I am a copywriter with two decades' experience primarily in the charity and non-profit sector. I have worked with DM agencies in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada, including Pareto Fundraising, Donor Republic, Flat Earth Direct, Fundraising Direct, Changestar, Open, Red & Green, Blue Frog, Ask Direct, Pebble Beach - and directly with charities, large and small, too numerous to mention.

Regular contributor to The Wire, Jazzwise, Songlines and WeJazz magazines and to The Quietus website.Previous work published in The Guardian, The Independent, BBC Music Online, Signal To Noise, Plan B, Rock-A-Rolla and elsewhere.Nominated for 'Jazz Journalist of the Year' in the 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Programme notes for the London Jazz Festival, the Contemporary Music Network and the Barbican. Writer-in-residence at the Jerwood/PRS Foundation Take Five initiative (2007, 2008 & 2009).Sleeve notes for albums released by My Only Desire Records, Ubuntu Music and SLAM.Since October 2006, presenter/producer of The Mystery Lesson, a monthly show playing jazz and improvised music, currently at www.onejazz.net. From September 2020 to December 2022, presenter/producer of The Golden Road, a monthly show playing non-western music, at www.repeater-radio.com and www.slackcity.org.uk.Occasional studio guest/contributor to BBC Radio 3’s Jazz On 3 (2012 to 2016).Providing online articles and content for www.everythingjazz.com

Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation (Repeater, 2025)The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych 1965-1980 (Repeater, 2018)“… as a knowledgeable and thoughtful overview to a scene which is now more accessible than ever, this serves as a perfect introduction.” – The WireLost In The Vaults: Rare collectables and forgotten gems from the Jazzwise magazine archives (Eleusinian Press, 2019)"This is a fascinating and stimulating book...Highly recommended." - Sussex Jazz Magazine.

Bracken (Veer, 2021)Creation In Kerala (Ahimsa, 2020)Vertigo But The Eye Is Stoned (Hi Zero, 2019)These Changes (Slightly Off Kilter, 2019)From The Bottom Of The Tower (White Lodge, 2018)Notes For Colour (White Lodge, 2015)Osshole Accidents (White Lodge, 2012)

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHYTides - Tides (Minimal Resource Manipulation, 2023)Daniel Spicer / Chris Gregory – Jubilate Deo / Bird Flight (Monocreo, 2021)Daniel Spicer - Just Flames (Eyeless, 2021)Yoni Silver and Paul Watson / Daniel Spicer – Beartown Live Wreckage #1 (Beartown, 2020)Daniel Spicer – When You’re Gone We Miss You When You’re Here We Wish You’d Go Away (My Dance The Skull, 2020)In Threads – Orange Justice (Eyeless, 2020)Daniel Spicer & Paul Khimasia Morgan – Hazeblaze/Coastal Fumar (Slightly Off Kilter, 2019)Daniel Spicer & Paul Khimasia Morgan – Sepertae (Linear Obsessional, 2018)Konstrukt w/ Alan Wilkinson, Alexander Hawkins & Daniel Spicer – L.O.T.U.S (Omlott, 2017)West Hill Blast Quartet – Live at Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival 2015 (Foolproof, 2016)West Hill Blast Quartet – Live at Café Oto (Foolproof, 2015)Daniel Spicer / Thurston Moore / Dalachinsky / Kommissar Hjuler – Fluxus (Psych KG, 2015)Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut & Daniel Spicer – Window, Can, String & Sea (Beartown, 2014)Bolide – Soaks (Gaffer, 2013)Bolide – Perm Mutations (Slightly Off Kilter, 2013)Daniel Spicer – YLVMLVY (Slightly Off Kilter, 2012)Daniel Spicer – Voice Studies Vol. 10 (My Dance The Skull, 2012)Bolide – Flaw Games (Ultramarine, 2012)Daniel Spicer – Engruntled (Slightly Off Kilter, 2011)Bolide – The Mighty Hand (Sonic Oyster, 2010)Bolide – Vehicular Differences (Poot, 2009)Bolide – The Authority of Omar (Chocolate Monk, 2008)

Providing agency-quality charity creative solutions at a fraction of agency prices.

Founded Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival in 2014 and directed/curated three successful festivals in 2015, 2016 and 2018, presenting free-jazz and improv from the USA, Europe and UK

Provided highly effective and original Direct Marketing materials - including letters, leaflets, brochures, as well as newspaper, TV and radio advertisements - for a wide range of charities including The Samaritans, Concern, The Stroke Association and many more.

Writing telephone telephone fundraising scripts, face-to-face fundraising materials and all supporting communications for a wide range of non-profit clients including Amnesty International and Greenpeace.