Skip To Main Content
Alex Driscoll on Muck Rack

Alex Driscoll

Verified
Bristol, London
As seen in: Bristol Post, SouthWestBusiness, MSN UK, The Daily Mirror, Yahoo News UK, Daily Express, Daily Star (UK), South Wales Echo, Wales Online, Western Mail, Manchester Evening News, Birmingham Mail and
Covers:  Music, film, tv, books, lifestyle, travel
Reporter for @BristolLive. Contact me with any stories on: alex.driscoll@reachplc.com All views and opinions are my own.

Get in touch with Alex

Contact Alex, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Alex Driscoll’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Music, Travel and Lifestyle journalist with Editor experience currently based in London. Educational background is a degree in English Language & Linguistics from University of Essex with year abroad at Western Sydney University.

Alex Driscoll’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
Miranda Lambert Orchestrates an Aural Road Trip of America on Less Personal Yet Acutely Palpable ...

Miranda Lambert Orchestrates an Aural Road Trip of America on Less Personal Yet Acutely Palpable ...

While Lambert fairly frequently gets flack for not having quite the vocal range of her friend and country hea…

View article →
Florence + The Machine's Dynamic 'Dance Fever' Revels and Radiates in Its Humanity | Album Review

Florence + The Machine's Dynamic 'Dance Fever' Revels and Radiates in Its Humanity | Album Review

Dance Fever is a wordy beast, and discusses at length Welch's comprehension of her career, always finding the…

View article →
Mitski live in London: A career-spanning set for the reigning monarch of sad indie

Mitski live in London: A career-spanning set for the reigning monarch of sad indie

I have rarely seen a crowd react so intensely at the approach of a support act, but the hysteria should be as…

View article →
Let's Eat Grandma Embrace Artistic Growth and New Lyrical Depths on 'Two Ribbons' | Album Review

Let's Eat Grandma Embrace Artistic Growth and New Lyrical Depths on 'Two Ribbons' | Album Review

The pair, once inseparable, built a career like no other on the strength of their bond. "If you've got somebo…

View article →
Jack White Brings the Noise on 'Fear of the Dawn' | Album Review

Jack White Brings the Noise on 'Fear of the Dawn' | Album Review

Usually a fervent collaborator, White recorded this project isolated in the studio, writing every song, and p…

View article →
NEW MUSIC WE LOVE: Florence + The Machine's "My Love"

NEW MUSIC WE LOVE: Florence + The Machine's "My Love"

... On "My Love," she flaunts around petrified bodies in a luxury ballroom to a radio-ready beat and her sign…

View article →

Articles

Police update as bomb squad called to North Bristol

|
By Alex Driscoll Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
More details have emerged after the bomb squad was called yesterday (September 8) to North Bristol, with a device being exploded in a popular open space. Police have today (September 9) said that a "suspected historic ordnance" was found while work was being carried out at an area of North Bristol. It was then transported to Clifton Downs where it was detonated. The ordnance was found at 10.41am yesterday (Tuesday, September 8 in Tormarton Crescent, Henbury, while work was being carried out.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Court finds comparison site misled users on life insurance

|
By Alex Driscoll Verified
| ifa Magazine Australia Verified
This comes not long after insurance comparison sites were seemingly spared from the government’s proposed changes to lead generation laws. According to ASIC, the Court found “Choosi made representations to consumers that conveyed it compared products from a range of funeral and life insurers”. However, since July 2019, Choosi has only compared funeral insurance policies issued by Hannover.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Top 20% of firms serving more clients per adviser: CFS

|
By Alex Driscoll Verified
| ifa Magazine Australia Verified
Findings from CFS’s 10x program, which partners with advisers to “help them identify opportunities to improve performance, drive growth and better meet evolving client needs”, the top 20 per cent of advice firms serve an average of approximately 190 clients per adviser, compared to a national average of 136. This has not prevented quality service, according to CFS, with clients of the top 20 per cent more likely to contribute voluntarily to super.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,318 licensed articles (4,052 Total)

Interview

See all →

Have you ever used a typewriter?

As a child, after my Mum took all the ink out

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

#susanalbumparty

Who do you wish followed you?

It would be cool if Madonna cared what I thought

Awards

Student Media Awards

2015 - Outstanding commitment to Student Media (University of Essex)