There have been two deaths in my life this year. Both Ken Campbell, my former boyfriend, and Sean Blanchard, who I met through Charles Shaar Murray, were found (separately, in Islington and Essex) on Sunday 31st August. Sean was an avowed leftist of anarchist stripe, formidable in his block’s tenants association, a rich assortment of […]
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Rod Bullimore, Anna Chen, Charles Shaar Murray Rod Bullimore, Anna Chen and Matt Price Tonight’s opening (Wednesday 2nd July) of St Ives’s first ever comedy club at the Western Hotel got off to a lively and shambolic start with comics versus hecklers. Talk about clash of cultures! The comics fought back and regained ground but
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EXCLUSIVE TO MADAM MIAOW SAYS — KEEF ENCOUNTERS It’s 1975. The Stones have just released a fairly disappointing album, Black And Blue, and in my capacity as frontline hatchetman for the New Musical Express, I pen a feature-length review making this case at great length. Bearing in mind Mick Jagger’s dictum that he doesn’t care
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