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Living the American Dream
It's 7pm on a December evening in Manhattan. My phone rings, it's the publicist for Mariah Carey. She's performing her Christmas show at New York's Beacon theatre. I'm told we have 20 minutes to get...
View ArticleWhy Mars the God of War Should Step Down and Move Aside for Bowie - The God...
We all have our unique quirks and traits that make us purely alien and individual. Most of us keep those things to ourselves, keep them sacred or even hide them. Sometimes these things explode out of...
View Article'Undateables' - I Am Sorry, I Got You Wrong
The first time I watched The Undateables I was disappointed. The title alone made my eyes roll. I thought come on media, let's not portray people with a learning disability in a negative way again... I...
View ArticleMan, Actor, Legend... Alan Rickman
"The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from and what might be possible." -...
View ArticleAlan Rickman - Perfectly Severus Snape
"Always" spoke Severus Snape to Dumbledore. Snape's love for Lily Potter would be just that. Forever. Always. 14th January 2016, Alan Rickman died. Cancer. Of which type I am unsure. It matters not to...
View ArticleThe Carpenters and Me
This week marks a strange milestone. Born 2 March 1950, Karen Carpenter (who died aged 32) has now been dead longer than she'd lived. Strange too, my relationship with the Carpenters' music. In the...
View ArticleData Analysis: How the Academy's Race Problem Is Getting Worse
For the second year in a row, there are will be no black, Asian or minority ethnic actors that win an Oscar - because the 20-strong list of nominees in 2016 is entirely white. It was revealed in Los...
View ArticleBowie - A Hero for More Than Just One Day
Five days after the awful news of his death, David Bowie will be back dominating the Official Charts again later today. The nation will have paid tribute to its musical hero. We are all familiar with...
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Reclaiming Pink
Can we talk about the pink thing for a moment? It's not so much the pinkness of it that bothers me. It's more that as the mother of a three-year-old girl, I'm finding the pink glittery tsunami a little...
View ArticleI Started a Petition to Get David Bowie on the £20 Note
I'm a very ordinary David Bowie fan. I own only a handful of his albums, never managed to see him live, and didn't even realise which part of London he was from until the recent coverage in the wake of...
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He Blew Our Minds: A David Bowie Tribute
On Sunday night we lost one of the greatest musicians of all time, David Bowie. Millions of fans have mourned the legendary singer's death and the tributes have been flooding in from across the globe....
View ArticleA Thank You Letter to David Bowie From a Palliative Care Doctor
Dear David, Oh no, don't say it's true - whilst realisation of your death was sinking in during those grey, cold January days of 2016, many of us went on with our day jobs. At the beginning of that...
View ArticleTarandang - Live Music's End Times
I'm pretty drunk right now in this Chiang Mai nightclub called Tarandang Mahabon and I have to tell you about the live music set-up here, it has so freaked me out. This place is big; Shepherds Bush...
View ArticleIn the Next 10 Years, Lots of Rock Stars Will Die - We're Going to Have to...
Yesterday in the pub I made the mistake of idly flicking through a copy of the Sunday Times - a newspaper I don't usually read unless I'm at my parents' for the weekend - and soon found myself reading...
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David Bowie - Pop Icon, Film Star... And Spiritual Seeker
Bowie's Wembley prayer on Youtube (Steampunk grunge media player ©Glowimages) "Lord, Lord, my prayer flies, Like a word on a wing." You could be forgiven for thinking this is a sentence from a Sunday...
View ArticleCan There Be Any Defence of EDM?
I'm so overwhelmed by music these days. I used to spend hours lurking in music forums, find myself hours deep in a Youtube hole or so far into Soundcloud it felt like what I can only imagine the Mines...
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Bowie's Week-Long NY Wake Gets Holy Holy
Tony Visconti (second from right) leads Holy Holy at The Paramount, Huntington, NY, Jan. 17. Photos: Larry Jaffee A week removed from the shocking news that David Bowie had died, Holy Holy's...
View ArticleThe River Cottage Drinking Game
My obsession with River Cottage and, indeed it's creator, Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall, is fast approaching it's tenth year. Embarrassing though it may be to admit to spending the majority of my youth...
View ArticleA Book to Read, Share and Keep: Letting Go by Emma Woolf
Each and every one of us could likely do with letting go of something. Whether it's a past hurt, a toxic habit or a reoccurring vision for the future that will never happen. In order for us to live the...
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Watched 'The Revenant'? It's Really Really Violent Isn't It, And That's OK
I think it's fair to say that I'm not a human that delights in seeing violence. That's not to say I shy away from it when it's presented to me, but I'm not going to be howling with maniacal laughter...
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