Hi there, first post - snatched on a brief moment in my lunch hour. I’m Alan (as the URL suggests) and am currently an SEO copywriter. As if filling 45 hours a week with writing weren’t enough, I have taken to doing some freelance reviewing for two websites: Allgigs and Acegamez. I intend to aggregate it over this blog, with a little more personality than I feel able to in the reviews themselves.

Not that I feel over edited, you understand - these are my self imposed editorial restraints. Indeed, thus far, my editors have been a picture of ‘laissez faire’ restraint, barring one review where a surprising number of exclamation marks slipped their way into my prose. I didn’t mind too much, but as a good friend of mine pointed out, it did make me ‘come over all Timmy Mallet’, which, as mental images go, is nothing short of ghastly.

Timmy Mallet: Zany.

Anyway, this ‘hello world’ is rapidly in danger of overshadowing my lunch hour, and the BBC news website doesn’t read itself, so I shall draw this opening missive to a close. Thanks for reading.