"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime" (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) "Logic is dull." (Alfred Hitchcock) "I remember all my life Raining down as cold as ice A shadow of a man A face through a window Crying [...]
Sunlight floods into the room. It bathes my face in golden glow. It should feel warm. I don't feel warm. I feel cold. As cold on the outside as I do on the inside. I'm wrapped in my duvet and I do mean wrapped. Like the meat in a frozen sausage roll...once alive and now [...]
YouTube is a wonderful and dangerous space. Hours and hours of learning available to everyone with an internet connection. A tool as revolutionary as the Gutenberg press. Instant access to lectures, presentations, debates and discussions, news and information from around the world and from across the decades. Astonishing. Mainly I use it for watching footage [...]
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." (Oscar Wilde) I don't know why I'm writing this. I'm not sure that this will make any sense...or have any value (what on this site does I hear you cry). I've moved on...or at least away. And yet...and yet...a piece of me, maybe an important piece of me, [...]
"Now That's What I Call Music..." reached its centenary this year. Nobody really cared. In the era of Spotify, Deezer, iTunes and YouTube the compilation album is largely redundant...I'm not sure that anyone other than sales reps and desperate middle-aged children on Father's Day morning actually buys them any longer. I say this, of course, [...]
I've been inside the famous Brixton Academy for less than three minutes before I meet Nick and Statto, legends (in their own ways), of the Britpop Revival Show on Phonic FM. Nick, of course, is the host of the show...spinning Britpop classic after Britpop classic every week while Statto is the Raymond Babbitt-esque Twitter star [...]
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