Apr
06
YOU'RE GETTING TO BE A HABIT WITH ME
With the sun shining briefly on this grey island of ours this Bank Holiday Monday, I thought I’d match
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Digital Renegade
Apr
05
RUSTIC CHIVALRY
I put aside Bach’s Easter Oratorio, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, and the soundtrack to MGM’s Easter Parade this
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Apr
02
TALKING TALK BOX
Demolition Man
My first experience of hearing a Talk Box came when I had the opportunity to listen to my
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Apr
01
SUMMIT MEETING
I had completely forgotten that the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883) took a 12-year break after completing the second
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Mar
30
PUNCH DRUNK
RAGING BULLY
Middleweight boxer Bernard Hopkins’s ring-walk entrance a few days after 9/11, set to Ray Charles’s
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Mar
29
MESSIAHS AND MASKS
IN GOOD FAITH WITH BAD FAITH ACTORS
Groucho Marx once quipped, “I’m not prepared to be a member of
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Mar
23
BLACK NARCISSIST
Was chatting with a friend over coffee a few weekends ago about cultural matters and somehow we got on to
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Mar
23
MISS CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER
Perhaps I’m a little biased, as the most prominent name in rotation on my music playlist lately was born
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Mar
22
DEVOTED TO THE DON
Sometimes you don’t realise how much you love something until it suddenly reappears in your life, and you feel
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Mar
19
NATIONAL TREASURE
There are many moments and events in history (both real and possibly invented) I would love to have been a
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