Francis Plug – How To Be A Public Author (Galley Beggar Press, 2014)
This isn’t a review really, just a straight up recommendation. I love this book. It is very good. I think that if you read it you will enjoy it. I’m
What I learned from watching every Jason Statham movie. Part Five: The One.
The One is a parallel universes film. So (and let’s try to keep this brief) there are 124 universes that make up the multiverse. Loads (or possibly one) of those
Ten little things that are helping a lot…
Really big, commercial albums. Abba Gold, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Abbey Road. Normally I wouldn’t reach for them very often, but having a bit of a sing is a nice
Birds from your window. Collared Dove.
OK newly-fledged bird nerds, let me blow your mind: THERE WERE NO COLLARED DOVES IN THE UK BEFORE THE 1950s. I know. Head, boom! Am I right? Yep. The UK
Ben’s Brilliant Best Albums of the 1990s. No. 77. Kerbdog – On the Turn
Kilkenny’s greatest rock band, Kerbdog should have been massive but weren’t. Like quite a few bands in the 1990s, they signed with a major record label and things went badly.
Ben’s Brilliant Best Albums of the 1990s. No. 78. Dream Warriors – And Now the Legacy Begins
Confession time… OK… so… I know De La Soul were smarter and A Tribe Called Quest were better and yeah, of course, other bands were other things too but… when
OK, this is a thing now. So let’s do bands beginning with A from ‘the rest of the world’.
Yesterday was such a success that I thought I would do it all over again. This time I listened to bands beginning with A that aren’t from Europe. I think
