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Tuesday, November 05, 2002

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Black & White & Read All Over
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The Laughter Track

Listening

Thank - I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed
Beak> - >>>>
Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God

Reading

Jennifer Lucy Allan - 'The Foghorn's Lament'
Monica Ali - 'Brick Lane'
Patrick Suskind - 'Perfume'
Helen Cross - 'My Summer Of Love'
Blake Morrison - 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?'
Jon Savage - '1966'
Leah Kardos - 'Hounds Of Love'

Watching

'Where You're Meant To Be'
'QI'
'Inside No. 9'
'Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing'
'Threads'
'Mr Loverman'
'Daddy Issues'

Music interviews

Arab Strap
The August List
Rich Collins (Cosmic Carnage)
Gindrinker
Matt Jarrett (Fuelled By Jealous Lovers)
Los Campesinos!
Denis O'Regan
Six. By Seven
Jeff Terich (Treble)

Album reviews

... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X: The Godless Void And Other Stories
... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - XI: Let It Bleed
A. Savage - Several Songs About Fire
Adulkt Life - Book Of Curses
Air Formation - Daylight Storms
Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
Alan Vega - Mutator
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Alffa - Rhyddid O'r Cysgodion Gwenwynig
Algiers - There Is No Year
Alison Cotton - The Portrait You Painted Of Me
Alpha Male Tea Party - Health
Anathallo - Floating World
Andrew Hung - Deliverance
Angel Olsen - Big Time
Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly
Anna von Hausswolff - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival
Art Brut - Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!
Avey Tare - 7s
Bar Italia - The Twits
bdrmm - I Don't Know
Beak> - >>>>
Big Brave - nature morte
Bilge Pump - We Love You
Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
Bill Ryder-Jones - Yawn
black midi - Hellfire
Black Mountain - Destroyer
Blanck Mass - The Rig
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Boris - W
Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease
Brian Wilson - At My Piano
Broken Bells - Into The Blue
Canyon - Empty Rooms
Cassels - The Perfect Ending
Cat Power - The Greatest
Cat Power - Wanderer
Cave In - Antenna
Clinic - Wheeltappers And Shunters
Cosey Fanni Tutti - TUTTI
Crows - Beware Believers
Damien Jurado - In The Shape Of A Storm
Daniel Blumberg - On&On
Daniel O'Sullivan - Folly
Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe - Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe
Dave Lombardo - Rites Of Percussion
Dead Meadow - Old Growth
Deaf Wish - Lithium Zion
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Dean Ween - Rock2
Deap Lips - Deap Lips
Death Of Fashion - Hello Movement
DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water
Divide And Dissolve - Systemic
Drahla - Useless Coordinates
Dream Wife - Dream Wife
Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
EERA - Speak
Efterklang - Windflowers
Envy - Insomniac Doze
Envy - The Fallen Crimson
Ex Hex - It's Real
Explosions In The Sky - End
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
False Friends - False Friends
Fat White Family - Forgiveness Is Yours
Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
Fu Manchu - The Return Of Tomorrow
Fuzz - III
Gary Numan - Intruder
Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
GNOD - Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy
Goat - Goat
Goat Girl - Below The Waste
Goat Girl - Goat Girl
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title As Of 13 February 2024, 28,340 Dead
Gong - Pulsing Signals
Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free
Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
Harkin - Harkin
Hilary Woods - Colt
Ho99o9 - Skin
Honeyblood - In Plain Sight
Hookworms - Microshift
Housewives - Twilight Splendour
Howling Bells - Howling Bells
IDLES - Tangk
Idlewild - Warnings / Promises
Imperial Wax - Gastwerk Saboteurs
Islet - Soft Fascination
Jambinai - Onda
Jane Weaver - Flock
Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
Katy J Pearson - Someday, Now
Kim Gordon - The Collective
Lanterns On The Lake - Spook The Herd
Late Night Final - A Wonderful Hope
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Les Savy Fav - Oui, LSF
Liars - The Apple Drop
Lice - It All Worked Out Great Vol. 1 & 2
Liela Moss - Internal Working Model
Liturgy - 93696
Los Blancos - Sbwriel Gwyn
Lovemat - The Fearless Hair Days Of Youth
Low - Drums And Guns
Low - The Great Destroyer
Luke Haines - Setting The Dogs On The Post Punk Postman
Manic Street Preachers - Resistance Is Futile
Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins
Maximo Park - Risk To Exist
Meilir - In Tune
Melvins - Tarantula Heart
Mogwai - Mr Beast
Mono - Nowhere Now Here
Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1
Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Nik Colk Void - Bucked Up Space
Nordic Giants - Symbiosis
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Bauhaus Staircase
Osees - Metamorphosed
Philip Selway - Let Me Go
Placebo - Never Let Me Go
Pom Poko - Cheater
Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight
Quasi - Breaking The Balls Of History
Que Asco! - Reaper
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
R Seiliog - Megadoze
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved!
Richard Dawson - The Ruby Cord
Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
Russian Circles - Blood Year
Ryley Walker - Course In Fable
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
Sigur Ros - Takk
Silver Moth - Black Bay
Six. By Seven - :04
Six. By Seven - Artists, Cannibals, Poets, Thieves
Six. By Seven - Club Sandwich At The Peveril Hotel
Sleaford Mods - UK Grim
sleepmakeswaves - Made Of Breath Only
Slift - Ilion
Sonic Youth - Live In Brooklyn 2011
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Sons & Daughters - This Gift
Spare Snare - The Brutal
Suuns - The Witness
Sweet Baboo - Wild Imagination
Swervedriver - Future Ruins
Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever
Teeth Of The Sea - Wraith
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The August List - Wax Cat
The Black Angels - Death Song
The Concretes - The Concretes
The Coral - Move Through The Dawn
The Coral - Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
The Delgados - Hate
The Delgados - Universal Audio
The Drones - Gala Mill
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
The Holy Family - The Holy Family
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
The Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony
The Lemon Twigs - Songs For The General Public
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
The Raveonettes - Chain Gang Of Love
The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
The Raveonettes - Sing...
The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
The Strokes - Room On Fire
The Utopia Strong - International Treasure
The Wave Pictures - Brushes With Happiness
Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire
TT - LoveLaws
Uniform - Shame
Various Artists - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The 22 Of Us
Various Artists - Waves Of Distortion: The Best Of Shoegaze 1990-2022
Warp Transmission - The Process Ultra
William Doyle - Great Spans Of Muddy Time
William Doyle - Springs Eternal
William Shatner - The Blues
Wire - Silver/Lead
Working Men's Club - Fear Fear
Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Year Of The Kite - With Sparks Flying
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
You & The Atom Bomb - Shake Shake Hello?!
Young Knives - Barbarians
Zola Jesus - Okovi
Zu - Jhator

