You’ve got to become what you can.
I’d be failing in my daytime duty as a till-jockey if I didn’t let you all know that peerless proletarian Sunderland sensation Lauren Laverne has branched out into the book world. I don’t know what...
View ArticleNot Raving but Frowning.
Everybody asks your name, they say we’re all the same And it’s “nice one, geezer” – But that’s as far as the conversation went. Last weekend was notable for a mass rave held in the heart of London’s...
View ArticleLibraries Gave Us Power: notes on the Manic Street Preachers and class
So I liked Owen Hatherley’s piece on Pulp, and I knew reading the comments would spoil it all, but reader, I read them. The majority were bafflingly wet-blanket in nature, wildly and wilfully missing...
View ArticleThe Pits and the Pendulum
I’ve had coalmining on my mind recently. Contra last week’s Metro, I don’t think it’s accurate to say ‘the world looked on in despair’ at events at Gleision Colliery – in fact the story was predictably...
View ArticleLast night a DJ ruined my life: a Valentines Day playlist
My resolutely unromantic Valentines Day playlist this year consists of: – Robots in Disguise, ‘Chains’ – Einstürzende Neubauten, ‘Jet’M’ – The Bush Tetras, ‘Too Many Creeps’ – The Slits, ‘I Heard it...
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