20th March 2016 Hailed as the “grandfather of modern dance music”, a “maverick, genius outsider” and “one of the most important people of 20th century music”, the sense of hagiographical terrain is abundantly clear in the earliest moments of Volker… Continue Reading
3rd October 2015 The day after thanksgiving, and while a number of Americans were preoccupied with the consumerist frenzy of Black Friday, it was the requirement of two rather venial purchases that brought two vehicles together at a gas… Continue Reading
25th August 2015 Though perhaps best known for her directing of 1992 box office smash ‘Wayne’s World’, and it’s less commercially successful sequel, Penelope Spheeris true legacy as a filmmaker is her 1981 documentary ‘The Decline of Western Civilization’… Continue Reading
9th March 2015 Ahead of what promises to be another closely fought, and probably inconclusive election this May, Tariq Ali questions what it would take for the left to stay true to it’s political convictions rather than capitulating to fear. Since… Continue Reading
7th February 2015 Hello to my five regular readers. Joe, I see you’re still doing well on Fantasty Football. Sarah, I hope that rash has cleared up. Maria, fingers crossed that he doesn’t actually decide to dump you but I… Continue Reading
17th January 2015 This week I thought I’d adapt my approach to The Weekend Binge. Instead of picking a series you can delve into whilst curling up in a duvet and consuming your bodyweight in Doritos, I am going to… Continue Reading
Have you ever said something you instantly wanted to take back? You do wonder if political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, ever wonders just that, when he thinks back to his generation defining postulation that the fall of Communism in 1989 marked… Continue Reading
With it being the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, 2014 has seen the release of an overwhelming multitude of books about the Great War; in fact director of Bristol Festival Ideas Andrew Kelly, as he sits down… Continue Reading