Charles Shaar Murray

Charles Shaar Murray’s Hothouse Journalism course returns to north London

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Or learn how to pimp your prose. Legendary author and journalist Charles Shaar Murray’s excellent Hothouse Project “Journalism as Art and Craft” writing classes return to north London in September for eight weeks. CSM has been dubbed “the rock writers’ rock writer” and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge over his four decade career which […]

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Crosstown Lightnin’ “Werewolves of London” at the Black Velvet

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A culture-rammed week began with Crosstown Lightnin’ at the Black Velvet club in West Kensington last Saturday 18th May, supporting Bex Marshall and her band. Here’s Crosstown Lightnin’s encore with special guest Stephen Dale Petit. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles play “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon. Video by

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Crosstown Lightnin’ and Bex Marshall at Black Velvet: pix

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Crosstown Lightnin’ played their first gig in a while, the first of many more the way things are looking. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bll Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles were tight as a gnat’s bum and rocked the swanky new W14 venue, Black Velvet, with their punky blues. Bex Marshall headlined with her 4-piece

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A Dame of Thrones: Bowie weekender at the V&A Museum with Charles Shaar Murray and Barry Miles

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My birthday celebrations (30th April, if you really must buy me a drink) got off to a cracking start on Saturday with the Bowie weekender and two days of mostly free events at the V&A museum augmenting their stunning Bowie Is exhibition. Charles Shaar Murray and Barry Miles gave four talks on the 1960s counter-culture

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An afternoon with Wilko Johnson: Charles Shaar Murray interviews his mate

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Spent Tuesday afternoon with one of the two most beautiful men in rock ‘n’ roll, the other one being David Bowie. Three if you include the lovely Charles Shaar Murray who I drove through the snow to Wilko Johnson’s house in Southend. We found him in awesome mood for a man who’s just announced he

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