Music
(TRANSPORTATION) TALES OF (MY) TWO CITIES
1) LONDON "If you live anywhere near Crystal Palace, you’ll know that getting a black taxi home from the centre of London is not easy. The only time you’re likely...
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June 29, 2005
STEP DOWN
A big up to everyone who came to the Step On One Off Friday night at The Royale; history will recall that it was a roaring success. We had people...
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June 27, 2005
WAY TO PROMOTE YOUR SOLO ALBUM, DUDE
Billy Corgan celebrates the release of his debut solo album The Future Embrace by taking out a full page ad in home-town paper the Chicago Tribune, announcing that he’d sooner...
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June 22, 2005
THIS IS WHY WE HATE THE VOICE
As any long-suffering reader knows, Village Voice music critics are paid NOT to offer their actual opinions on an album, only to pontificate in ever-longer roundabout sentences that rarely reach...
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June 22, 2005
FOG OVER THE CHANNEL: CONTINENT CUT OFF
Talking of The Nation’s Favourite (that’s with an ‘ou’ for once), the same day I stick Radio 1 on my computer desktop, it’s announced that the BBC’s flagship station will...
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June 22, 2005
SAL’S THE MAN
I was on Daddy Duty last night and took Campbell to see Madagascar. (Totally harmless fun. Though Chris Rock is about as subtle a voice-over actor as he is a...
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June 22, 2005
ON THE SUBJECT OF RELATIONSHIPS (AND BREAK-UPS)
This Sunday is my wedding anniversary. Hang on, OUR wedding anniversary. And yesterday, I was so busy explaining to my long-suffering wife why I have to spend it at Irving...
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June 22, 2005
ON THE SUBJECT OF JUNE 21st
…Then yesterday must have been the 20th Anniversary of The Longest Day, when U2 headlined Milton Keynes Bowl. Faith Brothers, whom I was managing at the time, were the opening...
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June 22, 2005
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