A newsletter by Nono Gigsta

"This tour was so expensive. These tours always are."

Financial insights from last year’s over sea and land North American tour, offering a snapshot of its material reality. Includes a *shocked gasp of horror* SPREADSHEET!

Australia is next

… or least that’s the plan! [version française plus bas] I am aiming to arrive in Australia around this time next year, as I’ve been invited to play a series of gigs in Spring 2027. My agent and I are working on a tentative itinerary that would take me

“… home will always be a moment …”

On awards, generosity and other people’s places

“… hard to know at what depth these echoes will reverberate and die away.”

6 gigs and 6 songs of 2025 and my yearly bow to the promoters keeping it cosy

"... and so you spend your whole lives, and you think that is being, life, reality!"

A silent, meditation and music retreat near Berlin from December 16th til 21st

"I think we have to be at peace with that.”

I wrote a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Electronic Music. In the essay, entitled "Here’s where you’ll find me this month": Music Press and the Myth of Hypermobility as a Metric for Success, I drew on the concept of imperial modes of living.

“… the vastness of the ocean looked so different from above …”

Drexcyian mythology: storms, currents, dwellers

« … in every place I have loved. »

Love letters on overground and on the ground frequencies + An unexpected port of call

“… like a journey, a life requires that you learn to let go of the plan when the actuality departs from it.”

May 2025 - travel diaries - Mid-Atlantic Ridge, NYC, Portland, L.A., San Diego, Las Vegas, Denver, Detroit

Surviving a hurricane at sea [+ version française]

Sail We Must: On storms, sailing and the art of DJing

“Only a madman—or a really first-rate criminal would attempt to cross the whole Europe by bus and train..."

12 songs and 12 places of 2024 - part II

“… like all friendships, one cannot fully describe to anyone else.”

12 songs and 12 places of 2024 - part I