Oscar Liddiard

A fortuitous Q1. The shareholders are thrilled.

Back in 2018, I took myself to Cardiff to go and see a band I really liked, but had never had the chance to watch live. After they played, I went up to the singer and told her that their set had made me cry (listen, I REALLY liked the band). For the next 7 years, I’d always make sure I went to watch them in town or at festivals, and if I was lucky, I’d get to have a brief merch table interaction with that brilliant smiley girl doing high kicks at the front of the stage. That felt really great. I had no idea that I was going to meet the love of my life that day back in 2018, but that’s exactly what happened. Fast forward to 2024, and the year has thrown me its fair share of curveballs - but falling head over heels for you was the biggest and best one which I never saw coming. The thing I’ve heard the most from my nearest and dearest is how happy I am, how much more myself I am, how great it is to see me so in love. To anyone who has said similar - she’s the one you have to thank. Looking back at photos from the last year, I can pinpoint the second you came into my life, because it’s the very same second colour literally reappears. In my wardrobe, behind my eyes, in every corner of my world. It’s like the lights have finally been switched on, and I can see how perfect and exciting life truly is - and I get to experience all of it by your side. That feels really great. Thank you for the greatest year of my life so far. Here’s to forever.

Hi everyone, hire me please! Starting the new year off in style, if said style was not having a guaranteed paycheck. I’ve been firing applications out like an overly caffeinated yeoman, but in the meantime wanted to alert the hive mind on the off chance any of my lovely friends are in need of a silly little guy for their projects this year. Design! Production! In person general help! I’ve heard of all of them, and my books are OPEN. If you have a free 0.5 seconds and doing so wouldn’t poison your personal brand, a share or heads up would go a really long way. Love and light one and all, happy 2026. xoxo

December: 12/25 on the calendar, 10/10 on the scoreboard. A beautiful end to a beautiful year - spent some quality time looking at a different sea, bothering my family, getting absolutely pelted with wind and/or rain and celebrating the single greatest year of my life. So far.

No-thing November. Firmly hibernated for the entire month and felt infinitely better for it. Saw a whole heap of pretty sunsets, racked up endless hours of BG3, narrowly avoided our fridge exploding, played my last show of 2025 and STOPPED. Life is beautiful, although I wish it was ever so slightly less windy/rainy.

October was the gift that kept on giving. And giving. And giving and giving. Lovely as it is to be given so much, at a certain point you feel like saying ‘thank you October for all the giving, but I do feel like I’ve been sufficiently given at this stage.’ Nevertheless, these last 31 days have been some of the biggest and most important of the year - I’ve moved cities to be with the love of my life, I’ve played some big beautiful belting shows with my best buds and all round had a certified hoot and holler. Can’t wait to sleep in November.

September was a big beautiful blink and you’ll miss it blur. Three weddings, two studio weekends, one hundred percent joy and zero actual downtime - I barely took any photos all month because I was too busy being #present and #grateful with my nearest and dearest. Life is beautiful, summer was a blast, I cannot wait for big jacket season

The expression ‘good egg’ gets thrown around an awful lot in this day and age - and today of all days, I think it’s important for us to acknowledge which of the eggs is actually the best. Kieran and I have been unknowingly going to the same shows and festivals for most of our adult lives until a mutual friend implored us to actually hang out two years ago. Since then, we’ve been pretty much inseparable. He’s firmly to blame for the best things to have ever happened to me, and I shall be spending the rest of my life thanking him and trying to pay him back, one bit at a time. The sheer joy and unstoppable positive energy this man brings with him wherever he goes should be bottled and weaponised. In all my years I have never met someone with such relentless positivity, unshakable devotion to his friends, and lack of hesitation to go above and beyond, 100% of the time. Here’s to a thousand more horrifying realisations that there’s no such thing as a unique experience, being made to feel ancient by our best friends and some glorious crisp denzels. Love, light, battlestar galactica, you beautiful egg.

August was ridiculous. Flat out knee slappingly, head shakingly, go for a long walk to try and make sense of it ridiculous. Played my first major festival, had countless hoots and hollers at my home away from home, marvelled at the beauty of nature, did a whole heap of arts and crafts, ACTUALLY switched off for a week away and laughed until my face hurt with the love of my life. My heart has never been more full, and my back has never been more knackered.

Boy, sure was a hot one, huh? July was, in a shade of green - mint. Turned 32, has the most indescribably perfect time at trees, played the biggest show of my life (so far), and got to spend lots of time cowering from the sun with my nearest and dearest. Lovely, lovely stuff.

June was mint, easily in my top 6 months of 2025 so far. Touched lots of grass, was punished by hay fever for touching aforementioned grass, basked in the presence of lots of small animals, acted like a twat in order to make my girl laugh, melted in rehearsal rooms and had a flippin swell time with my nearest and dearest.

Making May whilst the sun shines. Shows, citrus, selfies, stickers, sessions, shorthand, sunsets, sea and smiling unstoppably. Life continues to be beautiful.