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Here is the news - Bob Dylan can put across a song 26 Aug 2013 | 11:50 am
I got up early this morning and ordered Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 by Bob Dylan from Amazon. I have Prime so it will arrive tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, I can rip th...
What I Read On My Holidays 23 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
I didn't set out to spend the summer reading unfashionable books. It was a New Yorker podcast with Jonathan Franzen that nudged me into reading two Edith Wharton books, The House of Mirth and then The...
What football needs is a theatre critic 20 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
Brian Case once wrote a piece about Ian Dury, which said something like "rock and roll is notable for two things - the beat, which isn't very interesting, and the gestural arts, which are." As the Pr...
No more big TV recommendations, thanks. I'm full 13 Aug 2013 | 11:53 am
Yes, I know Breaking Bad's really good. Yes, I know Deadwood is as well. As are Broadchurch, Top of The Lake, The Americans, Arrested Development and another half-dozen longform TV series I've never w...
Unrecouped 12 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
In the course of this really excellent discussion about how musicians are to make a living nowadays Dave Allen of the Gang Of Four says that after thirty-five years he's still not recouped from EMI Re...
Sometimes it's best not to have the human touch 9 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
We were delayed by a few hours in turning up at Calais for our booked journey on Le Shuttle. We didn't call ahead. We just thought we'd see what happened. I pulled up at the unmanned ticket office. A...
Seriously, are managers actually allowed to talk to players any more? 8 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
Luis Suarez says Brendan Rodgers promised him he could leave if Liverpool didn't get into the Champions League. Footballers are always referring to conversations about their future that allegedly too...
Soft adjectives are the sign of the reviewer who doesn't mean what he's writing 6 Aug 2013 | 02:23 pm
A data analyst called Gavin Potter has examined hundreds of reviews of wine and found that while the use of very specific words like pencil, graphite, cherry and smoky often indicates wine of high qua...
An encounter with Mick Farren thirty years ago this month 31 Jul 2013 | 01:04 am
Thirty years ago this month I was the editorial director of the company that published Smash Hits. This was experiencing such dramatic success in the UK that publishers overseas wanted to see if they ...
Thinking about J.J. Cale 28 Jul 2013 | 01:25 pm
The news of the death of J.J. Cale reaches me in rural France, where I have very little music to listen to. It doesn't matter because his is the kind of music I hold every detail of in my memory. We ...
