Last week was unrelenting, so much so that didn’t end until Wednesday. In addition to my usual duties - none of which you would care for me to enumerate - I had to take part in seven plays in six days. This is the very reason that I gave up GSCE Drama; that and the momentary misstep that I should probably train to become a doctor ( Read more... )

Down in the cellar in the Boho zone
I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well
Just another hard-time band
With Negro affectations1.I was a hopeful in rooms like this ( Read more... )

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“Kenny Clarke, veteran modernist who still out-rhythms, out-solos, and out-guesses all comers in the percussion field is the pivotal point around which this album revolves . . . or, perhaps Swings, is a better word. As a great jazz musician, he is also able to recognize potential greatness in other musicians. After all, his part in laying the ( Read more... )

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"Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me. Most of my heroes ain't appeared on no stamp."
Chuck D., Fight the Power.


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On the day that the latest Radiohead record, The King of Limbs, was released, I also had, palmed into my hand, the newest album from The Vichy Government. This was in a London side-street, just off the Coliseum, during one of Parsifal’s many intervals. It was the singer himself, Mr. Jamie Manners, who made the exchange and, with less warning and ( Read more... )

Several years ago (as many as four), I received a copy of The Golden Pot in the post. There was no why nor how about it, no letter of introduction or explanation. It had simply arrived at my door in a brown jiffy bag, with my name and address on the front, in a script I did not recognise. I believe it took five days for me to notice the ‘& Other ( Read more... )

The young people that mostly comprise Tales Of The…, the Nirish genre-fiction blog collective, were roped into contributing to the recent Belfast One Minute Film Festival by someone. I believe it was me, as I don’t have a camera ( Read more... )

This evening, I will speak with Mr. Stuart Bailie at his usual time for receiving guests. Our topic for two-hours is, reflexively, the pop collaboration, which will, no doubt, tail off towards the end, as all of my two-hour conversation tend to ( Read more... )