Issue #317

‘I was recently listening to Skeleton Tree and realised all these years I’d misheard one of your lyrics. I always heard…’but the echo comes back EMPTY.’ This line ...’

Issue #316

‘My best friend recently said something that felt really spiteful to me. It was so unnecessary and mean and I feel just so wounded. I am furious at my friend. ...’

Issue #315

‘I love the Red Hand Files. However, a little bit of frivolity and trivia is always welcome among the deep and serious subjects. What I’m keen to know, therefore, ...’

Issue #314

‘Joy is hearing the French horn in your song ‘Joy’. This song resonates deeply with me after I lost my mother at age 11 and because my mother never heard her ...’

Issue #313

‘They say you should separate the art from the artist. I can’t do that. My childhood heroes have become monsters. Now I read that the song “I Am A ...’

Issue #312

‘Your Desert Island Discs programme had me glued to my radio. I was interested in your choice of Pinocchio as your chosen book. Have you read The Swallowed Man by ...’

Issue #311

‘I listened to your Desert Island disks this morning and just loved your stunning choices, especially ‘My Father’ by Nina Simone and ‘I Am a God’ by Kanye West. I ...’

Issue #310

‘We are some students in an elementary school, from 12 and 13 years. We have studied with our teacher about the death in your music. We’ve got some questions about your ...’

Issue #309

‘I hope you realise I’m asking as lord did this line on Wow O Wow from the new album give me a wtf moment, one that genuinely threw me. ...’

Issue #308

‘2025 is coming. The world seems to be in such a catastrophic state. Where is the hope? What is hope?’

Issue #307

‘How will you spend Christmas day? Do you like listening to Christmas songs?’

Issue #306

‘I used to play Into My Arms for my girlfriend. I came to your concert in Birmingham, but I had to leave early. It was far too emotional for me ...’

Issue #305

‘My dad is dying. It’s cancer.
I’m spending as much time with him as I can, but in the absolute terror of it all, I can’t ...’

Issue #304

‘Have you ever imagined that Bob Dylan would be attending your shows and writing nice tweets about them?’

Issue #303

‘I saw you walking around the cathedral in Antwerp with a baby and I wanted to say something but thought I might be intruding on your space. The show at ...’

Issue #302

‘What does it take to be free?’

Issue #301

‘How do you cope on tour?’

Issue #300

‘Where or how do you find joy?’

Issue #299

‘Nearly 300 Red Hand Files are in, and I feel you know us contributors a little. Admittedly, in a slightly abstract way, but I think you have a rough idea of ...’

Issue #298

‘First, massive respect, always.
Also, I wonder if you ever came across my poem, ‘Sometimes a Wild God’? I did wonder, with your new album (the poem gets about ...’

Issue #297

‘Are songs from God?’

Issue #296

‘I’ve read all your Red Hand Files. I’m a fan! But do you ever worry about being on ‘the wrong side of history’?’

Issue #295

‘I’m wondering if you have any thoughts about loneliness. I am middle-aged and richly blessed in life, with children, a husband and a good job that I enjoy. I ...’

Issue #294

‘I was delighted to see that Brompton Oratory is part of your set list for your tour. This song captured me for some reason. Twenty years ago, I used to ...’

Issue #293

‘I’m having a bit of trouble in my teen years… someone I hold dear very dear has gone.
She’s gone and I’m still here and she’...’

Issue #292

‘What would you say is the most gratifying thing about being an artist/musician?’

Issue #291

‘When you reach midlife and are made to truly pause, frozen in horror by a tidal wave of grief of lives ended, personal loss and our Earth relentlessly harmed….when ...’

Issue #290

‘How can you move forward with joy when you outgrow your parents, the people who nurtured and loved you, but now feel almost offended by your growth, as if it’...’

Issue #289

‘Listening to Frogs on the ol’ Spotify so spend that 0.001 pence wisely, but got thinking: I have no fucking idea what this song is about. I love it, but its ...’

Issue #288

‘What makes you happy?’