Single reviews

Autons - 'Snakes'
Beats Capri - 'Me Your Girl'
Gindrinker - Demo
Jane Weaver - 'The Architect'
Lanterns On The Lake - The Realist EP
Los Blancos - 'Clarach'/'Cadi'
Lovemat - 'Between The Lines'
Mark Lanegan - Still Life With Roses EP
Niterooms - Niterooms EP
Peaness - Are You Sure? EP
Red Telephone - 'Victoria Park'
Slate Hearts - Honey Roasted Henry EP
Spinner Fall - Monument EP
StrangeTime - 'Demonstration No 1'
The Invisible Clock Factory - 'Penelope Rose' / 'The Quantum Particles Rock And Roll Song'
The Lovely Eggs - 'I Shouldn't Have Said That'
The Other Dramas - 'I'll See You Again'
Yo La Tengo - Sleepless Night EP

Gig reviews

!!! / Bandicoot (20/11/19)
!!! / Lioness (15/10/07)
51 Breaks / When Bears Attack / The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank Project (11/10/05)
65daysofstatic / Dead Method (14/06/18)
Acid Mothers Temple / Voice Of The Seven Woods (08/11/06)
Alan Sparhawk / Memotone (05/11/24)
Algiers / Silent Forum / New Haunts (03/07/19)
Amber Arcades / Ella (19/10/16)
Amber Arcades / Tender Prey (30/03/17)
And So I Watch You From Afar / Hreda / Nitkowski / Ivy's Itch (23/09/09)
Audiobooks / Ani Glass (09/03/19)
Autons (29/03/08)
Autons / Maria Szyrtisz & The Pyramids Of Mars / Josie Watts / Chris Perrin (20/11/05)
Autons / My Passion / You & The Atom Bomb (22/04/06)
Baby Bushka (02/10/18)
Bat For Lashes (11/10/23)
Bat For Lashes / Yeasayer (08/10/09)
bdrmm / DAMEFRISOR (11/18/23)
Beak> / Litronix (30/10/24)
Benefits / Scrounge (24/04/23)
Big Brave / Jessica Moss (04/09/23)
Bill Ryder-Jones / Sweet Baboo (18/03/24)
Black Flag / Total Chaos (12/10/19)
Black Mountain / Wolf People (04/09/10)
Blacklisters / The Correct Arc / Kancho! (25/09/15)
Blanck Mass / Frans Gender & Violet Grace (03/12/19)
Blood Red Shoes / King Alexander / The Toy Band (01/02/07)
Blood Red Shoes / These New Puritans / Peggy Sue & The Pirates (03/04/08)
Bloody Head / Haul / Cruel Prank / Jake Healy (21/10/22)
Bob Vylan / Grove (17/05/22)
Borderville / Matt Winkworth & The Winkworthers Originals / The Freemantle (18/02/11)
Boy Azooga / Man Of Moon / Esther (28/04/18)
Broken Social Scene / Los Campesinos! (29/08/06)
Broken Social Scene / The Brunettes (22/05/08)
Bryde / Little Red (21/04/17)
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard (09/12/20)
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard / Alice Low / Ailsa Tully (17/04/22)
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard / Shoebox Orchestra / Rainn Byrns / CVC (05/05/19)
Buzzcocks / The Darling Buds (27/04/18)
Camille O'Sullivan (12/06/18)
Car Seat Headrest / Naked Giants (05/11/18)
Cat Matador / Dallas Don't / Pump Shark / Robots With Souls (20/04/12)
Cave In / Dureforsog (15/02/03)
Cave In / Taint / Adzuki (08/03/06)
Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon / Gwenno & Gruff / Astroid Boys / Boy Azooga / Los Blancos (15/02/19)
Clanky Robo Gob Jobs / 50ft Panda / David K Frampton / Eduard Soundingblock (14/05/08)
Cloud Nothings / Human Heat / Enouement (10/07/19)
Co-Pilgrim / The August List / Swindlestock (09/10/14)
Cougar / Elapse-O / Balls Deep (21/10/09)
Courtney Barnett / Audiobooks (29/06/22)
Crack Cloud / Beauty Parlour (24/07/22)
Creepy Morons / The Rebel / Gindrinker (14/09/07)
Dallas Don't / Traps / Charlie Baxter (22/02/12)
Dananananaykroyd / Calories (28/03/09)
DARTZ! / The New 1920 / May Contain Nuts (13/02/07)
Das Wanderlust / The Retro Spankees / Persil / Inner City Pirates (16/02/07)
Dead Meadow / The Voices (26/05/06)
Deap Vally / Skaters / Dolomite Minor (30/10/13)
Dieter Moebius / Billy Mahonie / The Oscillation / Nought / The Rock Of Travolta / Rome Pays Off / Mephisto Grande / Sunnyvale Noise Sub-Element (06/11/10)
Dinosaur Jr / Dead Confederate (19/08/09)
Dirty Three / Josh Pearson (21/11/05)
Ditz / Heavy Lungs / Terrapins (22/04/23)
Don Caballero / Hreda / Secondsmile (10/11/08)
Dream Wife / Lime Garden (28/03/22)
Drunk Granny / Lily Green (22/01/07)
DUDS / Gindrinker / Silent Forum / Head Noise (23/01/18)
Editors / Needless Alley / Chester Road (28/01/05)
Eels (06/07/03)
Efterklang / Heather Woods Broughton (22/04/10)
Einstellung / One Unique Signal / From Here We Run (27/08/09)
Electric Eel Shock / Smilex (20/10/09)
Elvana (02/09/16)
Elvana (20/10/18)
Emma Pollock / Derek Meins / Andy Gower (03/12/07)
Empty Vessels / Dallas Don't / Fulangchangandi (24/09/11)
English Teacher / Gladboy (11/05/24)
Errors / Pixel Fix (08/05/12)
Errors / So So Modern / Jonny Dare (02/03/10)
Estrons / Mellt (06/12/18)
Ex Models / Elapse-O / Load. Click. Shoot. / Ice, Sea, Dead People (15/05/08)
Fat White Family / John Francis Flynn (10/06/24)
FEWS / The Picture Palace (13/10/16)
Field Music / The Keys (05/10/06)
Firefriend (15/06/23)
Flasher / Private World / Zac White (06/11/18)
Foals / Attack + Defend / Tired Irie (06/03/07)
Foals / Jonquil (12/05/10)
Fontaines DC / Hotel Lux / Slagheap (09/12/18)
Fucked Up / Big Cheese (11/03/23)
Fugazi / Wolves! (Of Greece) / Twinkie (23/10/02)
Funeral For A Friend / The Rapture / The Von Bondies / Franz Ferdinand (27/01/04)
Future Of The Left / Deguello / BITCHES (02/04/08)
Gindrinker / The School / Broken Leaf / Spencer McGarry / Little My (10/08/08)
Girls Names / Too Many Poets / Swoons (24/03/16)
Glasvegas / The Half Rabbits / International Jetsetters (12/02/08)
