Dundee-doo-da-day.

If you told me I never had to go to Dundee again I would take the chalice, drink deeply, praise the lord god almighty and deliver myself into his embrace. I’d probably kiss the Pope’s ring as well. If you told me that I could live my life again and never have to go to […]

News? Worthy?

One post in January. One limp, diabetic post and that’s all I have to give account of myself in the last 31 days. You know things are getting rough when you have to float a piece of writing on something as perilously fragile as Nick Knowles’ career. He’s the entertainment equivalent of Theresa May, a creature […]

For those in the Knowles.

It’s been a little while but I feel the time has come to usher myself out of an ideas cul-de-sac of my own making and give something a go. I did something about Blue Monday the other day (Monday, actually) but I’m afraid it didn’t pass quality control, so here I go again. Like all […]

Episode 2.

Forgive the delay, I have lots to catch up on. I haven’t taken many notes so what this turns out to be will certainly be no more than a thin tissue of half recalled memories, gradually backed up with endless photographs, almost all of which you shall never see and all of which you’ll be […]

Half the world away. Episode 1.

Australia is very much like Hull: you have to really want to go there to go there because its not really on the way to anywhere else. Ok, I suppose a cynic could suggest that you might just hop on and off the back of Australia to get to New Zealand but after that you […]

At this time of year.

Its at this time of year that we should take a few moments to reflect. That’s what I’m told anyway so just as a time filler why not take exactly that – a few moments to do a bit of reflecting. Take a look out there and have a good, long, hard reflect. What shall […]

Typical. But not as we know it.

Yay! There’s going to be a royal wedding. Yay! How exciting. Yay! Hooray! And what makes it even more brilliant is the way that we’re going to be leaked all kinds of hints and titbits, assumptions and lies about it for the next 6 months. The media will be scratching themselves and everyone else for […]

Better off dying in your sleep.

Sometimes material just can’t keep away. It runs towards, throws off its clothes and jumps all over you. 2 days ago a poll was released containing the top 20 UK breakfast TV presenters, as voted for by the readers of The Radio Times. Even if the list had been brilliant the poll would have been […]

Ad. Break.

We live in strange times. You can take from the news anything you like but you can also bet your bottom dollar, and the one next to it, that not a lot of it will matter. At the moment it’s basically a putrid soup of political mismanagement, tax dodging motherfuckers and a seemingly inexhaustible string […]

The Banality Of It All.

What annoys me most about the punk movement is not the stupid attire, the poorly aimed aggression and the empty, worthless polemic but the insistence from old punk rockers that punk changed everything. It didn’t. There was bad music before, during and after punk and if anything punk just made a lot more people seem happy […]