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· April 11, 2020 · 1 minute to read
Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism | Fintan O'Toole
This virus does not respect Johnson’s delusions of national character, says Fintan O’Toole, columnist with the Irish Times

Great stuff.

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· January 9, 2020 · 1 minute to read
Doors drummer John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’
When he was at the centre of the US counterculture, he lived in terror of his bandmate. Yet after the singer’s death, he fought ferociously to protect his legacy. But, he says, he still regrets not calling out Morrison on his abusive relationships with women

This is really good. I’ve always really admired John Densmore’s refusal to sell out to advertisers.

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· December 17, 2019 · 0 minutes to read
'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50
The 50th anniversary of the experimental musician’s album Hot Rats carries with it resurfaced material and a re-examination of its finer points
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· November 13, 2019 · 1 minute to read
Marillion review – unfashionable prog veterans still questing into unknown
Sometimes they’re more slog than prog, but the unfashionable yet enduring popular band are given drama by frazzled frontman Steve Hogarth

A decent, but lukewarm, review of last night’s Marillion show in Glasgow.

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· September 4, 2019 · 0 minutes to read
Stereolab: 'There was craziness in getting lost and dizzy'
Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier pick their favourite tracks and reflect on two decades of pioneering electropop
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· May 17, 2019 · 1 minute to read
'It had to be raw and dangerous' – Def Leppard, Saxon and Venom on 80s British metal
Inspired by punk’s energy, the new wave of British heavy metal helped put the ‘snot and piss’ back into rock music. Forty years on, its leading players tell the story

This brought back some memories. The comments are terrible as usual. There is literally no subject that grown men won’t moan about on The Guardian (or elsewhere for that matter).

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· April 22, 2019 · 0 minutes to read
My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair | Carole Cadwalladr
For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley. Last week, at a TED talk that became a global viral sensation, she told the tech billionaires they had broken democracy. What happened next?
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· December 24, 2018 · 1 minute to read
Geddy Lee on Rush's greatest songs: 'Even I can barely make sense of our concept albums'
With widdly-woo guitars and albums about mythic priests, Rush became the biggest cult band in North America. Frontman Geddy Lee picks out his favourite songs from their back catalogue

I take issue with “widdly-woo” but a good article/read.

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· April 3, 2018 · 1 minute to read
Old music: Robert Wyatt – At Last I Am Free by George Chesterton (the Guardian)
In which a hero of the English counterculture embraces the hedonistic disco of Chic, and plays a blinder

An old article that I missed. One of my favourite cover versions.

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· May 28, 2017 · 1 minute to read

Liked: The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki review – delightful, mysterious Finnish comedy | Film | The Guardian

Here is a treat and a delight: this lovely film from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen is a gentle, shrewd, somehow mysterious love story, based on real life, beautifully photographed in luminous black-and-white and drawing inspiration from Scorsese and Truffaut.

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