“Confessing herself a “hopeless romantic” you can’t help thinking she’s destined to continue making tragic mistakes, engage in doomed love affairs and producing magnificently haunting music as a result. They say that ‘less is more’ but these five songs left me with a craving for a full album which I hope Nathan and Ojeda will… Read More Latest Music Review: The Lift – A sad beauty personified
So what do you do with a phenomenon like Eron Falbo? This Brazilian-born singer-songwriter is new, he’s young, he has his debut album ’73′ out – yet he croons like one of the masters straight out of the 70s. Eron Falbo is both ‘yesteryear’ and very much ‘now’ which leaves me somewhat befuddled. I can’t… Read More Album Review at the Doughnut – Eron Falbo “73”
I’ve just reviewed Monica Ali‘s Brick Lane for Paste magazine. Have a look! “Almost 14 months after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the debate surrounding the global garment factory industry shows no sign of abating. The April 24, 2013, collapse killed more than 1,100 people and injured more than 2,500—making it the world’s… Read More Book Review: A Retrospective review of Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Here’s a couple of pieces I’ve written for Egremont 2Day recently. Hats off to the Boys who go Full Monty From the opening, where we all wondered how they got a complete car on the stage, until the final ‘will-they-won’t-they’ strip, the crowd roared with laughter and cheered the courageous lads on as they told… Read More Latest articles on E2D
This is feel-good on steroids. I’ve just reviewed at cracking good album for The Doughnut which I warmly recommend to you. Tipped to be the album of the Summer, Robbie Boyd is already getting a lot of media attention and his debut album is worth the hype. Plus he seems to be a genuinely nice guy. Check out… Read More Album review – So Called Man by Robbie Boyd
So our good friends who follow Life in Russia have gracefully allowed me back there to guest post about Sonali. It’s a good job there are kind people out there! In this post I look at little at the life Ria has in Bangladesh and what will be coming when she comes to the UK. Please take… Read More Guest blog for Sonali number two – Life in Russia
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