Adrian Lobb
Adrian Lobb
Adrian has written for The Big Issue since 2012, as a freelance and now as Senior Arts Correspondent, having made his debut with an exclusive Benedict Cumberbatch cover story. It has not, he insists, been all downhill ever since. He specialises in writing about television and the cultural / social importance of the arts, as well as music, film, homelessness, politics and much more. He has interviewed all the actors, many of the directors, some of the musicians and quite a few of the politicians. He was lucky enough to spend a week with Mark Hamill back in 2016 as the Star Wars legend interviewed Ray and Dave Davies from The Kinks for The Big Issue, joined Two-Tone heroes The Specials as they revisited the site of the video shoot for Ghost Town, dropped an entire cup of tea all over Ralph Fiennes during an interview, quizzed Billie Jean King about tennis and politics, talked Brexit with Danny Dyer and has spoken to every Doctor Who lead actor since the show's return in 2005. He has been a journalist since 2000 and among many others has written for the Guardian, Four Four Two, TV Times, the Quietus, the Mirror and TV Choice. He is also a keen runner, having completed four marathons (so far), and is a trustee of The Running Charity, which works through mentoring and fitness training with young people experiencing homelessness.
Being Heumann's Rob Delaney: 'Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand'
Rob Delaney as Senator George Miller in Being Heumann
Interview

Being Heumann's Rob Delaney: 'Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand'

Actor Ashley Walters: 'There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London'
Ashley Walters
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Ashley Walters: 'There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London'

Being Heumann: 'Our world looks different because of what these protesters did'
Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann in Being Heumann
Disability activism

Being Heumann: 'Our world looks different because of what these protesters did'

'I went to A&E with a migraine. It was a rare brain tumour. Sometimes I feel it’s not fair'
Cal Petrie (left) with his twin brother Brodie during his time in hospital
Brain tumour research

'I went to A&E with a migraine. It was a rare brain tumour. Sometimes I feel it’s not fair'

'What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office'
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk
Letter To My Younger Self

'What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office'

‘We are locking up too many women’: Why the RSC's Julius Caesar is back behind bars
The cast of the new Julius Caesar.
Theatre

‘We are locking up too many women’: Why the RSC's Julius Caesar is back behind bars

This City Is Ours star James Nelson-Joyce: 'Just to be linked with James Bond is great'
Interview

This City Is Ours star James Nelson-Joyce: 'Just to be linked with James Bond is great'

Chase & Status: 'We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave'
Chase & Status
Letter to Our Younger Selves

Chase & Status: 'We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave'

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 
Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Hoetjes in Tenzing
Film

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: 'Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system'
Theatre

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: 'Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system'

The Uprising director Paul Greengrass: 'A world so sharply divided is going to be angry'
Andrew Garfield’s Ploughman leads the way in The Uprising
Film

The Uprising director Paul Greengrass: 'A world so sharply divided is going to be angry'

Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard: 'I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people'
Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard
Music

Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard: 'I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people'