Gnod / Codex Serafini (16/11/21)
Gnod / Mai Mai Mai / Sunshine (08/06/17)
Goldie Lookin Chain (24/04/04)
Gong / Ozric Tentacles (10/03/24)
Gwenno / Adwaith / Halo Maud (17/10/18)
Har Mar Superstar (03/10/03)
HEALTH / Listing Ships / The Manacles Of Acid (01/09/11)
Heavy Lungs / Alffa (19/04/24)
Hey Colossus / Guide Dog (03/03/18)
Holy Bouncer / Risorius / HalfBlind / Pastel (24/01/18)
Holy Fuck / It Hugs Back (08/05/09)
Holy Fuck / Kelpe (17/10/08)
Holy Fuck / Lucia Tacchetti (28/04/22)
Hot Club De Paris / This Town Needs Guns / From Here We Run (24/02/10)
Hot Hot Heat / Franz Ferdinand / The Fiery Furnaces (05/11/03)
Howling Bells / The Alones / The Spencer McGarry Season (22/03/07)
Howling Bells / The Joy Formidable (05/03/09)
I Am Drug (28/04/18)
I Am Zeitgeist / The International Karate Plus / StrangeTime (18/11/05)
IDLES / Lice / People And Other Diseases (05/04/17)
Ill Ease / Music For One / Lily Green (21/03/07)
Illuminati Hotties / Ducks Ltd (14/05/22)
Imperial Wax / Gindrinker / Alex Dingley (07/06/19)
Interpol / Secret Machines (16/12/04)
Isis / Torche (08/10/08)
Islet / Ivor Woods (30/09/23)
J Mascis / Chris Brokaw (19/11/02)
Jane's Addiction / Stellastarr* (07/11/03)
Japandroids / 4 Or 5 Magicians / William (27/10/09)
Japandroids / Phantom Theory / Keyboard Choir (18/05/10)
Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage / Quiet Marauder (26/09/19)
John (09/09/21)
John Grant / Big Special (24/10/24)
Johnny Foreigner / Tellison / Japanese Voyeurs (06/10/09)
Johnny Marr / Self Esteem / Wet Leg (03/04/22)
Jonquil / Hreda / Theo / Gossamer Albatross (09/04/08)
Julian Cope / Patrick Jones (20/04/17)
Kelly Lee Owens (25/11/21)
Keys / Los Blancos / Sock (17/07/19)
Kid Kin / Ghosts In The Photographs / The Beckoning Fair Ones / Cosmosis (20/06/15)
Lazarus Clamp / The Spencer McGarry Season / Palace Music (21/08/08)
Lily Green / Gender Fascist (12/10/06)
Lily Green & Bela Emerson / Drei / Gindrinker (31/10/06)
LoneLady (28/01/22)
Los Campesinos! (13/12/21)
Los Campesinos! / Attack + Defend / The Wave Pictures / Gindrinker / The Loves / Threatmantics / The Stray Borders / Little My And Friends (26/11/06)
Los Campesinos! / Copy Haho / Sparky Deathcap (29/10/09)
Los Campesinos! / Help She Can't Swim / Napoleon IIIrd (04/06/07)
Los Campesinos! / No Age / Times New Viking (20/10/08)
Los Campesinos! / Porchlight / Shake My Hand / Little My And Friends (16/09/06)
Lovemat / Delta Red (18/02/06)
Low (10/02/03)
Low / Kid Dakota (19/02/05)
Low / Paul Thomas Saunders (17/11/10)
Low / Sleepingdog (20/05/11)
M83 / Porcelain Raft (24/01/12)
Machiavellian Art / Squalor Fan / Horrible Men / Haq123 (10/01/20)
Madonnatron / Melt Dunes / Telgate / Hollow Mask / Big Whoop (23/03/18)
Maiians / Cassels / Rosie Caldecott (28/01/16)
Malcolm Middleton / The Accidental (26/03/08)
Man Forever / Jaxson Payne (12/12/19)
Manatees / Space In The 50s / Infants / Solomon Kane (19/02/07)
Maximo Park / Teleman (18/03/14)
Mclusky / Jarcrew (08/09/22)
Mclusky / John (09/09/22)
Melt Yourself Down / Magugu (13/03/22)
Melt-Banana / Gindrinker (04/06/17)
Melt-Banana / Monet (24/09/24)
Melvins (30/09/11)
Melvins / Big Business / Porn (The Men Of) (10/12/06)
Mercury Rev / The Duke Spirit (11/03/05)
Metz / Drahla / John (28/08/18)
Midas / Beats Capri / StrangeTime / Sinistra (13/09/05)
Midding / Slate / Zac White (10/06/22)
Moaning / The Tates (29/04/18)
Mogwai (02/04/06)
Mogwai / Bardo Pond (22/10/03)
Mogwai / Dead Meadow / Wolves! (Of Greece) (24/03/04)
Mogwai / The Twilight Sad (23/02/11)
Mugstar (27/10/17)
My Bloody Valentine / Graham Coxon (23/06/08)
My Latest Novel / Semifinalists / Lone Pine (23/03/06)
Nadine Shah / LIFE (15/10/17)
Naughty / Gindrinker / Watermelons / Pagan Wanderer Lu & The Volunteers / Silence At Sea / Guto Dafis (27/05/07)
Neal Casal / Danny George Wilson (12/02/06)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (07/11/04)
Nicole Atkins & Jim Sclavunos (10/06/23)
No Age / Jeff Wode (11/10/13)
Noxagt / Truckers Of Husk / Circa Regna Tonat / Zumbar (25/09/06)
Orcop / Lone Pine (20/03/08)
Our Girl / Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard / Big Thing (23/10/18)
Oxes / Bilge Pump / Nitkowski / Eduard Soundingblock / Prefontaine (23/10/08)
Parquet Courts / The Wytches / Ultimate Painting (26/06/14)
Part Chimp / Grey Hairs / Twisted Ankle (27/04/17)
Part Chimp / Sex Swing (04/12/21)
Passion Pit / Hockey / Bear Hands (12/02/09)
PAWS / Virals / Ides (20/02/13)
PINS / Baby In Vain (10/04/17)
PINS / Peace And Love Barbershop Muhammad Ali / The Other Dramas (11/02/16)
PJ Harvey (11/09/04)
Plastic Mermaids / Goo Lagoon / French Alps Tiger (20/09/19)
Polysics / Cutting Pink With Knives (11/02/08)
Pom Poko (31/01/22)
Protomartyr / Bobby Would (11/08/23)
Public Service Broadcasting (13/10/17)
Queens Of The Stone Age / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Vendetta Red (29/10/02)
Quodega / Farm Hand / Sock / Sweet Baboo (21/07/18)
Raging Speedhorn / By Any Means / Burden Of The Noose / Black Skies Burn (22/07/16)
Rays / Goodbye Sergeants / Confrontiers / Patti Plinko And Her Boy / Lily Green (23/09/07)
Red Letter Day / Reinhardt / Qhixldekx (26/10/02)
Richard Dawson / Me Lost Me (03/05/23)
Ride (01/09/18)
Right Hand Left Hand / Quodega / HMS Morris / Cotton Wolf / My Name Is Ian / Sock (14/12/19)
