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It's been months since I've written here. But a performance of Joni Mitchell's music by Eska and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra was too good not to write about. Here's a review, of sorts.
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“The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne,” sang the Beach Boys, bitterly, and from experience by the sounds of it. In a song called Surf’s Up, from an…
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Do you remember True Detective? The one with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. The one set in the Deep South where Woody Harrelson and Matthew…
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January. On an otherwise featureless midweek day of the new year, it’s 3.30 in the morning and I’m awake and there’s a storm outside. The storm outside…
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This post is adapted from a short talk I gave to students enrolled on Kingston University’s Critical Studies & Creative Industries programme. Rina has…
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Maybe if the barrel organ had worked that night, things would be very different. But, on the very night the new song was first performed, in 1928, this…
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Strange, isn’t it, how we warm to the characters of Succession. What with the ostentatious wealth, the relentless competitive rudeness, the…
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It’s my birthday today. I am 45. That’s 45 revolutions around the sun. When I turned 44 I had a party - decks in the house, dancing, that sort of thing…
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