There was a lot of great new music in 2019. There was a lot of great new music from familiar faces in 2019. But I am kicking off my review of the best albums of the year with a compilation of old music, Steve Lamacq's "Lost Alternatives" was a treasure trove of old favourites, lost [...]
Rojo - Benjamin Naishtat, Argentina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKdTPuCgqkU A dark, but at times darkly comic, disturbing and beautiful film that deals with many ugly things; the brutality of fascist dictatorship, violence, power, dishonesty and shame to name just a few. Naishtat's film is a furious exploration of things that many of us would rather be left unexplored. [...]
And now the end is near...or something. As 2019 draws to a close and we wait, with fevered anticipation, for the dawning of the twenties here are the top five gigs of the year as determined by little old me. Geneva, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh The return of Geneva has been a wonderful thing this [...]
"Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing." (Francis Picabia, 1879-1953) "Thought is made in the mouth" (Tristan Tzara, 1896-1963) Dadaism is, at the most basic level, a celebration of the absurd, a means by which an [...]
"I have an idea for a novel." I say to anyone who will listen. Once the laughter stops, once the look of incredulity has faded, once the awkward silence has lifted and once their own pitch for a best-seller has been delivered I am left feeling...awkward, unsure, disillusioned and full of doubt. No. More awkward. [...]
In 1993 I bought "Elvis Sex Change" by a band called Cornershop because I had read a report in the NME about them burning photographs of Morrissey in protest at whatever racist comment he had made that week. At that point I bought everything Morrissey released and I also bought anything, by anyone, who was [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZYW_HTu2g Yes mate, this is more like it. I love this. It sounds exactly like Oasis. That's all I want from an artist, for them to continue to churn out exactly the same music in exactly the same way...forever. Because I certainly don't want to be exposed to new ideas and I don't want the [...]
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