Alan Mitchell’s Ipswich posse yesterday at Manor Park cemetary, along with nearly a couple of hundred mourners, witnessing him being laid to rest in a spectacular pan-African ceremony. The rain sheeted down in the kind of perfect Pathetic Fallacy weather that Alan would have struck out as a cliché had anybody been sufficiently corny to […]
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Liz Chi Yen Liew and Dennis Lee Last night’s Dislocating Asia event at The Forge in Camden was more than a whole heap of fun: it was significant in showcasing a variety of top East Asian talent without a hint of faux orientalism. We were the cool kids (okay, we were the rebels smoking fags
Dear lord …! A working-class BAME woman of colour, I am evidently a child in need of white commentators protecting me with “trigger warnings” on book covers in case my delicate sensibilities are offended by sexist, homophobic, racist content. “Look, here I am, the good fairy, here to protect you while, incidentally, shutting you up.”
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Only a few more days of the Early Bird price on Charles Shaar Murray’s essential Hothouse writing course in leafy West Hampstead. Learn from the mahstah! Legendary writer Charles Shaar Murray teaches his essential “Journalism as Craft and Art” writing masterclasses in north London. He shares rigorous, hard-headed journalistic craft to bring literary quality into even
Bessie Smith, “Empress of the Blues” Today live at 5pm on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, Charles Shaar Murray concludes his Guide to the Blues with Part 3, The Women of the Blues. Presented by Anna Chen with Charles Shaar Murray. Guest: Sarah Gillespie. Today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge of the series wraps
Women of the Blues on today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, 5pm Read More »
The great rock photographer Chalkie Davies was reunited with his old NME mucker, the great music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, when we visited him at his exhibition at London’s Snap Gallery last week. All the photographs evoke the age of the Clash, the Sex Pistols, David Bowie and Mick Ronson, Blondie, The Specials whose Jerry
