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Wire And Punk
1 April 2009 – 8:18 pm
“Wire were always at odds with the rest of the late 70s punks. In today’s extract from Wilson Neate’s 33 1/3 book on Pink Flag, we find out why”The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | On Wire And Punk: An Extract From The 33 1/3 Book On Pink Flag
The17
18 March 2009 – 5:12 pm
I’ve just had a email inviting me to be in The17 for a “performance” in April (St George’s Day). I’m stupidly excited.
What made me weird
18 February 2009 – 2:36 pm
I know I’m weird, most people are but it takes a bit of self awareness and a sort of forthright bravery to admit it. Inspired by this blog post, here’s five things that made me weird:
Monty Python — or the realisation that humour didn’t need to be dumb at least. It’s probably the ‘Marxism Today‘ [...]
Half Map Half Biscuit
18 February 2009 – 10:27 am
A map of everywhere mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Genuis psychogeography.
Glasvegas
4 February 2009 – 11:36 pm
Have the look of the band of 2009 – as imagined in a British film from the early nineties. They’re various old punk scenesters playing the future Jesus and Mary chain. The set is straight from Jude Law’s forgotten dystopian master-work ‘Shopping’ – desolate monolithic council flats rumble bass and flash neon.
They’ve only got one [...]
Momus on Matt McGinn
16 January 2009 – 10:44 am
Scottish songwriter and aesthete Momus on Matt McGinn — “communist, atheist, republican, and perhaps Scotland’s most interesting satirical songwriter”
MJ Hibbett – The Advent Calendar Of FACT
5 December 2008 – 7:19 pm
YouTube – The Advent Calendar Of FACT
Orwell and his chickens
5 November 2008 – 10:39 am
There was a great plan this year to publish George Orwell’s diaries, 50 years after the event, as a blog. We don’t learn a lot about the inner thoughts of the great man, but we do know just how well his chickens were getting on:
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