Archive for October, 2009
|Nursery rhymes: RIP?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Could be, and it’s all the fault of us rock-fixated thirtysomething groovers. As this piece from The Guardian suggests, there’s “a whole cast of characters, herded towards the cultural knacker’s yard like the cast of a geriatric Toy Story: Humpty Dumpty, Goosey Goosey Gander, the Grand Old Duke of York, Jack and Jill, a handful of mangy-looking black sheep and poor old Little Miss Muffet, clinging fretfully to her ‘tuffet’.”
Tags: nursery rhymes
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Conservative conference
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
A laugh, as usual: 3 more films and a wealth of blogging, as the Tories prepare for power. It’s all here, with the Labour and Lib Dem stuff.
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John's Books
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Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll:
The Ultimate Guide to the Music, the Myths and the Madness
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"The Dark Side of the Moon":
The Making of the "Pink Floyd" Masterpiece
So Now Who Do We Vote For?
The Last Party:
Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock
Britpop:
Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock
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Kirstie Allsopp and all that
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
This one created a slight stink: a piece in The Guardian about the social tribe surrounding David Cameron, and how they just might rub a lot of people up the wrong way…
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