"What is the worst film you have ever seen?" If someone were to ask me for the best film I have ever seen it would take me a long time to find a definitive answer. It could be Talebi's masterpiece "Willow and Wind" with its high drama wrung from the most mundane of incidents...it could [...]
Here in dear old Blighty, home of the brash, outrageous and “free”, we have a radio show where people of note (scientists, poets, politicians, celebrities, singers etc etc etc) discuss their lives, loves and achievements with the host while, at the same time, selecting 8 pieces of music that they would take with them [...]
I had just turned twenty-one. I was a student. I was convinced that what had started as a couple of great albums by blur and Suede was now a full blown cultural phenomenom on a par with the Mods in the sixties. I was entering the second year of my degree course at the “University” [...]
I won't be attending Glastonbury this year. Or any year. It's the outdoors. I think I might be allergic to...fresh air. Or it might be the crowds. Other people are certainly allergic to me. But from the safety of my sitting room and with enough Haribo to fuel a dozen five year olds I will [...]
A Twitter chum shared a picture of the Reading 95 line-up today. For no particular reason I thought it would be fun to put together a Britpop festival from the bands who appeared over the three days. I've decided to put together three days with five acts appearing on each day...because I'm a middle-aged man [...]
Suede decided to reveal the title for their fourth studio album one letter at a time...one week apart. H. E. "It's going to be "Heroin" isn't it?" squealed expectant fans and journalists. Those naughty Suede boys. Playing fast and loose with the rumours about Brett's drug use at this time. Then Matt Osman told the [...]
Let's get ready to rumble. Or something. On the most recent episode of the Mild Mannered Army Podcast, Nick Amies and I discussed the merits of the third part of Blur's "Life" trilogy; "The Great Escape". This followed on from our previous discussion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the *greatest album of the [...]
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