Issue #301

‘How do you cope on tour?’

Issue #300

‘Where or how do you find joy?’

Issue #299

‘Nearly 300 Red Hand Files are in, and I feel you know us contributors a little. Admittedly, in a slightly abstract way, but I think you have a rough idea of ...’

Issue #298

‘First, massive respect, always.
Also, I wonder if you ever came across my poem, ‘Sometimes a Wild God’? I did wonder, with your new album (the poem gets about ...’

Issue #297

‘Are songs from God?’

Issue #296

‘I’ve read all your Red Hand Files. I’m a fan! But do you ever worry about being on ‘the wrong side of history’?’

Issue #295

‘I’m wondering if you have any thoughts about loneliness. I am middle-aged and richly blessed in life, with children, a husband and a good job that I enjoy. I ...’

Issue #294

‘I was delighted to see that Brompton Oratory is part of your set list for your tour. This song captured me for some reason. Twenty years ago, I used to ...’

Issue #293

‘I’m having a bit of trouble in my teen years… someone I hold dear very dear has gone.
She’s gone and I’m still here and she’...’

Issue #292

‘What would you say is the most gratifying thing about being an artist/musician?’

Issue #291

‘When you reach midlife and are made to truly pause, frozen in horror by a tidal wave of grief of lives ended, personal loss and our Earth relentlessly harmed….when ...’

Issue #290

‘How can you move forward with joy when you outgrow your parents, the people who nurtured and loved you, but now feel almost offended by your growth, as if it’...’

Issue #289

‘Listening to Frogs on the ol’ Spotify so spend that 0.001 pence wisely, but got thinking: I have no fucking idea what this song is about. I love it, but its ...’

Issue #288

‘What makes you happy?’

Issue #287

‘Please give my best to Susie. I saw that the doors to The Vampire’s Wife are closed. Please let her know that some guy in San Diego is walking ...’

Issue #286

‘They say never meet your heroes. I met you in a café when I was travelling in London in the early nineties, and you were pretty terrifying but unexpectedly kind ...’

Issue #285

‘God and I have always been very tight; even in hard times when I’ve been furious at God, God now feels absent.
Very heavy things have happened throughout ...’

Issue #284

‘I am a musician who has been booked to play The Great Escape festival, which, as you may have heard, a number of artists are boycotting due to the sponsorship ...’

Issue #283

‘My wife and I are expecting a baby boy next week. All the tests are normal but I seem to swing from terror to euphoria and back again by the ...’

Issue #282

‘50 QUESTIONS No. 3

I used to really like RHF now I really, REALLY like reading it since the Yes/No/Go Fuck Yourself answers appeared. Love it! How do ...’

Issue #281

‘I’m from the UK but studying art in Antwerp. What is your favourite Belgian painting?’

Issue #280

‘I am finding your religious turn and proselytising difficult. How do you reconcile your faith with the church’s devastating history of sexism, homophobia, paedophilia etc. It’s not good ...’

Issue #279

‘I’m in my kitchen on Magnetic Island making fish wontons with Wild God on repeat. I love the song and the line that catches my attention each time is ‘...’

Issue #278

‘How’s it going lately?’

Issue #277

‘Wild God is fully thrilling. Would you please tell us about it?’

Issue #276

‘Why are you so convinced God is a He?’

Issue #275

‘I appreciate the fact that you acknowledged those of us that work in jobs that are so necessary that nobody really ever thinks about it (Issue #274). I worked in the ...’

Issue #274

‘My muses have left me and I have lost all motivation to create as a film and music maker. Have you ever felt alien to yourself and your identity as ...’

Issue #273

‘50 QUESTIONS No. 2

Why are you such a massive wanker?’

Issue #272

‘I’ve recently been hurt by a now ex-partner who acted in a way that completely altered how I viewed him, myself, and the last year of love we’ve ...’