Earlier this month – and it already seems like eons ago – I had a fantastic five-day holiday in Jamaica. I was writing about the south coast and more specifically Jake’s hotel in Treasure Beach for the Scotsman Magazine (I’ll tweet a link when the piece is published). In the meantime this is just […]
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Bieber versus Bieber: so what if it’s a fraud?
From this: To this: = Genius. If it’s true that is. There are doubts that it’s not the real deal, some kind of hoax. Surely it would be simple enough to find out – just speed it up 800 times, no? But even if it isn’t what it claims to be, the person/people behind the […]
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
So farewell then, Michael Jackson. White-gloved, twinkle-toed Peter Pan of pop. You were untouchable until the 1990s. Since then you’ve been far too touching. Seriously though, we can all snigger at the jokes, but we shouldn’t let the wisecracks – or the meaningless 24hr news channels that are still dredging up the archive footage and […]
Rolling Stone blogger sounds death knell of the music critic
Soon-to-be redundant music journalist Christopher R. Weingarten bemoans the “lack of because” engendered by the rise of blogging, where everything, he says, is great, and nothing is analysed. Another highlight: “Fleet Foxes fucking suck!” (even if I don’t agree) Follow Chris on Twitter
