Secret secrets are no fun Secret secrets hurt someone (The Office, Season 3 - Episode 14) I'm going to tell you a secret. Well, it's not really a secret. It's something that everyone knows but, a bit like the lack of clothes on the Emperor, most people are too afraid to say it. Are [...]
This is the tale of a Northern soul. From humdrum streets where the rain fell hard. Looking to find his way in the world. His heart is his compass. Lost, lonesome, gladsome, humourous and, sometimes, a little blue. A crocodile cryer, happy to look down. A wholly humble heart. Folk music. Pop music. Rock but [...]
At the start of the Powell and Pressburger film "A Matter of Life and Death" an RAF pilot finds himself hurtling towards his death following a direct hit at the hands of those blasted Luftwaffe boys. Smoke billows around the cockpit, his second in command lies dead behind him, his parachute is shot to ribbons...his [...]
A lot of people really love "Common People" by Pulp. It is, for them, a reminder of their youth. It has become the Britpop national anthem. It evokes memories of the sunny, hopeful, optimistic, nineties. It is the soundtrack to heady nights on the dancefloor of the indie disco. It marked the moment when the [...]
It seems ridiculous to me. I refuse to accept it. A quarter of a century. I won't have it. It can't be. Ah, but it is. The passing of time with all of its sickening crimes. Perhaps the most sickening of all is the fact that Marijne from Salad has refused to age. It's a [...]
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered (Isaiah 23:16, King James Version) The sky is bright and clear. The air is cold. It is spring on the West coast of Scotland. I should be in a lecture hall, [...]
Brothers and sisters. Listen to the words of a poet. Hear the sounds of art made live. Marvel as your innermost fears, hopes and desires are reflected back at you from five strangers. The Murder Capital are back with a suite of three recordings from their live session with Annie Mac at BBC's Maida Vale. [...]
Am I Cursed or am I Blessed? In his 2014 book “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion” philosopher Sam Harris makes a compelling case for restoring spirituality to its etymological roots and removing it from the realm of religious thinking and the supernatural. In a blog post before the publication of the book [...]
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." (W.C Fields) Keep it real. 4-Real. Mean it man. The thing is this, very often when people hail the authenticity, the sincerity and the "realness" of a band or musician the band or musician are, in fact, dull. Really dull. Go and listen to [...]
The righteous. The right on. The right...by which I mean, of course, correct. All would have it that M*******y is now irredeemable. Worthy only of reproach and reprimand. They may be right. It's the music what matters. And here he is again for the third time in as many years. Following on from "Low In [...]
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