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Five Things From the Mary Rose That'll Make You Go 'Oooh'!
Being a warship, the Mary Rose carried a lot of objects that were, shall we say, unpleasant. As well as the various ship-to-ship weapons, there were pikes, daggers and swords, longbows and handguns for...
View ArticleIs Glastonbury Worth the Ticket Buying Hassle?
Come Sunday morning, the nation will be shaken awake by the collective groans of thousands of music lovers as they drag themselves prematurely from their beds hoping to get tickets to Glastonbury Music...
View ArticleCelebrities Have Turned Feminism Into Just Another Brand
Annie Lennox has branded Beyoncé as 'feminist lite'. Speaking to PrideSource, she wasn't disparaging of Beyoncé as an artist but described her feminist stance, as 'tokenistic' and I have to say, I...
View ArticleLed Zeppelin's Reissued Albums Are a Wonderful Tribute to John Bonham's...
The first time I listened to Led Zeppelin I was sat in a car park in my mother's car. I remember the moment like it was yesterday. It wasn't the epiphany I'd told it would be. It was, well,...
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'Transparent': A Reason to Get Amazon Prime
It doesn't really matter how exciting and novel the premise of a TV show is - if the viewers don't like the characters, they aren't going to stick around to watch them. Transparent is ostensibly a...
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When an Artist Rids the Ego, Helpful Art is Born: Matthew Sanderson - The...
It's rare to find an artist as dedicated, as flexible, as polite, as Matt Sanderson. A sculptor quite content for the next generation to rip up his artwork and start again; but such is the humble...
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Life In The Arts Lane - Week 90 - The Paris Biennale to Beziers
Paris wakes up the art world's Autumn season every two years. 2014 is one of those years. On the 9th of September there is a huge and fancy dinner for the VIPs, yours truly not invited once again. And...
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Making a Killing... The Old Way
Around the beginning of the year I was, as one should be at the beginning of all showbusiness anecdotes, sat in a pub in Soho, talking about two films with two chaps after a few beers. However, these...
View ArticleAl Pacino Is Wrong - Mobile Is the Future for Film and TV
Hollywood star Al Pacino is not a big fan of watching films on mobile devices. On receiving a Fellowship at the BFI, he said: "If you put any movie on a big screen nowadays, I'll love it. I mean, who...
View Article'Great British Bake Off 2014' Episode Blog - Week Nine
It's semi-final time, with just three challenges standing between Richard, Chetna, Luis and Nancy, and a place in the final. However, as well as three challenges, there are also only three places...
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Lords of Kiasmos
I chat to one half of the Scandinavian electronic duo Classical music and electronic music have had a close relationship since the early days of synthesisers. German experimentalists such as Kraftwerk...
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The Versatile Hugh Cornwell: 'Always Give People What You Want for Yourself'
Of his new novel Arnold Drive, Hugh Cornwell says "it's like Being There meets Forrest Gump meets Father Ted. It's a Dickensian tale, a black comedy." The novel tells the story of a Wiltshire vicar...
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Wretch32 Is Back - Talking Shakespeare, Statesmanship and Swagger
Tottenham breeds creativity - Soul singers Adele, Lemar and Keisha White hail from the area. But its grimy roots really are showcased by its hip-hop acts like Wretch32 and Chip. According to Wretch, he...
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Music Video Ratings - A New Era of Creative Freedom
I recently remarked on how David Cameron's video rating scheme might have unintended consequences in that it will probably create a whole new category of music videos that feature graphic sex or...
View ArticleFear and the Foul Mouthed Saxophone Player
In an interview with the Daily Mail back in 2011, Kate Bush confessed that she would be terrified to go back on stage. She denied that she suffers from stage fright but said that she has the odd dream...
View ArticleCensorship Is a Subjective Thing
James Evans, a 31-year-old American living in Greenville, Kentucky decided that he would post some lyrics from a song by the band Exodus on his Facebook wall. The song is called Class Dismissed (A Hate...
View ArticleWhat's Your Comfort Food?
After a year in the writing and a lifetime in the making, Jamie's Comfort Food has arrived! The book is all about food that puts a smile on your face - whether it's hours in the kitchen making the...
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Something to Smile About, One Act of Kindness at a Time
Apparently World Smile Day (Friday, 3 October) was established by the designer of the original smiley face logo in order to devote one day each year to "smiles and kind acts" throughout the world,...
View ArticleTwenty-Five Years Later, The Heat Is Still On for 'Miss Saigon'
Like any red-blooded 23-year-old male, musical theatre is one of my biggest loves, yet until last week I had managed to go my entire life without catching one of Cameron Mackintosh's most beloved...
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Infectious Channel 4 Rom-Com 'Scrotal Recall' Has the Balls to Tackle Chlamydia
What would you think if I suddenly told you that you have Chlamydia? What would be the first thing to run through your mind? I'm hoping it's not: "What the hell is THAT?!' I'm guessing it'd be more...
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