Ringo Deathstarr / Sealings (30/11/09)
Ringo Deathstarr / The Neon Violets / Kancho! (10/03/16)
Rolo Tomassi / Blood Command / Cassus (01/11/18)
Rolo Tomassi / Ivy's Itch (22/10/08)
Rose Kemp / Underground Railroad / The Physicists / Llan Clan (20/01/07)
Royal Blood / At The Drive-In (13/11/17)
Royal Blood / Tigercub (26/02/14)
Ruth Theodore (02/03/05)
Ryley Walker / Sonny Winnebago (03/09/22)
Sacred Paws / Spinning Coin / Neurotic Fiction (19/02/17)
Sennen / Matt Winkworth (06/05/10)
Shame / The Goa Express / The Umlauts (09/11/21)
Shopping / Gauche / Lawndale High (09/11/17)
Sigur Ros / Amina (14/11/05)
Sky Larkin / Pulled Apart By Horses / Wolves Of Virginia (28/01/09)
Sleaford Mods / LIINES (05/04/19)
Sleaford Mods / Salvation Bill / Here Are The Young Men & Uncle Peanut (11/03/15)
Sly & The Family Drone / DJ Young Conservative / Telegrapher (24/04/15)
Soccer Mommy / Brooke Bentham (12/09/18)
Sonic Youth (01/09/07)
Sonic Youth (02/09/04)
Sonic Youth / The Pop Group (30/10/10)
Sons & Daughters / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / International Jetsetters (07/11/07)
Space In The 50s / Gindrinker / Evils (25/01/07)
Spare Snare / Jemma Roper (13/01/19)
Sparrow And The Workshop / Rob St John / Bethany Weimers (12/05/11)
Sparrow And The Workshop / Sketches (14/10/10)
Spiritualized (20/03/12)
Spiritualized / Six By Seven (26/01/04)
Spiritualized / The Shortwave Set (13/10/08)
Squid / PVA (03/10/21)
Stella Donnelly / Annabel Allum (16/05/18)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Clor (17/09/05)
Stornoway / Alphabet Backwards / Vixens (08/11/08)
StrangeTime (14/03/08)
StrangeTime / Dedd Zebra / The Disciples Of Tone (20/01/06)
Sweet Baboo / Kid Carpet / Farm Hand (07/12/17)
Tall Ships / Silent Forum / Shadows Into Light (04/05/17)
Tame Impala / Kirin J Callinan (22/05/14)
Tangled Hair / Alpha Male Tea Party / 100 Onces (19/08/15)
Tellison / Bad Ideas / Cassels (07/06/15)
Tera Melos / Tangled Hair (22/03/18)
Thank / Nailbreaker / Modern Technology / Deadpop / Maes Y Circles / Cinza / Spunday (26/11/22)
The Antlers / Morning Parade / Chad Valley (04/03/10)
The August List / Seth & Katie (25/06/15)
The Bellrays / The D4 (17/09/02)
The Besnard Lakes (30/05/17)
The Besnard Lakes / Erland & The Carnival (26/03/10)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre (21/06/16)
The Bug Club / Pigeon Wigs (21/07/22)
The Cosmic Dead / Infinity Forms Of Yellow Remember (09/07/18)
The Datsuns / The Hellacopters (13/12/02)
The Delgados / Aereogramme / Mr Airplane Man (02/02/03)
The Drums / Funeral Party (23/02/10)
The Duke Spirit / Creepy Morons / Man From Michael (19/11/07)
The Fall / Bo Ningen (03/02/17)
The Fall / Heck (26/03/07)
The Fiery Furnaces / Nomad 67 (09/11/07)
The Fiery Furnaces / Sons & Daughters / Red Organ Serpent Sound (26/08/04)
The Fiery Furnaces / Talk In Code (20/09/09)
The Flaming Lips / Alfie (31/10/03)
The Futureheads / Maximo Park (06/12/04)
The Futureheads / Novacub (28/05/19)
The Guru Guru / My Octopus Mind / Monet (12/04/23)
The Gutter Twins / Carina Round (11/08/08)
The Icarus Line / Modey Lemon (03/05/04)
The Jesus And Mary Chain / Chain Of Flowers (03/10/17)
The Jim Jones Revue / Half Naked (12/10/10)
The Light Era / Jetlag / Augustine / StrangeTime (03/11/05)
The Little Unsaid / Waltz In The Shallow End (07/03/15)
The Loungs / Autokat / The Toy Band / Little My (14/12/06)
The Magic Numbers / The Pipettes (15/05/05)
The Physics House Band / False Hope For The Savage / Death Cult Electric (19/07/19)
The Raveonettes / Razorlight / M.A.S.S. (30/10/03)
The School / Flicklisten / The Puncture Repair Kit (19/06/08)
The Shins / Atlantic Dash (14/07/04)
The St Pierre Snake Invasion / Cassels (02/10/19)
The Thurston Moore Band / Hannah Lou Clark (10/05/15)
The Vines / The Libertines / Hoggboy (30/10/02)
The Warlocks / Goldrush / Blood Red Shoes / Witches / The People's Revolutionary Choir / Stornoway (27/11/07)
The Wedding Present / The Flatmates (02/05/19)
The Young Knives / The Martini Henry Rifles / Shy Magnolias (13/03/06)
Thee Alcoholics / I Am Drug / Cemetery Dogs (08/11/24)
Therapy? (23/03/22)
Therapy? (29/11/03)
Threatmantics / Silent Forum / Joel Hurst (22/02/19)
Trash Fashion / The Pubic Fringe / Motorcycle Stunts (06/12/05)
Trembling Bells / The Halycons / The Roundheels / Matt Winkworth (03/10/09)
Tricot / False Hope For The Savage (29/08/17)
Tunic / Death Goals / The Pleasures / The Shania Twainsaw Massacre (20/09/24)
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats / Blood Ceremony (24/01/19)
Vessels / Hreda / Von Braun (10/01/08)
Wavves / From Light To Sound (18/11/09)
We Were Promised Jetpacks / The Gullivers / Cat Matador (12/11/09)
White Hills / Zinc Bukowski (14/11/22)
White Manna / Infinity Forms Of Yellow Remember / Deep Hum (25/09/17)
Winnebago Deal / Deguello / Venus Elixir (25/07/06)
WITCH / Hutch / Dactyl Terra (30/07/24)
Wolf Eyes / Consumer Electronics / Somatic Responses / Trawsfynydd Lo-Fi Liberation Front (19/04/07)
Working Men's Club (08/11/21)
Working Men's Club / Lazarus Kane (20/02/20)
Wylderness / Los Blancos (24/03/18)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Har Mar Superstar (28/02/03)
Yo La Tengo / Dump (10/06/11)
Yo La Tengo / Minotaur Shock (07/11/06)
Zu / Dr Slaggleberry / Drunkenstein (04/10/09)

Gig previews

Algiers (03/07/19)
Alison Cotton (23/03/24)
Benefits (24/04/23)
Big Brave (04/09/23)
Blanck Mass (03/12/19)
Bob Vylan (17/05/22)
Caribou (28/01/22)
Cloud Nothings (10/07/19)
Man Forever (12/12/19)
Martin Creed (22/07/17)
Mary Lattimore (29/08/24)
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (13/11/21)
Public Service Broadcasting (24/10/21)
Pulled Apart By Horses (05/12/17)
Richard Dawson (06/05/20)
The Jesus & Mary Chain (03/10/17)
White Hills (14/11/22)

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Glastonbury 2005 review

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Summer Sundae 2006 review

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Glastonbury 2007 review

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Supersonic 2007 review

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Green Man 2007 review

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Glastonbury 2008 review

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ATP curated by The Breeders 2009 review

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Glastonbury 2009 review

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Southsea Fest 2009 review

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ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by My Bloody Valentine 2009 review

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10 Years Of All Tomorrow's Parties 2009 review

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ATP curated by Pavement 2010 review

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Glastonbury 2010 review

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1-2-3-4 Shoreditch 2010 review

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Truck 2010 review

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Green Man 2010 review

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ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor 2010 review

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Glastonbury 2011 review

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Southsea Fest 2011 review

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ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Les Savy Fav / Battles / Caribou 2011 review

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Sounds From The Other City 2012 review

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Gathering Festival 2012 review

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Gathering Festival 2013 review

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Oxford Punt 2014 review

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Oxford Punt 2015 review

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Oxford Punt 2016 review

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Cardiff Psych & Noise Festival 2019 review

Sunday

Green Man 2019 review

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Green Man 2022 review

Monday to Sunday

Green Man 2023 review

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Festival previews

Hub Festival 2019

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Music features

'Artsnight: Thurston Moore'
'Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen To The Banned'
'Counter Culture: Cardiff'
'David Bowie: Five Years'
'Gareth Gwynn's Little Book Of Welsh Rock'
'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 60s
'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 70s
'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 80s
'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 90s
'Good Vibrations: The Story Of The Theremin'
'Goth At The BBC'
'Kate Bush At The BBC'
'Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power'
'More Baby In My Monitor Please'
'Music's Dirty Secrets: Women Fight Back'
'Other, Like Me: The Oral History Of COUM Transmissions And Throbbing Gristle'
'Parallel Universes, Parallel Lives'
'Pop: What Is It Good For?'
'Punk 1976-78' exhibition
'Reel Stories: Dave Grohl'
'Reginald D Hunter's Songs Of The South'
'Rip It Up Unwrapped: Chemikal Underground'
'Rip It Up Unwrapped: The KLF'
'Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm'
'The Importance Of Being Morrissey'
'The Wonderful And Frightening World Of Mark E Smith'
'Thurston Moore's Guitar Masterclass'
'Trainwreck: Woodstock '99'
'Two Tone Britain'
'When Nirvana Came To Britain'
'Wild Boys: The Story Of Duran Duran'
Chris Cornell RIP
Feel Good Hits Satellite Music Channel Special: Part 1
Feel Good Hits Satellite Music Channel Special: Part 2
Grassroots music venues in Wales
Mimi Parker RIP
Morrissey on 'Later With Jools Holland'
Nick Cave and 'The South Bank Show'
Nige Tassell on 'Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?'
RIP NME
Shuffleathon 2006 review
Shuffleathon 2007 review
Shuffleathon 2008 review
Six. By Seven RIP
Swells RIP
Ten cover versions
The Delgados RIP
The Dismemberment Plan RIP
Top UK #1s

Music Sounds Better With You

#1: Abba - 'Ring Ring'
#2: The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
#3: Guns 'N' Roses - 'Paradise City'
#4: Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
#5: Sonic Youth - 'Drunken Butterfly'
#6: Garbage - 'Stupid Girl'
#7: Mogwai - 'Angels vs Aliens'
#8: Eels - 'It's A Motherfucker'
#9: At The Drive-In - 'Cosmonaut'
#10: The Strokes - 'Last Nite'

Book features

Susie Dent interview
'Invisible Britain' launch and Q&A
Blake Morrison interview
D H Lawrence - relevant or relic?
'Lawrence In Notts: Creations And Recreations'
BBC's 'D H Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame'
C4's 'Philip Larkin: Love And Death In Hull'
BBC2's 'Love Again' (Philip Larkin)
Saul Bellow RIP
BBC2's 'Iain Banks: Raw Spirit'
BBC's 'Faulks On Fiction'
David Mitchell in conversation about 'Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse'
Vince Cable talking about 'After The Storm'
Peter Finch talking about 'Edging the City'
Perry Wyatt interview about These Pages Sing

Book events

Susie Dent - 'The Secret Lives Of Words'
Gwyn Thomas & Andrew Motion
Nige Tassell on 'Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?'

Book reviews

Alan Bennett - 'Three Stories'
Alan Bennett - 'Writing Home'
Alan Hollinghurst - 'The Line Of Beauty'
Alan Partridge - 'I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan'
Andrew McMillan - 'Pity'
Andrew Motion - 'Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life'
Andrew Mueller - 'Rock And Hard Places'
Anthony Burgess - 'Flame Into Being'
Benjamin Myers - 'Cuddy'
Benjamin Myers - 'Rare Singles'
Benjamin Myers - 'The Gallows Pole'
Benjamin Myers - 'The Offing'
Benjamin Myers - 'The Perfect Golden Circle'
Biddy Wells - 'Scrabble In The Afternoon'
Bill Hicks - 'Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines'
Bob Dylan - 'Chronicles: Volume One'
Bob Mortimer - 'And Away...'
Bud Lee - 'The War Is Here: Newark 1967'
Carrie Brownstein - 'Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl'
Chris Steele-Perkins - 'The Troubles'
Cormac McCarthy - 'The Road'
Craig Olsen - 'PS Burn This Letter Please'
Cynthia True - 'American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story'
D B C Pierre - 'Vernon God Little'
Daryl Leeworthy - 'Ponty Is It? Travels In A Valleys Town'
Dave Grohl - 'The Storyteller'
David B - 'Epileptic'
David Crossland - 'Whispering Walls: First World War Graffiti'
David Wilson - 'Peeling Paint And Rust'
David Wilson - 'The Village'
Deborah Curtis - 'Touching From A Distance'
Don DeLillo - 'The Body Artist'
Donna Tartt - 'The Secret History'
Douglas Coupland - 'Girlfriend In A Coma'
Drew Buckley - 'Pembrokeshire: Discovering The Coast Path'
Dylan Thomas - 'Under Milk Wood'
Emma Schofield (ed.) - 'Woman's Wales?'
Erich Maria Remarque - 'All Quiet On The Western Front'
Ernest Hemingway - 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson - 'Women And The Miners' Strike, 1984-1985'
Francis Wheen - 'How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World'
Franz Kafka - 'The Trial'
Frederic Beigbeder - '£9.99'
Gemma June Howell - 'The Crazy Truth'
Geoff Dyer - 'Out Of Sheer Rage'
Geoff Dyer - 'The Ongoing Moment'
Geoff Nicholson - 'Walking In Thin Air'
George Orwell - 'Down And Out In Paris And London'
Glyn Mathias and Daniel G. Williams (eds) - 'A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology of Contemporary Welsh Poetry'
Graeme Oxby - 'The Kings Of England'
Harper Lee - 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
Harry Pearson - 'Slipless In Settle'
Harry Pearson - 'The Far Corner'
Haruki Murakami - 'After Dark'
Iain Banks - 'The Wasp Factory'
Ian McEwan - 'On Chesil Beach'
Ian Rankin - 'Beggars Banquet'
Ian Wade - '1984: The Year Pop Went Queer'
Irvine Welsh - 'Filth'
J G Ballard - 'Concrete Island'
J G Ballard - 'Super-Cannes'
Jack Kerouac - 'On The Road'
James Acaster - 'James Acaster's Classic Scrapes'
James Joyce - 'Ulysses'
James Lacey - 'A World In Ruins'
Jamie Owen and David Wilson - 'A Year In Pembrokeshire'
Jason Munn - 'The Small Stakes'
Jay Rayner - 'Chewing The Fat: Tasting Notes From A Greedy Life'
Jessi Jezewska Stevens - 'Ghost Pains'
Jim Crace - 'Being Dead'
John Downing - 'Aperture: Life Through A Fleet Street Lens'
John Harris - 'The Last Party'
John Higgs - 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic And The Band Who Burned A Million Pounds'
John Williams - 'Stoner'
Jon McGregor - 'Reservoir 13'
Jon Pountney - 'COVID-19'
Jon Savage - 'England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols And Punk Rock'
Jonathan Coe - 'Middle England'
Jonathan Franzen - 'The Twenty-Seventh City'
JR Moores - 'Electric Wizards'
Kae Tempest - 'The Bricks That Built The Houses'
Ken Kesey - 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'
Kurt Cobain - 'Journals'
Lenny Kaye - 'Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments In Rock & Roll'
Luke Haines - 'Bad Vibes'
Margaret Atwood - 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - 'The Discomfort Of Evening'
Marilyn Johnson - 'The Dead Beat'
Mark Abley - 'Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages'
Martin Amis - 'Money'
Martin Hardy - 'Rafa's Way'
Martin Hardy - 'Touching Distance'
Martin Hardy - 'Tunnel Of Love'
Max Barry - 'Jennifer Government'
Melvyn Bragg - 'The Adventure Of English'
Michael Bracewell - 'Unfinished Business'
Michael Frayn - 'The Trick Of It'
Michael Moore - 'Stupid White Men'
Milan Kundera - 'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'
Nadine Gordimer - 'Selected Stories'
Neil Warnock - 'Made In Sheffield: My Story'
Nick Kent - 'The Dark Stuff'
Noreena Hertz - 'The Silent Takeover'
Richard Evans - 'Listening To The Music The Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983'
Richard McGuire - 'Here'
Richard Norris - 'Strange Things Are Happening'
Richard Phoenix - 'DIY As Privilege: A Manifesto'
Salman Rushdie - 'Fury'
Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward - 'Really Saying Something'
Saul Bellow - 'The Adventures Of Augie March'
Simon Reynolds - 'Rip It Up And Start Again'
Stewart Lee - 'The Perfect Fool'
Sue Hubbard - 'God's Little Artist'
Thomas Pynchon - 'Mason & Dixon'
Thurston Moore - 'Sonic Life: A Memoir' (Buzz)
Thurston Moore - 'Sonic Life: A Memoir' (Punktuation)
Toby Litt - 'I Play Drums In A Band Called okay'
Tom Wolfe - 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities'
Tony Wilson - '24 Hour Party People'
Various - 'Granta: The First Twenty-One Years'
Various - 'Shaggy Blog Stories'
Virginia Woolf - 'Congenial Spirits: Selected Letters'
Will Self - 'Why Read: Selected Writings 2001-2021'
Zadie Smith - 'On Beauty'
Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies - 'Why Do People Hate America?'
Zoe Heller - 'Notes On A Scandal'

Film reviews

'24 Hour Party People'
'A Cock & Bull Story'
'About Schmidt'
'All The Beauty And The Bloodshed'
'Alpha Papa'
'Anorac'
'Anyone Can Play Guitar'
'Apollo 11'
'As Good As It Gets'
'Boiling Point'
'Bowling For Columbine'
'Bridget Jones's Diary'
'Capote'
'Coco'
'Control'
'Deep Listening: The Story Of Pauline Oliveros'
'Diego Maradona'
'DiG!'
'Dumb And Dumber'
'Ed'
'End Of The Century: The Story Of The Ramones'
'Enys Men'
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
'Finding Vivian Maier'
'Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur Jr'
'Galaxy Quest'
'Garden State'
'Good Vibrations'
'Goodbye Lenin'
'Goodnight And Good Luck'
'Grizzly Man'
'Hero'
'Hot Fuzz'
'In Bruges'
'Junebug'
'King Rocker'
'Kurt Cobain: About A Son'
'Lost In France'
'Lost In Translation'
'Marvellous'
'Men'
'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'
'Museum Hours'
'My Wrongs Nos 8245-8249 And 117'
'Napoleon Dynamite'
'Never Let Me Go'
'Offside'
'Once Upon A Time In The Midlands'
'Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode'
'Oxide Ghosts'
'Ray'
'Senna'
'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'
'Shaun Of The Dead'
'She's A Punk Rocker UK'
'Shrek 2'
'Sideways'
'Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain'
'Some Kind Of Monster'
'Sound City'
'Sound It Out'
'Starve Acre'
'Submarine'
'Supersize Me'
'Synecdoche, New York'
'Team America: World Police'
'The Banshees Of Inisherin'
'The Big Lebowski'
'The Devils'
'The Dig'
'The Green Mile'
'The Holy Mountain'
'The Hours'
'The London Perambulator'
'The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King'
'The Master'
'The Proposition'
'The Tourist'
'Thumbsucker'
'Tish'
'Toast'
'Velvet Goldmine'
'Walk The Line'
'What Drives Us'
'You've Been Trumped'
'Young@Heart'
'Zoolander'

Comedy interviews

Richard Herring
Stewart Lee

Comedy features

The state of British sitcoms

Comedy reviews

Brian Butterfield ('The Call Of Now') (07/06/24)
Carey Marx / Bishop & Douch / Nick Page (28/04/08)
Dan Antopolski / Ben Schofield (14/03/06)
Eddie Izzard / Stewart Lee / Ivor Dembina (03/10/08)
Jason Byrne (16/02/05)
John Bishop ('Sunshine')
Juliet Meyers / Holly Walsh / Liz Bentley / Rosie Wilby (04/09/08)
Milton Jones / James Acaster (01/12/11)
Richard Herring ('Someone Likes Yoghurt') (19/01/07)
Richard Herring ('The Headmaster's Son') (26/03/09)
Richard Herring ('The Twelve Tasks Of Hercules') (24/02/05)
Richard Herring / Ben Van der Velde (01/12/08)
Richard Herring / Tom Binns / Gary Bell / Rhodri Rhys (23/03/05)
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast with Charlotte Church and Benjamin Partridge (05/03/24)
Robin Ince ('... Is As Dumb As You') (01/06/07)
Simon Munnery / John Lean (26/01/09)
Steve Coogan ('Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters') (31/10/08)
Stewart Lee ('41st Best Stand-Up Ever!') / Simon Amstell (21/07/07)
Stewart Lee ('90s Comedian') (10/03/06)
Stewart Lee ('Basic Lee') (24/01/23)
Stewart Lee ('Carpet Remnant World') (26/03/12)
Stewart Lee ('If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One') / Tony Law (26/11/09)
Stewart Lee ('Stand-Up Comedian') / Josie Long (01/02/05)
Stewart Lee ('Vegetable Stew') / Simon Munnery (20/10/10)

TV reviews

'63 Up'
'A World Without Down's Syndrome?'
'Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football And Me'
'Alan Shearer's Euro '96: When Football Came Home'
'Arena: Cindy Sherman #untitled'
'Arrested Development'
'Capital'
'Car Share'
'Chasing Dad: A Lifelong Addiction'
'Chris Packham: Asperger's And Me'
'Cuckoo'
'Cunk On Shakespeare'
'Dancing On The Edge'
'Fleabag' (Series 1)
'Fleabag' (Series 2)
'Grayson Perry: All Man'
'Grayson Perry: In The Best Possible Taste'
'Grayson Perry: Who Are You?'
'How TV Ruined Your Life'
'Ian Wright: Home Truths'
'Inside No. 9' (Series 2)
'Inside No. 9' (Series 4)
'It's Kevin'
'James & Jupp'
'Killing Eve' (Series 1)
'Later With Jools Holland'
'Louis Theroux: Altered States'
'Louis Theroux: Dark States'
'Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing'
'Motherland'
'Nathan Barley'
'National TV Awards 2013'
'Nina Conti: Clowning Around'
'Professor Green: Hidden And Homeless'
'Reginald D Hunter's Songs Of The South'
'Rev' (Series 3)
'Stable: The Boxing Game'
'Stewart Lee: Content Provider'
'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle' (Series 1)
'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle' (Series 2)
'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle' (Series 3)
'The League Of Gentlemen' (Series 4)
'The Office' / 'The US Office'
'The Serpent'
'The Thick Of It' (Series 4)
'The Trip To Italy'
'The Wire'
'This Is England '90'
'This Time With Alan Partridge'
'Time'
'Wonderland'

Theatre/opera features/interviews

Gary Owen interview
Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Alan Bennett

Theatre / opera reviews

'Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain'
'Life Of Pi'
Alan Bennett - 'The History Boys'
Bertolt Brecht - 'The Life Of Galileo'
David Hare - 'Racing Demon'
Everyman Theatre Company - 'Blackadder Goes Forth'
Harold Pinter - 'The Birthday Party'
Oscar Wilde - 'The Importance Of Being Earnest'
P G Wodehouse and Guy Burton - 'Come On Jeeves'
P G Wodehouse and the Goodale Brothers - 'Perfect Nonsense'
Reduced Shakespeare Company - 'All The Great Books'
Richard Thomas & Stewart Lee - 'Jerry Springer: The Opera'
Tim Green - 'Housemates'
William Golding - 'Lord Of The Flies'

Art features/interviews

'Key Decisions of Magnum Photographer David Hurn'
Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr on 'June Street, 1973'
Denis O'Regan interview
Glenn Edwards in conversation with David Hurn
Glenn Edwards on 'Route A47zero'
Jon Pountney in conversation
Jon Pountney on 'Wales At The Seaside'
Nathan Wyburn interview
Nick Hedges on 'Home'
Paul Cabuts in conversation
Robin Weaver on 'South Wales In The 1970s'
Workers Gallery Art Box Tour

Art reviews

'Coastal Path'
'David Hurn: Newport'
'David Hurn: Swaps'
'Glam: The Performance Of Style'
'House Of Cards'
'People Power'
'Strange And Familiar'
'Swaps'
'Women In Focus - Part One: Women Behind The Lens'
Antony Gormley - 'Domain Field'
Artes Mundi Prize 2017
August Sander - 'People Of The Twentieth Century'
Bani Abidi - 'Section Yellow'
Bernd & Hilla Becher - 'Industrial Visions'
Catrine Val - 'Kathmandu Girl'
Edward Barber - 'Peace Signs'
Eva Grubinger - 'Dark Matter'
Franki Raffles - 'Photography, Activism, Campaign Works'
Holly Davey, Marko Maetamm and Gaia Persico - 'Innocence And Despair'
Jane and Louise Wilson - 'A Free And Anonymous Monument'
Joanne Coates - 'Middle Of Somewhere'
Jon Pountney - 'Allure Of Ruins'
Martin Parr - 'Martin Parr In Wales'
Martin Parr - 'Return To Manchester'
Mik Critchlow - 'Coal Town'
Mike Kelley and Michael Smith - 'A Voyage Of Growth And Discovery'
Nick Treharne - 'Penarth People'
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris and Mererid Hopwood - 'The Lost Words'
Sebastian Bruno - 'The Dynamic'
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen - 'The Coal Coast'
Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh - 'Delhi: Communities Of Belonging'
Sylvia Sleigh - Retrospective
Tatiana Vinogradova - 'Days Of Melancholy'
Tish Murtha and Anne Worthington, 'A Woman's Work'
Turner Prize 2011
Yann Arthus-Bertrand - 'Earth From The Air'

Art previews

Edgar Martins - 'What Photography & Incarceration Have In Common With An Empty Vase'
Glenn Edwards - 'Route A47zero'
Northern Eye Photography Festival 2021
'Wasteland Of My Fathers'
Workers Gallery October photography exhibitions

Food and drink features/interviews

Outpost
Wine Fiend

Food and drink reviews

Alex Gooch, Cardiff
Ansh, Cardiff
Boomerang Lounge, Cardiff
Bothy Tearoom, Amroth
Bwydiful, Cardiff
Dexters at Brown's, Laugharne
Eat The Bird, Cardiff
Fresh, Cardiff
Goodsheds, Barry
Gorse, Cardiff
Ground, Cardiff
Hills, Brecon
Hoof, Cardiff
Kapow Ribs, Cardiff
La Cuina, Cardiff
La Pantera, Cardiff
Longa, Cardiff
Maasi's, Cardiff
Mindful Chef
Nook, Cardiff
Oasis Cardiff Home Supper Club, Cardiff
Pasture, Cardiff
Pierogi, Cardiff
Romeat, Cardiff
Scruffy Pups, Cardiff
Smokin' Griddle, Cardiff
Spit & Sawdust, Cardiff
Tacos Del Barrio at Neighbourhood, Cardiff
Thai Asian Delish, Cardiff
The Banc, Knighton
The Bear Inn, Lllandovery
The Brass Beetle, Cardiff
The Deri Inn, Cardiff
The Fulling Mill, Tonypandy
The Sloop Inn, Porthgain
The Stowaway, Tenby
Tukka Tuk Canteen, Cardiff
Uisce, Cardiff

