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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Legoing ashore

Nice to know that news stories about bodies being washed up on beaches aren't always tragic...

Posted by Ben at 4:45 PM

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Angel Olsen - Big Time
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Safe As Milk
Elder - Innate Passage
Bloody Head - Perpetual Eden
Our Girl - The Good Kind

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'

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

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Arab Strap
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Rich Collins (Cosmic Carnage)
Gindrinker
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Los Campesinos!
Denis O'Regan
Six. By Seven
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... 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
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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
Thank - I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed
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
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The Duke Spirit - Neptune
The Holy Family - The Holy Family
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The Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
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The Lemon Twigs - Songs For The General Public
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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
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Wire - Silver/Lead
Working Men's Club - Fear Fear
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Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
You & The Atom Bomb - Shake Shake Hello?!
Young Knives - Barbarians
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Lovemat - 'Between The Lines'
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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

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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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Summer Sundae 2006 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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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

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Green Man 2019 review

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Green Man 2022 review

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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'
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'
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

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
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'
'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

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

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