Monthly Archives: July 2005

Dear Boy: An Interview With Jean Battye
"As soon as we got there we realized it was exactly the sort of place that we tried to avoid. They weren’t even people that were going to be particularly... Read More July 20, 2005

Calling Radio London
Should anyone out there care, I'll be on the air with Robert Elms on Radio London on Wednesday July 20, somewhere round 1.15pm Greenwich Mean Time. ...
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July 19, 2005

Pop Quiz
I’ve re-arranged a typically random crop of musings and observations and quotes into a multiple choice quiz. Use the comments section below to offer your answers. Depending how many of...
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July 19, 2005

Quick Hitlist
…Here’s some of the songs I’ve been listening to of late, especially while sorting through boxes of old LPs and cassettes. As every home DJ knows, you can’t so much...
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July 18, 2005

Summer’s Stages
Would Dinosaur Jr. have reformed if The Pixies had not already done so? Possibly, but they surely would not have chosen for their comeback show a $40 ticket gig at...
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July 15, 2005

Friday Phun
Enough with the war-time postings. The Village Voice has gone all Brit-pop on us this week. First, this week’s full-page Voice “essay” greets us with that famous picture of Tony...
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July 15, 2005

Dumb Quote of the Day…
“The truth is that shoddy theology does not exist without a dodgy foreign policy.” Says who? Says Salma Yaqoob, the national vice-chair of Respect and chair of Birmingham Stop the...
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July 15, 2005

Northern Soul
“I can confirm that since that morning of Thursday July 7, you have not saved one single Muslim’s life in your phoney war for freedom. A war which targets innocent...
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July 15, 2005