Your roving cultural correspondant has been out and about in the field this week charting developments in film and sound. Well, I’ve been to see Spiderman 2, listened to some new albums and watched a few DVDs.
I’m mightily hung-over today. Tebbutt and Hickman plied me with ale, then taxi-d me over to Junktion 7 for some hot thrash-punk girl action.
So, that was Glastonbury 2004. Around 120,000 revellers enduring sleep deprevation, come-ups and downs, 1000s of performers and everything the weather could throw at us. Probably my favourite Glasto thus far, thanks in part to the volume of friends around me, two days of intense sunshine and some incredibly powerful music.
I’m absolutely appalled that Andy Clarke and Lee Hickman have colluded to give me a three-match ban from the Brit Blogger Squad.
Enjoy the moment, they say. Rutter, Scrivens, Hickman, Malarkey and Tebbutt are all lagging behind in the Euro 2004 Fantasy Football Blogger’s League.
The state of magazine publishing in the UK is in serious limbo. People simply do not need to pay four quid a month to find out what’s going on - not now we have the web at our fingertips.
I feel compelled to help raise collective spirits after last night’s mugging at the hands of the French team. Last night we sat there shell-shocked after the Gallic ones had pulled two goals out of nothing in the final three minutes of the game.
Apologies to all readers across the pond. I’m going to write about football (soccer - the one without padding). Euro 2004 begins on the 12th June, and I’m as excited as a squirrel during nut-fall. Why am I so excited this time around? Well, England could actually win…
I’ve just been to see former Blur guitar-botherer Graham Coxon playing live at a packed Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. The quiet one was actually pretty loud, and had the demeanour of a man unshackled. The gig was by no means perfect, but old Coxon certainly let it rip.
You Are Here is currently in the process of selecting an illustrator to help promote this year’s visual arts festival. Last year it was Nottingham’s number one idiosyncratic illustration machine Jon Burgerman who produced some joyful little characters for the publicity material.
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