Sport & Leisure
David Bowie – What Did I Miss?
I don't know if you have noticed, but David Bowie died yesterday (aged 69) from a long and hideous illness that we all have had contact with directly, or indirectly, through our lives. Extraordinarily, Bowie managed to keep his inevitable demise a secret, denying an increasingly mawkish media and general public of information about his health, allowing him to not only die in peace, but complete an album that in line with deceased rock stars, ...
Adele Back in the Studio For 2016 Album!
Sources close to superstar singer/songwriter Adele, have confirmed she is in the studio putting the finishing touches on a new concept album to be released in 2016. Adele is looking to capitalise on the success of her recent album, 25, that has already sold millions of copies to faddists from all over the globe who bought the album just because everyone else did. The new album, thought to be called Farts, involves Adele sampling different ...
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot – Wisdom, Laughter and Lines
When The Beautiful South finally called it a day in the mid-noughties, Paul Heaton conceded that in music, in the words of the late Joe Strummer, "when you are hot, you are hot, when you are not, you are not." Accepting that his days of commercial success were behind him, Heaton embarked on a solo career that was only really noticed by the likes of me and a scattering others who have suffered from Heaton bias ever since he first emerged as ...
Mick Hucknall and the Death of Rebellious Music!
I was watching 'This Week' on Thursday night, a kind of semi-satirical political programme presented by Andrew Neil, the former Sunday Times editor and consumer of three shredded wheat a day (he eats two and puts the other one on his head). Along with his weekly guests that feature Alan Johnson, Michael Portillo and his pet dog, they also have a weekly special guest offering their take on politics and the week that has just passed in parlia...
The Jam Exhibition – Somerset House
I went to see The Jam exhibition with my youngest son today at Somerset House in London, which, if you don't know, is just over Waterloo Bridge and a few hundred yards eastbound on the edge of the River Thames. I was very young when I first heard The Jam, courtesy of my elder brother Graham, who had bought their début album In the City in 1977, an album that immediately impressed me as on the track Time for Truth, lead singer Paul Weller ...