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Thursday, 15 January 2015

How do we decide if we like a film?

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How do we decide if we like a film? It's both the easiest and the hardest question to answer. As you'll have probably guessed, I...
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Sunday, 21 December 2014

2014: Another year in music

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This has been my favourite year for music in a long time, if not ever. Good and very good albums have been released regularly throughout the...
Friday, 7 November 2014

Where you grew up is probably awesome. Is it as awesome as Ealing?

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I grew up in a nondescript terraced house in a nondescript little road in a nondescript part of a relatively nondescript borough. That's...
Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Boardwalk Empire - (a non-musical post)

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"In the final end, he won the war, after losing every battle ..." That certainly does not apply to Boardwalk Empire's main c...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

So, you ask, what should have won the Mercury Prize each year?

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Strangely, it's a slightly different question from What was the Best British Album of each year since 1992, and it's certainly a bit...
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Friday, 31 October 2014

The Mercury 2014

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I don't know what compels me to keep writing about the Mercury Prize each year, as if it actually matters anymore than any other list of...
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Saturday, 11 October 2014

What is that makes the all-star version of 'God Only Knows' quite so awful?

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So that's the question and that's the tone for what I'm going to write. I'll try to keep anger and blame out of it, I...
Monday, 6 October 2014

Screen Stars

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I'd like to keep this blog going regularly with a little less structure, but I've found down the years that I need a structure and a...
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Monday, 18 August 2014

2014: The Next Great Album

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It's rather worrying when the person in charge of the nation's music thinks this ... http://www.nme.com/news/radio-1/78327 My nat...
Friday, 18 July 2014

1996: Wilco: Being There

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So, this is the last, alphabetically, of the series of 51 albums from 1963 to 2013. I didn't plan a big bang, but it's nice to e...
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