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The Dirty Bristow ELO-ke
On Saturday night I’ll be going to this: It’s an ELO-themed Karaoke fundraiser for Dirty Bristow, the magazine with no ads, no rules and no objection to publishing stuff by me (God love ‘em). A ticket for the ELO-ke comes with a free copy of Issue 1, which features something I wrote about my dad [...]
Still Boldly Going Strong
William Alan Shatner turned 80 earlier this week. Shatner is – and most likely always will be – one of my favourite screen icons, and I say that without so much as a trace element of irony. Seriously: he’s up there with Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Orson Welles in my personal pantheon and all-time [...]
The Canyon Star
I recently heard from my old pal Jamie, one of those old pals of mine I haven’t heard from for too long. Jamie’s an accomplished singer/songwriter – by my reckoning a damn fine one, too – and a veteran of the London music scene. It’s good to hear, then, that he’s recording again – under [...]
Home taping did not kill music, after all..
I’ve been listening to Frank Zappa’s music on and off since I was in my teens. Without giving too much away, that’s a long fucking time. Zappa’s music is an acquired taste so you may not like it, but he was one of rock music’s smartest and most erudite voices, which is one of the reasons [...]
Doctor Duff-Duff
It was Children In Need night tonight. It featured a trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special. I hope you gave generously. Here’s something from Children in Need 1993:
Four King Hell
This evening I will be going to this: It’s being organised by Dirty Bristow – the magazine with no ads, no rules and no objections to publishing stuff by me – and promises to be: …the most difficult pub quiz you’ve even attended — and every penny raised goes towards printing and other costs [...]
Happy Birthday, Twin Peaks
Yesterday’s Sunday Mercury (for the benefit of non-Brummies, that’s the local Sunday paper) had a feature on the classic TV series Twin Peaks by Roz Laws which contained some random thoughts from a certain madman with a blog. Here are some additional thoughts: Believe it or not, David Lynch’s seminal TV series Twin Peaks has [...]
Fair Exchange
This is Fair Exchange, a rather marvellous and eerie short film by Lee O’Connell and Andrew Spencer: Good, isn’t it? Lee is a pal and one of my comedy co-conspirators on next month’s Rock ‘n’ Relativity Holiday Conspiracy show. He’ll be playing the role of Dom, a misanthropic conspiracy theorist who narrates the show. I [...]
Wanna T-Shirt?
Dedicated to resurrecting the magazine as a fetish object, giving creative people the room to let their minds go. No ads. No rules. That’s the mission statement of Dirty Bristow, a new magazine that my friends Danny Smith and Jon Bounds will soon be launching in the general direction of an unsuspecting world near you. [...]
Bob Dylan at Hop Farm
In 1970, the year I was born, Rolling Stone magazine published a review by learned rock journalist Greil Marcus of what was then Bob Dylan’s latest album, Self-Portrait. The review’s high impact opening sentence has since earned itself a place in the annals of popular culture for its succinct precision and evocative use of language. [...]
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