And So I Watch You From Afar + Lost From Atlas + A Genuine Freakshow, Fibbers, York, 28/09/09 It was a veritable delight to see that the band that I saw supporting Clutch a few months back were playing a venue less than ten minutes walk from my house. York has far too few metal [...]
Morning all, I’m afraid I am feeling a little worse for wear today, so you will have to accept my apologies if this is a bit meandering. Last night Ellen and I consumed a little too much of the wine and the spirit whilst enjoying two masterpieces by the recently departed king of chain smoking [...]
This week has been pretty busy, hence the lack of posts. Apologies. Firstly, we had a visit from my parents on Monday for a few days, which was nice. On Monday I played host properly for the first time ever for them, doing the cooking thing and everything. I made lemon and honey chicken with [...]
Cross Blogination is a project I’m doing with Diary Of A Ledger, whereby every fortnight one of us will recommend to the other one of our all time favourite albums, which we will then both write a review for, one from a fanboy perspective, the other from a neutral standpoint. This is the second review in [...]
Two years ago Sean Penn’s excellent ‘Into the Wild’ charted the life of Christopher McCandless, the famed Alexander Supertramp, who ditched what he saw as a fruitless existence fulifilling his parents ambitions and dropped off the map entirely. Ending up in Alaska, he finally achieved his dream of total isolation, but due to his own naivete [...]
Currently the biggest news in the whole wide world is that a talented and yet horrendously bland rapper did something to upset a teenage girl who happens to be the world’s worst lyricist on a TV show. No, seriously. If you go to CNN right now, this story takes up 2 of their top 10 [...]
For anyone who missed yesterday’s announcement, Cross Blogination is a project I’m doing with Diary Of A Ledger, whereby every fortnight one of us will recommend to the other one of our all time favourite albums, which we will then both write a review for, one from a fanboy perspective, the other from a neutral [...]
In all of the coverage of the death of Patrick Swayze, the focus has been on his hugely successful romantic lead roles, which for millions of young girls seemed to define the blossoming allure of the male form. But for me, he also defined an early example of what masculinity was in two completely different [...]
In order to liven things up around here, and through the marvel of Twitter, I have hooked up (not like that) with the ever-excellent Gray from Diary Of A Ledger for a new and exciting feature that we have decided to call Cross Blogination. The idea behind this is to (drive readership) do a music [...]
A few years back, I actually came pretty close to a career in journalism. I was hired by a small company in Leeds to be first a writer for, then editor of a publication called the Asian Express. Not being Asian myself I had a few misgivings, but a job is a job, and this [...]
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