblinds.be/love/the-cool-girlhttps://www.behindtheblinds.be/love/the-every-womanIn a Small Light you play Miep Gies – how did you find preparing for a historic character rather than a fictional one? It’s such an important part of history so you do feel a sense of responsibility. But I discovered my process is the same, whether it’s a real or a fictional person. Of course with a real person, there is more to draw from – there are so many movies about this part of history, and so many books; there's a plethora of material that I could have drawn. But the first thing I did was...Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.behindtheblinds.be/love/the-every-womanhttps://www.behindtheblinds.be/love/dark-and-lightThe last couple of months since Stranger Things was released have seemed crazy… It’s been a whirlwind. But also very refreshing because for months prior to the release, I was just sitting idly by waiting for something to happen. And then suddenly since the release, it's been totally nonstop. It was a real shift and the reaction to Chrissy and her storyline was totally unexpected.  Is it hard to prepare for a character with a short lifespan?  Well, I think becau...Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.behindtheblinds.be/love/dark-and-lighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=b8K8gQZ5Y8g&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnE8Xzkog2wLNfaEFT4TgNcxTMUGEaJzhAiP-DvjEatTr-P5GOGhVpx-XeXFs_aem_U4px2dBBVf7oCULmtoF-sgThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=b8K8gQZ5Y8g&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnE8Xzkog2wLNfaEFT4TgNcxTMUGEaJzhAiP-DvjEatTr-P5GOGhVpx-XeXFs_aem_U4px2dBBVf7oCULmtoF-sghttps://www.instagram.com/p/DQZjOapFQjS/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DQZjOapFQjS/https://www.instagram.com/p/DQXC7ZWjEmZ/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DQXC7ZWjEmZ/https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTvQl5-ifzQ/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTvQl5-ifzQ/https://www.instagram.com/p/DN0Y6gj3NQA/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DN0Y6gj3NQA/https://www.instagram.com/p/DQWXwNtErfB/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DQWXwNtErfB/https://www.instagram.com/p/DQMeaMZjJ5X/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DQMeaMZjJ5X/https://www.instagram.com/p/DLXSTClzrFe/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DLXSTClzrFe/https://www.instagram.com/p/DJtbnJdtHpG/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DJtbnJdtHpG/https://www.instagram.com/p/DJwDWeVP1jG/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.instagram.com/p/DJwDWeVP1jG/https://bylucyharbron.substack.com/p/cool-girl-spots-are-killing-the-vibeMy friend Zoey knows the best spots in London. She frequents Italian trattorias that somehow are always missed off the ‘best of’ guides, despite their incredible food, even better atmosphere and devoted crowd of regulars. You’ll go meet her at bustling pubs that have a ‘no phones’ sign on the wall, and she’ll somehow inspire the room to stick to it. A night out with her will be in an eclectic basement.My friend Zoey also only looks at Instagram.com, not the app. She doesn’t have TikTok. What she...Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://bylucyharbron.substack.com/p/cool-girl-spots-are-killing-the-vibehttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/truman-sinclair-knows-how-to-play-the-game-rightIt’s easy to get jaded in the music industry. The dropout rate across the industry is high for that reason. People in their 20s join major labels full of enthusiasm, believing they can make a difference, only to burn out and move on within a few years. Journalists end up stuck in stale conversations with artists worn down by media training and expectation, leaving nobody truly fulfilled. People begin with big dreams, only to be beaten down by the realities of the modern industry, eventually los...Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/truman-sinclair-knows-how-to-play-the-game-righthttps://bylucyharbron.substack.com/p/forget-ai-botox-is-killing-hollywood“What a weird question to ask on the best day of my life,” Cassie Howard says at her wedding to Nate Jacobs. Realising that her new husband is in serious, serious debt as their eternally fucked up relationship gets even more rocky and fucked up, Cassie turns to her concerned sister, her face is practically writhing.I’m purposefully saying Cassie here and not Sydney Sweeney, because Sweeney feels no where to be seen. Obviously, we are seeing her – this is her face, this is her acting, this is her...Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://bylucyharbron.substack.com/p/forget-ai-botox-is-killing-hollywoodhttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/dont-meet-your-heroes-unless-theyre-joan-jett/Joan Jett. Joan fucking Jett. Is there any one name as powerfully associated with rock? Even saying it captures the feeling. It’s punchy, it’s fun, it’s fiery, it’s literally everything rock and roll is, and everything Jett herself is. Still is. In this day and age, though, rock fans have had to become accustomed to being let down. So often, the icons who were once beacons for rebellion and liberation, who built a legacy off outspoken activism, have fallen into nothing but apathy. Case in point...Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/dont-meet-your-heroes-unless-theyre-joan-jett/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/a-bands-marketing-is-none-of-our-business-geese-psyops-and-fans-misguided-focus/As soon as The Beatles were signed, Freda Kelly, an employee of Brian Epstein, assumed the job of running the band’s official fan club. Today, most major fan accounts, especially the ones with ‘HQ’ at the end of their username, are run the same way – in-house, paid for. Record labels used to send models to radio stations to drop off new releases. The Rolling Stones had practically invented the concept of merch. Paul McCartney announced his debut by sliding a self-written questionnaire to the pr...Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/a-bands-marketing-is-none-of-our-business-geese-psyops-and-fans-misguided-focus/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/iain-pollard-and-jane-forsyth-perfected-the-humanist-music-documentary-with-broken-englishThe process of making Broken English with Marianne Faithfull was nothing short of “divinity”, as Jane Pollard put it, coming together in a miraculous and perfect way, but in that very specific miraculous and perfect way of being a complete accident, by chance. Specifically, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are fascinated by musicians and capturing their portraits, such that you’d be forgiven for thinking that their office was a record label, as music history books are everywhere, punk memorabilia...Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/iain-pollard-and-jane-forsyth-perfected-the-humanist-music-documentary-with-broken-englishhttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/imogen-and-the-knife-on-the-power-of-last-hurrah-artistry/Editor’s Note: For 2026, Far Out didn’t just want to recommend ones to watch; we wanted to stick with them. Selecting five artists set for greatness, spotlighting Pem, ELLiS-D, Jeanie and the White Boys, Camille Schmidt and Imogen and the Knife, our Class of 2026 spans genres and countries to back the best of the rising stars. In a series of repeat conversations pairing each act with a writer, we’ll be checking in with them throughout the year, tracking the highs, lows, trials and triumphs of th...Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/imogen-and-the-knife-on-the-power-of-last-hurrah-artistry/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-byrne-night-joke-went-too-far/As the depths of January set in, often called the most depressing time of the year, one bright spot has consistently lifted the mood for London music fans. David Byrne’s Night is returning, and it has become something to look forward to. What began as a Talking Heads cover night featuring some of London’s most exciting acts has now levelled up, turning tribute performances into one of the most in-demand events in the city. The second that Scottish musician Lola Stephen learned that Talking Head...Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-byrne-night-joke-went-too-far/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/marty-supreme-inner-voice-timothee-chalamet-ambition/It’s only after leaving the cinema, having seen Marty Supreme, that everything from the last year makes sense. For months, or even since February 2025, when Timothée Chalamet got on stage and drew a clear and outright path for greatness, perhaps we’ve been seeing Marty Mauser all along. “I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I wanna be one of the greats,” Chalamet said with his whole chest at the 2025 SAG awards. Having just beaten out season-sweeper Adrien Brody for a win no one real...Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/marty-supreme-inner-voice-timothee-chalamet-ambition/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/alex-russell-on-why-lurker-is-really-a-film-about-friendship/How far would you go is the big question Alex Russell’s debut feature, the psychological thriller, Lurker, asks of its audience. On the surface, the film is about obsession and success, opening with Matthew Morning, played by Théodore Pellerin, working in a retail job when musician Oliver, played by Saltburn breakout Archie Madekwe, walks into his shop. Matthew essentially pulls the move all fandoms on the internet have been obsessed with forever: the ‘your name’s Oliver’, pretending that he do...Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/alex-russell-on-why-lurker-is-really-a-film-about-friendship/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/corrupt-promoters-exploiting-grass-roots-music-sceneBack in July, a video came up on my algorithm. On stage stood Lola Wild, a London-based artist, and she was going off on the corrupt nature of promotion companies preying on up-and-comers. “He basically gets emerging artists and exploits them,” she’s saying into the mic, putting on blast the very people who booked her for the gig. In the comments, over 800 people, including new artists you know and love, were going off too – Wild’s story isn’t a shocking one at all, it seems that every single o...Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/corrupt-promoters-exploiting-grass-roots-music-scenehttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/a-love-letter-to-the-old-blue-last-swim-deep-reminisceIn my eyes, talking to Swim Deep about The Old Blue Last has the same energy as Martin Scorsese trying to interview Bob Dylan for the Rolling Thunder Revue documentary, where the artist is blurry-eyed eyed trying to rack his brain for long-lost memories of good times that are those to the good times themselves. On the other hand, it’s like talking to historians with a specialism in the place. “I’ve watched Swim Deep play here,” keys player James Balmont says, “before I was in the band”, which g...Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/a-love-letter-to-the-old-blue-last-swim-deep-reminiscehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2FWTYxaqQkTeachers at school like to tell us that the walls are blue because the author meant something by that. Baxter Dury has spent eight albums pretending that’s true. On his ninth, he decided to stop. Enlisting a pop mega producer and surrendering to a new way of working, Allbarone was built from a desire to think less, work faster and up the tempo. Bored of treading the same artistic ground and bored of his same artistic process - Dury wanted a change. And so, in a beer garden in Hammersmith, we try to provide that. There are typically roles to play here; the journalist trying to sound smart, the artist nodding and agreeing and trying to sound even smarter. A pint deep, that falters. Instead, the conversation mirrors the record it’s about - one that thinks less and simply flows as Dury sits down with us to talk meaning and lack thereof.Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2FWTYxaqQkhttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/work-fast-think-less-baxter-dury-ups-the-tempo-on-allbaroneTeachers at school like to tell us that the walls are blue because the author meant something by that. Baxter Dury has spent eight albums pretending that’s true. On his ninth, he decided to stop. “You know, when we talk about songwriting and stuff, and they go, well, this and that, and what does it mean? I go, I don’t fucking know,” Dury admits at the very end of our conversation, “I sort of grab at stuff, and some of it’s real and some of it’s not. I mash it all up, and as long as no one gets...Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/work-fast-think-less-baxter-dury-ups-the-tempo-on-allbaronehttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/sabrina-carpenter-and-the-dichotomy-of-pops-depthA dichotomy exists in pop music that too many people still can’t figure out. Simultaneously, the best pop music makers and their fans understand that at once, it’s not that deep and it is. “Hating pop music doesn’t make you deep” reads the infamous t-shirt worn by Dua Lipa and Addison Rae. That rings true, and it isn’t negated, when Sabrina Carpenter admits that her new album is “just fun”. In recent years, that battle that surrounds the understanding of pop has been played out clearest in the...Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/sabrina-carpenter-and-the-dichotomy-of-pops-depthhttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-community-completed-the-collaboration-between-olafur-arnalds-and-the-late-talosI’m sitting behind Ólafur Arnalds at his studio, in Reykjavik, Iceland, watching him self-soothe; one hand holding up his head, the other fidgeting with his clothing. A gentle introduction is playing with a chorus of light violins and electronic details distorting it, and I watch the composer take a deep breath in, steadying himself, as his friend, Eoin French, or Talos, the late Irish artist, begins to sing. It is beautiful, it is heartbreaking, it is the most poignant moment of my career so fa...Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-community-completed-the-collaboration-between-olafur-arnalds-and-the-late-talos