Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Tour
My Top 5 Gigs of 2009
Why Top 5? Why not a Top 10? As a lapsed Discordian I was going to knock out a rather elaborate, mind-bending explanation based on the ‘Law of Fives’ (which, according to Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus! Trilogy, claims that everything in the universe can be connected to the number five if you [...]
Tom Waits, Le Grand Rex Paris, 24th July 2008: Gig Reconstruction
I’ll eventually get around to writing a proper review of what will almost inevitably end up as My Favourite Gig of 2008. Yes, I know it’s only August and I shouldn’t be writing the rest of my year off already, but this was a Tom Waits concert, Goddamn it! It’d take something pretty spectacular to [...]
The Gilded Palace of Cinema
I’ve never been a design nut, architecture addict or buildingophile, but when I first saw Le Grand Rex in Paris I was reduced to the state of a lovesick puppy. It was years’ ago (don’t ask how many), during my first trip to Paris. I was staying at a far-from-swanky hotel just a few far-from-swanky [...]
The Holiday is Over
Well, I’m back. Over the last week and a half I’ve driven from Birmingham to Kent, from Kent to Sussex and then back to Kent again. I’ve taken the Eurostar to and from Paris and, today, have driven from Kent back to Birmingham. At the Latitude Festival I’ve seen performances by (amongst others) Grinderman, Breeders, [...]
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