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Friday, 17 July 2020

What is art? Quick, where's the bloody door!

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My ‘project’ is as interesting as ever — to me, at least — but it is lasting a lot longer than I anticipated. Certainly that has something t...
Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Meet me, the ‘hate criminal’ and ‘transphobic’ to boot. That I am not, never have and never shall be and loathe bigots is neither here nor there.

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As is the odd way of these things, I have — more or less — been accused of a ‘hate crime’. The situation is similar to when I posted a comme...
Saturday, 6 June 2020

‘Teflon Don will go on and on: How could Trump survive November’s election when he’s engulfed in riots, Covid meltdown and high unemployment?’ Well, here’s what one man thinks, and it’s worrying

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While in the US all the peaceful protest and demonstrations of the murder of George Floyd, the riots and looting by some, heavy-handed conta...
Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Woe is us, woe, woe (and for once I’m a little more serious)

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I’m not a born cassandra and tend to look on the bright side of things. I’m a ‘the glass is half-full’ guy. But for some years past, and ag...
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 10 Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck

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It would be dishonest of me to claim ‘I’m a Jeff Beck fan’ because I’ve only heard (checking his discography on Wikipedia) a lot less than h...
Monday, 11 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 9 Chimeradour by Jeff Lang

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I like to claim ‘I like all music’, but that’s not really true. I draw the line at schmaltzy shite, ‘show toons’ and some classical music. T...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 8 Amandala by Dave Fiuczynski

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I came across Dave Fiuczynski by chance but I’m bloody glad I did. For once this might be touted as an album which, if it didn’t exactly cha...
Saturday, 9 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 7 Purple Rain by Prince

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One morning, at about 7.30pm, at 45 Milner Road in Kings Heath, Birmingham, in the early 1980s I was woken by my clock radio to a song which...
Friday, 8 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 6 Innervisions by Stevie Wonder

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I’m sure like me everyone reading this can recount several instances in their life which they, for one reason or another, believe they will ...
Thursday, 7 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 5 Symphonies No 40 and No 41 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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With this entry of my ten albums, and I must admit this is a bit of a rule-breaker (if there are any rules): I don’t know what the album was...