Violins, mandolins and deep flowing intakes of clear fresh air. Hem return to their roots and add something new to an ongoing American narrative. Forget the new Lambchop album. The future’s where you left it. The song, ’Lazy Eye’ draws attention to the hem of the dress of an old, possibly lost love: “There’s a…
Category: The Modern Age
Eribi Holdings, Eddie Lister and the Race to Rebuild Libya
Recent events in Ukraine have turned the spotlight once again on Putin’s influence in British Politics. At the time that Britain and the UN Security Council was preparing to engage in military action against Gaddafi’s forces in Libya in 2011, Boris Johnson, then London’s mayor, backed Putin’s rejection of the No Fly Zone. In 2017,…
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
The Wu Xing. I bet you’ve never heard of it right, but in Chinese astrology it describes the five phases that show how everything here on earth interacts and relates. How so, you ask? Well this is how so: you have five elements: wood, fire, earth metal, water. Wood feeds fire, fire creates earth, earth…
поддельные новости: The Monocled Mutineer and the Red Under the Bed documentary
As news emerges that actor Ricky Tomlinson and members of the so-called Shrewsbury 24 are to have their 1970s convictions reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, we look at the role played in that conviction by Woodrow Wyatt’s Red Under the Bed documentary. The Monocled Mutineer wasn’t the only occasion that the book’s author…
Monocled Mutineer – Mutiny at the BBC
Why did Bleasdale’s drama cause such a media storm? Why was the BBC Director Alasdair Milne removed? And what were Willie Whitelaw’s links to Toplis’ killer?
DJ Sharkey — ‘Unravelling The Beat Poetic’ Interview
He’s been compared to Beck, boasts the production credits of Beastie Boy producer Mario C and Midnite Vulture Mickey Petralia, is given mad love by Wyclef Jean, The Black Eyed Peas, Cannibal Ox and the Pharcyde and still you’re unlikely to have heard of him. That’s all about to change. Meet Sharkey. Sharkey is under…
Conservative Middle East Council – The Haftar Lobby: A Register of Interests
The Haftar Lobby In March 2017, the Conservative Middle East Council published a report entitled ‘Inside Libya: Chaos in the Mediterranean‘. The report pushed for urgent ‘engagement’ with Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, the self-appointed commander of the Libyan National Army who had spent the best part of 20 years semi-retired in Washington DC. The report was…
Aladdin Sane (30th Anniversary 2 Cd Collection) – David Bowie
In keeping with the 30th anniversary edition of the ‘Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ re-release earlier in the year, EMI dip their hands into their top-drawer material again and pull out another era defining classic. And with sleeve notes by David Buckley, previously unseen photos by Mick Rock, single sleeves and other memorabilia it…
The Garden of the Dead: The Cult of Nostalgia & Romantic Nationalism in Europe
Take a good look at this picture from The Daily Telegraph in 2015. This is Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party. By the way, Nigel doesn’t have a life outside of this picture. He doesn’t have family, he doesn’t have friends, he doesn’t come from anywhere, and if reports in the press are…
Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: the Death of George Martin
Fifth but by no means least … what a suitable ending. In some ways it seems entirely fitting that the death of Beatles producer, George Martin wasn’t accompanied by a burst of dramatic orchestration, a piccolo trumpet solo or a tumultuous crescendo of instruments followed by a dramatic final chord played on three different pianos….