About

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Mark Higgins is a freelance radio person who also writes about music, when time permits. He lives in vibrant south London. As well as working at radio stations including BBC 6 Music, Radio 4 and Resonance FM, he also reports on concerts and events for BBC 6 Music News.

He quite likes Casio watches and football, and celebrates good fortune with two cups of tea. Being freelance, he replies promptly to emails and can often be found on Twitter.

Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about music. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music videos, plus classic tracks and any other ace stuff he can think of.

Single of the Week

Stars and Sons – Futureproof (video)

Twitter

  • Inordinately excited that thirty seconds of a SebastiAn remix is going to be played on 6 Music tonight. Yes this was my doing. 3 mins ago
  • Singing the "ooh ooh" chorus to White Sky by Vampire Weekend when you wake up makes you sound like you're being attacked. Morning! 5 hrs ago
  • Creative portraits of sleeping babies. That's almost adorable! http://bit.ly/bvQt3F (via @kleptonin) 21 hrs ago
  • Interviewed Joe Summers and Holly Miranda earlier and they were both lovely. That's investigative reporting at it's finest. 1 day ago
  • My hometown, ladies and gents. RT @log93: Genuine sign in pub window in Romsey. http://yfrog.com/n0of8j 1 day ago
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