Sophie Sweatman

I was brought up in Surrey, lived in Crouch End for 20 years then moved to Falmouth in Cornwall in 2011 to do an MA in Professional Writing.

Since graduating in 2012 I have done a weekly show on SourceFM, Falmouth's local radio station, publicised events at the Fish Factory Arts Space and writing and distributing publicity materials for all music acts signed to Matchbox Recordings whose acts vary from Keenan Cahill and Napalm Death.

In 2009 I launched Freedom of the Fringe comedy night in Kentish Town, which has been in Time Out's Top Ten Open Mic Nights since 2011 and is now called the Freedom Fridge. This spawned TNT Comedy at the same venue and 2 Edinburgh gang shows in 2010. I booked acts for Fridays at the Thistle Hotel, Picadilly, for 7 months. In Falmouth I got publicity into the West Briton and Falmouth Packet each month for my comedy night at the Watersports Centre.

After I moved to North London in 1994, I worked for an arts cafe in Highgate Village and started promoting live musicians, which I carried on at the Laurel Tree in Camden in 1997, at various London venues including the Mean Fiddler up to 2004 at 333 Club in Shoreditch.

Following two months at the Camden New Journal writing theatre reviews and health features, I wrote weekly fringe theatre reviews for the London Newspaper Group.

I did a postgraduate in Journalism at the London College of Communication in 1997 and held down a steady job in editorial at a publishing company up to 2003, when i started writing freelance and working in advertising sales, before moving to Cornwall.