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Middle-distant memory

of queuing outside the toilets with Roger McGough, talking about why we hate rap.

Mortehoe

My girlfriend cuts mushrooms in time with the radio and I think back an hour to the cliff-edge and the cemetery: the US Army captain … WWII … Korea … d.1984 and a grey stone heart – DOREEN.

Nicholson Baker confesses

‘Sometimes, when I finish typing a sentence I like, I flick my hand up from the keyboard like a pianist at the end of a piece. But this was not one of those times.’

Gospel, according to Spaceman

Review of Spiritualized at the Albert Hall. — For theartsdesk

‘What’s my muthafuckin’ name?’

Review of Snoop Dogg at the O2. What a twat. — For theartsdesk

Rock ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll in Soho

Triple bill of old- and not-so-old-school rock at Madame Jojo’s, reviewed. — For theartsdesk

Round ’em up (head ’em out)!

This week’s (Thursday – Wednesday) greatest hits from/by my colleagues at the nation’s finest critical website. — For theartsdesk

Maiden voyeur

Review of Iron Maiden, at the O2. (I did not see that coming.) — For theartsdesk

Musical note

MEMO – start a band called ‘the lower-case Ts’

An audience (with the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir)

Matters spiritual aren’t really, as they say, my ‘thing’. (In all honesty, I’m not too hot on the temporal, either). But recently, what with a local recital under discussion, surprise correspondence from an erstwhile colleague at Hampton Court, and then, of course, The Wedding (watched grudgingly, I hasten to add, though I stood for the […]