• Covelli’s Take: Why We Should All Long For The Return Of The High Street.

    There was a time when Saturdays meant something. Not the modern version where you wake up, reach for your phone, scroll through 47 notifications you don’t care about and then somehow end up watching a bloke in America restore a rusty lawnmower. I mean an actual Saturday. Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s,…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: What Has the BBC Ever Done for Me? Brave Question…

    I’ll start this off by saying something I didn’t expect to say when I first saw that BBC advert… There was a time when the BBC was great. Genuinely brilliant. Back when we had, what, four channels? And that was your lot. No scrolling, no streaming, no “I’ll just stick something else on.” You watched…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: YouTube Got My Kids Hooked… Now I Am Too.

    I used to think YouTube was absolute nonsense. Not in a “this isn’t for me” kind of way, but more in a “what on earth is this?” kind of way. The kids would sit there for hours watching what I could only describe as… nothing. Unboxing videos. Grown adults—or sometimes other kids—opening boxes. Just… opening…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Want Gig Tickets? Then Sell a Kidney.

    I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere along the line, going to a gig quietly morphed from “fancy it?” to “better remortgage the house and alert your next of kin.” Honestly, getting tickets these days feels less like buying a night out and more like trying to secure a place on a Mars mission.…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Nobody Actually Knows What They’re Doing (And That’s Fine).

    There comes a point in life where you assume everyone else has got it all figured out. You know the people I mean. The ones who seem to glide through life with a absolute plan. Career sorted. Family sorted. Holidays booked six months in advance. Matching furniture. Probably even own a plant that’s still alive.…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli