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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

"Oh Jesus, I'm never drinking ever again..."

Courtesy of The Whole Wide World Of Fat Buddha! comes a link to an invaluable internet resource for anyone who, like myself, often finds themselves incapacitated for days at a time after protracted drinking sessions. Happy boozing!
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  • Queens Of The Stone Age / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Vendetta Red (29/10/02)
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  • Rays / Goodbye Sergeants / Confrontiers / Patti Plinko And Her Boy / Lily Green (23/09/07)
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  • Ryley Walker / Sonny Winnebago (03/09/22)
  • Sacred Paws / Spinning Coin / Neurotic Fiction (19/02/17)
  • Sennen / Matt Winkworth (06/05/10)
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  • Sigur Ros / Amina (14/11/05)
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  • 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)
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  • The Fiery Furnaces / Sons & Daughters / Red Organ Serpent Sound (26/08/04)
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  • The Light Era / Jetlag / Augustine / StrangeTime (03/11/05)
  • The Little Unsaid / Waltz In The Shallow End (07/03/15)
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  • The St Pierre Snake Invasion / Cassels (02/10/19)
  • The Thurston Moore Band / Hannah Lou Clark (10/05/15)
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  • 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)
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  • Threatmantics / Silent Forum / Joel Hurst (22/02/19)
  • Trash Fashion / The Pubic Fringe / Motorcycle Stunts (06/12/05)
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  • Tricot / False Hope For The Savage (29/08/17)
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  • 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)
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  • Wylderness / Gindrinker (30/05/25)
  • 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

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  • Blanck Mass (03/12/19)
  • Bob Vylan (17/05/22)
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  • 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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Southsea Fest 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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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

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Green Man 2019 review

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Green Man 2023 review

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Green Man 2024 review

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Festival previews

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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'
  • Brian Wilson RIP
  • 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
  • Marcus Russell talk
  • 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
  • Steve Albini 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'
  • Colson Whitehead - 'The Underground Railroad'
  • 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'
  • Dan Richards - 'Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories after Dark'
  • 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 Hurn - 'Wales As Is'
  • 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 - 'If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things'
  • 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'
  • Keith Cameron - '168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure: A History Of Manic Street Preachers'
  • Ken Kesey - 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'
  • Kurt Cobain - 'Journals'
  • Leah Kardos - 'Hounds Of Love'
  • Lenny Kaye - 'Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments In Rock & Roll'
  • Luke Haines - 'Bad Vibes'
  • Margaret Atwood - 'The Handmaid's Tale'
  • Marie Gardiner - 'Changing Landscapes: Ruins Of The North Pennines'
  • 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'
  • Meredith Miller - 'Cold Grace'
  • 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'
  • Paul Morley - 'Far Above The World: The Time And Space Of David Bowie'
  • 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'
  • Rose Keating - 'Oddbody'
  • Sally Rooney - 'Conversations With Friends'
  • Salman Rushdie - 'Fury'
  • Sam Tallent - 'Running The Light'
  • 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 McMullan - 'Groundwater'
  • 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'
  • 'A Real Pain'
  • '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'
  • 'Ernest Cole: Lost And Found'
  • 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
  • 'Finding Vivian Maier'
  • 'Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur Jr'
  • 'Galaxy Quest'
  • 'Garden State'
  • 'Good Vibrations'
  • 'Goodbye Lenin'
  • 'Goodnight And Good Luck'
  • 'Grenfell'
  • 'Grizzly Man'
  • 'Hero'
  • 'Hot Fuzz'
  • 'I Am Martin Parr'
  • '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'
  • 'Nosferatu'
  • '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 Ballad Of Wallis Island'
  • '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'
  • 'We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC'
  • '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?'
  • 'Adolescence'
  • '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'
  • 'Mr Loverman'
  • '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 Virtues'
  • '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'
  • Tim Price - 'Nye'
  • William Golding - 'Lord Of The Flies'

Art features/interviews

  • 'Key Decisions of Magnum Photographer David Hurn'
  • Angela Christofilou on 'Church Bingo'
  • 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'
  • Mohamed Hassan on 'Our Hidden Room'
  • Nathan Wyburn interview
  • Nick Hedges on 'Home'
  • Paul Cabuts in conversation
  • Photography and the Valleys panel discussion
  • Robin Weaver on 'South Wales In The 1970s'
  • Signatures: Robert Greetham on 'Rites And Traces' and David Hurn on 'On Reading'
  • 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'
  • 'Picture Post: A Twentieth-Century Icon'
  • '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'
  • Eye Festival 2025
  • 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'
  • Letizia Battaglia - 'Life, Love And Death In Sicily'
  • Marc Davenant - 'Outsiders'
  • 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
  • Hiraeth, Cardiff
  • 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 Old Point House, Angle
  • 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)
  • Rome (05/25)
  • 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

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  • Alan Bennett
  • Morrissey
  • Will Self
  • Chris Morris
  • Aunt Cyn

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