Travel diaries

Australia (06/08)
Belgium (08/15)
Cornwall (10/10)
Dubrovnik (04/10)
Europe (07/08)
France (06/13)
France (07/09)
Isle of Man (07/12)
Krakow (03/08)
Nashville (03/20)
New York / Toronto (10/07)
Northern Ireland (08/19)
Northern Ireland (10/03)
Paris (03/06)
Portugal (10/12)
Prague (02/04)
San Francisco (04/18)
South-east Asia (11/11)
Tuscany (05/16)

Reasons To Be Cheerful (Birmingham)

#1 - The Birmingham Book Festival
#2 - The Bartons Arms
#3 - Cold Rice
#4 - The Farmers' Market / The German Christmas Market
#5 - Clare Short MP
#6 - The Sunflower Lounge
#7 - The Electric Cinema
#8 - The REP
#9 - Pork scratchings
#10 - The Anchor Inn
#11 - Cafe Soya
#12 - Guest Contributor Special
#13 - The Actress & Bishop
#14 - The Wellington

Achosion I Laweni (Cardiff)

#1 - Chapter Arts Centre
#2 - Benedito's
#3 - Splott street art
#4 - Ninjah
#5 - Ozone Cafe
#6 - Spillers Records
#7 - The Vegetarian Food Studio
#8 - Shot In The Dark
#9 - The Waterguard
#10 - The Glamorgan Staff Club
#11 - The arcades
#12 - Go Faster Stripe

Reasons To Be Cheerful Part II (Oxford)

#1 - The QI Building
#2 - Pieminister
#3 - The Brewery Tap
#4 - Eggs Eggsetera
#5 - The Jericho Tavern
#6 - The Big Bang
#7 - The Kite
#8 - The Unicorn
#9 - Mission
#10 - Loose Cannon
#11 - The Nag's Head on the Thames
#12 - Children's Centres
#13 - Oxford Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum
#14 - Nightshift
#15 - Mostly Books

Right To Reply

#1 - Nationalism and football
#2 - Glastonbury
#3 - The future of recorded music (Part 1 of 4)
#4 - Poetry: present and future (Part 1 of 2)
#5 - Election special (Part 1 of 5)
#6 - The change to the English licensing laws
#7 - Identity

Guest Blogging Dream Team

Introduction
D H Lawrence
Alan Bennett
Morrissey
Will Self
Chris Morris
Aunt Cyn

Blogs

Acerbia
After The Rat Race
Alcuin And Flutterby
Andy Pryke
An Itinerant Scholar In Brighton
Anthony Is Right
An Unreliable Witness
Are The Stars Out Tonight?
Around The World In 80 Dinners
Assistant
Babylon Wales
Bedsit Bomber
David Belbin
Betty's Utility Room
The Black Dove
Blissblog
Boblog
Bongo Vongo
Boob Pencil
But She's A Girl
Cage Of Monkeys
Close Your Eyes
Conditional Reality
Corporate Anthems
Corpus Obscura
Creepy Lesbo
Crinklybee
Crumbling Loaf
D4D
Delete As Appropriate
Delrico Bandito
The Daily Growl
Deviated Septum
Diamond Geezer
Dies Irae
Ditch Monkey
Don't Go To Vegas
Drawing Moustaches In Magazines
drmigs
Dub Steps
853
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik
The Electric Goose
Excuse Me For Laughing
Exultations & Difficulties
Expecting To Fly
Fat Man In The Bathtub
Fictions
The 15 Minute Hipster
50 Quid Bloke
Fluxblog
Forksplit
48 Percent Cabbage
The 43
Fractionals
Frizzy Logic
Fudge It
Girl With A One-Track Mind
Glamorama
Gliiitches
Gordon McLean
Grayblog
Greavsie
The Hearing Aid
Here's What's Wrong With You
The Highrise
Hint Of Sarcasm
Hold My Life
Hydragenic
I Have Ordinary Addictions
Incredible
Indexed
Invisible Stranger
Itagi
It Always Rains In Wales
It's A Wonderful Life
It's Wrong To Wish On Space Hardware
Jaymaster
Joe. My. God
JonnyB's Private Secret Diary
Kaptain Kobold
Kilroy's Chinos
Kitty Killer
Largehearted Boy
Lex Scripta
Lisa Whiteman
Little Red Boat
London Calling
London Mark
Long Suffering Wife
Look At This...
Lots Of Co
Low Culture
Manchizzle
Mark City
Marshall
Me And My CDs
Me(ish)
The Mighty Love
Minor 9th
Miss Mish
Monkey With A Typewriter
Mo Morgan
Movie Buff
Musings From Middle England
My Boyfriend Is A Twat
Naked Blog
Never Trust A Hippy
New York London Paris Munich
New York Mark
Ninja Polymath Blues
No Rock 'N' Roll Fun
Office Shaped Prison
Oh
Olav Told Me To Do It
One Eyed Man
One Louder
Orbis Quintus
Ortho Bob
Our Man In Hanoi
The Overnight Editor
Parallax View
Paranoid Prom Queen
Pete Ashton's Interweb Presence
Photographs Of Newcastle
Popdizzy
Popjustice
The Quiz Blogger
Random Burblings
Reluctant Nomad
Retro Boy
Rogue Semiotics
Rullsenberg Rules
Said The Gramophone
Sarsparilla
Sashinka
Secret Knowledge Of Backroads
Sevitz Dot Com
Sick Mouthy
Silence Is A Rhythm Too
Smaller Than Life
So Long, Dental Plan
Somedisco
South By South East
Southern Bird
Speaking As A Parent
Stephen Newton's Diary Of Sorts
Still Not Enough Rice Pudding
Stressqueen
Struggling Author
Sweeping The Nation
Swing Batter Batter!
Swisslet
Teaching The Indie Kids To Dance Again
That Difficult Second Blog
This Bogus Poetry
1000 Shades Of Grey
Throughsilver In Blog
Timboland
Tired Dad
Tonto Press Blog
Trabant Driver
Troubled Diva
Ulterior
Vaguely Dot Org
Via Chicago
VP Fanzine
Warming Up
Washing Up
Watski's World
What's New, Pussycat?
Wildly Inaccurate
Wisdomgoof
The World, Backwards
The World Is Full Of Pisswits
The World Of Jill Twiss
Yer Mam!

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