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?’

Issue #287

‘Please give my best to Susie. I saw that the doors to The Vampire’s Wife are closed. Please let her know that some guy in San Diego is walking ...’

Issue #286

‘They say never meet your heroes. I met you in a café when I was travelling in London in the early nineties, and you were pretty terrifying but unexpectedly kind ...’

Issue #285

‘God and I have always been very tight; even in hard times when I’ve been furious at God, God now feels absent.
Very heavy things have happened throughout ...’

Issue #284

‘I am a musician who has been booked to play The Great Escape festival, which, as you may have heard, a number of artists are boycotting due to the sponsorship ...’

Issue #283

‘My wife and I are expecting a baby boy next week. All the tests are normal but I seem to swing from terror to euphoria and back again by the ...’

Issue #282

‘50 QUESTIONS No. 3

I used to really like RHF now I really, REALLY like reading it since the Yes/No/Go Fuck Yourself answers appeared. Love it! How do ...’