Morrissey is releasing a new album – sometime in March 2006, ‘Ringleader of the Tormentors’ will hit our shelves…anyone who has read my blog for long will know about my love hate relationship with Morrissey. I used to hate his music, and then he released ‘You are the Quarry’ and now I love his music. Simple [...]

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I was really pleased to see the return of the Dragons Den this week – on BBC2’s suitably smart ‘reality’ show, where would be businessmen and women attempt to pitch their business ideas to a team of investors. They’ve replaced the yo-sushi dude with Theo Paphitis, who has some serious business turn round acumen (Rymans, [...]

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Uri Geller does web design…I can just see the sales pitch now - “If you concentrate hard on this picture of a ten pound note…one of us will become a little richer”

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Lets get the obvious stuff out of the way - Revolver was slated by most of the critics…and I can see some of the criticism, the plot is very confusing and some of the dialogue is tough to listen to…loads of ‘inner voices’, but I really think the good stuff in the movie far outweighs [...]

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Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor : Theres no doubt about it, a new Madonna album certainly creates a stir, perfectly timed for the holiday season, perfectly timed for a ‘keynote’ appearance on the MTV Europe Awards (where she was pretty damn good) and perfectly timed for an all out assault on the media. Its [...]

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Kate Bush - Aerial : almost every review I’ve read about this album concentrates on the 12 year absence, or the slightly odd Rolf Harris vocals and collaboration, although its a whole lot more than that. Aerial is a truly magnificent piece of work - spanning two discs, it breathes fresh life into the semi-iconic [...]

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The closest to a claim to fame - my famous relative.

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…got round to finishing my other site - found mattr is now live, a website that indulges my fascination of old paper ephemera, vintage postcards and fragments of peoples lives that were captured on paper - please check the site out - and let me know what you think.

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Mattafix - Signs of a Struggle : I caught this group on Jools Holland last Friday, and rushed out to get a copy of this debut release - from the opening bars of the bluesy, lovers rock style Gangster Blues, with bass from Sly of Sly and Robbie fame - it is clear they have [...]

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Ilya - Dreaming Loud : I picked up this album, thinking it was the same Ilya that made They Died for Beauty in 2004 (which I absolutely loved) - but there was no ethereal chillout music on this one…just 14 amazing tracks that prove that trance is nowhere near as dead as people keep saying. [...]

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