Category: Musings

Happy 15th Birthday, Homeland (Or How Brody Turned My Life Upside Down)

Prologue

At a recent dinner party, we played a game where everyone had to talk about three things they thought changed their lives. I had two moments from my early life: one being the Live Aid concert back in July 1985 (I was 13!) that got me thrilled that the whole world, all of us, were watching it together, and the other was a political assassination of a journalist in Turkey in January 1992 (I was 20!) that taught me that a state can get rid of its citizens who insist on looking for the truth. And the third moment I mentioned was Homeland. Because I was a regular academic attending to my own thing until a certain “pesky Brit” disguised as an American POW showed up and turned everything upside down! Homeland made me a Damian Lewis fan for life and I launched a blog in his name almost a decade ago. Go, figure!

Homeland, the show that started it all, premiered on Showtime on October 2, 2011, exactly fifteen years ago today. Continue reading “Happy 15th Birthday, Homeland (Or How Brody Turned My Life Upside Down)”

Damian Lewis’ Song of the Week: Traffic Jam

“Sweet thoughts on a shitty day.” — Damian Lewis

Welcome to another Song of the Week!

If you have missed any of our earlier deep dives—or would simply like to revisit them—you can find all our previous Song of the Week posts here.

Today, we are turning to “Traffic Jam”: my favorite song on Sweet Chaos and one I have been waiting to explore properly. And now we have another wonderful reason to talk about it: Damian has released the official video, directed by Sir Ramble and featuring Damian, Petra and one rather beautiful vintage Mercedes.

So, buckle up. It is time to get stuck in Traffic Jam!

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The Sweet Chaos Giveaway: And the Winners are…

The moment has finally arrived! We have drawn the four lucky winners of our Sweet Chaos giveaway, each of whom will receive a vinyl album signed by Damian Lewis.

The response to the giveaway was wonderful. We received entries from across the United States and many other parts of the world. We loved reading which Sweet Chaos song each of you would play first—and seeing just how far Damian’s music and our two sites reach.

We wanted the draw to be as transparent as possible, so we did it the old-fashioned way: with folded slips of paper and a transparent bowl! Continue reading “The Sweet Chaos Giveaway: And the Winners are…”

Damian Lewis’ Song of the Week: No Man’s Land (formerly Love Bomb)

“It is my most paranoid song: love as an act of aggression.” – Damian Lewis
Damian playing “No Man’s Land” at Cyprus Avenue in Cork, Ireland, October 15, 2025

Hello! It is Damian Lewis’ Song of the Week time again! This week, we are doing a deep dive into “No Man’s Land”—a song I first fell in love with under a very different name: “Love Bomb.”

I first heard it in Stroud during the second leg of Damian’s 2024 UK tour, and I was hooked before I could understand all the words. In fact, that happened often with Damian’s new songs. We heard them live long before we had official recordings or lyrics, and I am not always the most reliable person when it comes to figuring out lyrics from a concert video! But the sound of “Love Bomb” got me immediately. It was new wave-y. It transported me straight back to MY decade—the 1980s. It gave me goosebumps. Continue reading “Damian Lewis’ Song of the Week: No Man’s Land (formerly Love Bomb)”

Two Years Before Album Two ‘Sweet Chaos’: My Backstage Interview with Damian Lewis

We’re twinning with our vests

Two years ago, during the second leg of the Mission Creep UK tour, I had the chance to sit down with Damian Lewis for a conversation about his music.

We spoke backstage at Epic Studios in Norwich after the gig, with a glass of the band’s signature “D Lew” drink in hand. It was the first time I had been able to arrange a proper interview in advance — a real sit-down conversation instead of the quick chats we had managed in the past between rehearsals, interviews, and sound checks. Continue reading “Two Years Before Album Two ‘Sweet Chaos’: My Backstage Interview with Damian Lewis”