The Motown Museum - Detroit, USA

15th August 2013, $10 (joined by Amanda Leat)

Come 'ere. 

I need to tell you something important... 

I love Motown.

I'm sure whatever music you're into's great, and good for you. Really. But Motown's ten times better and fifty times cooler and you hate yourself because you know this already.

Don't you?

Tate Britain - London, UK

23rd July 2013, Free

When you don't realise you've done a selfie

Since 2000, the name 'Tate' has generally come to refer to a gallery a little further down the Thames. Like Elvis circa 1964, Tate Britain has been superseded by a mop-topped upstart across the pond and been left a stuffy, out-dated relic, getting fat and starring in bad movies (RIP that metaphor). Upon the birth of Tate Modern, the rebadged Tate Britain has focused on British art through the ages, from the charred remains of a not quite so well dissolved monastery to some appalling 90s concept art. Much like UKIP: you don't have to be good to get in Tate, just British.

The National Media Museum - Bradford, UK

16th July 2013, Free (joined by Kieron Casey)

Hello you

For my maiden voyage into all this, I thought I'd take a trip down memory and Little Horton Lane to visit the place that saw me and many of my generation through the tedium of an adolescence in the provinces. However, this is not the overture for a nostalgic tongue-bath from yours truly. I just have to look at other teenage comforts such as Red Dwarf and The Deftones to see how vulnerable my younger days really were.