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| Hackery The Independent on Sunday Book review The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins (11 April 2010) Book review All My Shows Are Great: the life of Lew Grade by Lewis Chester (21 March 2010) Book review The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996, By John Robb/Factory: The Story of the Record Label, By Mick Middles (7 June 2009) All-original new stuff DVD review: Gary Husband's Force Majeure Live A new release from one of my favourite musicians Radio Times Behind the Scenes: the arts on a shoestring A preview of the National Theatre of Brent's The Arts and How They Was Done (31 March-6 April 2007) The London Line Clueless Charles' Summertime Folly (23 August 2004) The don'ts and don'ts of jazz on television Missing: Shock Jocks who talk sense in the UK (21 April 2005) Mostly about the great Howard Stern, partially about LBC's David Prever and his big gay fixation Peel back to Pure Musical Sensations (28 April 2005) The impossible job of replacing John Peel Never Mind the Ballots (5 May 2005) Staying up all night with an election The fabulous Baker boy (12 May 2005) A recurring theme recurs No Skues is Bad Skues (19 May 2005) Ageism rears its ugly head in East Anglia Zeroes, heroes and ones (26 May 2005) DAB digital radio not actually CD quality shocker A hotline from God (2 June 2005) A despatch from the arse-end of religious broadcasting Formby follows function (9 June 2005) Turned out nice again... The Spectator Out of tune with the times (24 July 2004) The game's fucked...you want a clip on that record industry (Apologies to Bob Mills) Literary Review From here to modernity (July 2004) A review of a rather good, if ruinously expensive book on the architect Erno Goldfinger The Oldie Modern Life - What is...Spam? (November 2002) The New Statesman Night waves - (26 November 2001) In which I confess "to sleeping around with nocturnal DJs" Fluff on the side - (14 January 2002) An essay "on the inimitable style of Aussie expat DJ Alan Freeman" To Russia with Love (4 February 2002) How the World Service took the work of the great songwriters to the Eastern Bloc Wireless Wise - (18 February 2002) This one's about "how TV killed the radio stars", apparently Jazz treasury - (4 March 2002) The three Kennys - Clarke, Clarke and Baker The Currie Club - (c. April 2002) What I really said about Edwina Currie Baker's doze-in (22 April 2002) An unashamed bit of fan worship New discoveries - (6 May 2002) For which I listened "to some old stories recorded in the sixpence-a-go booth" Local heroes (3 June 2002) Evidence of my unnatural enthusiasm for local radio, whether it's local to me or not Crystal set (17 June 2002) In which I go off on one about the poor sound quality offered by many digital radio stations QM RIP on VHF and MW - (never published) Radio coverage of the Queen Mother's death |
Welcome to the section of this site reserved
for examples of my journalism. They have been posted here partially for
your edification and partially to reduce the number of dog-eared
magazines in my house. When I get a moment, I'm going to wade through my copies of the Radio Times and scan all my radio featurettes. I'll also dredge up some of the Private Eye Books and Bookmen items that still seem vaguely relevant and interesting. The whole Waterstone's saga might be worth revisiting. The New Statesman stuff dates from the brief, but glorious period when I reviewed radio for them. It was an enjoyable little job and I was sad when it came to an end. The same goes for the London Line, which was a good idea as Rupert Murdoch's lot are currently proving. We didn't have his backing, though, so we folded after just 3 months. Bah. |
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