Tag Archives for journalist
Star in a reasonably priced car
‘What is it with that corner?’ ‘I dunno, I just don’t like it.’ If you can, download this week’s Top Gear, starring Michael Gambon in the reasonably priced car part of the show. He previously appeared on the fourth ever … Continue reading
That old chestnut again
We (I’m talking we as in work, not we as in ‘the u2log team’ or, ‘the whedonesque.com team’, or ‘me, myself and my royal I’) launched a new version of one of our most succesful sites yesterday and held a … Continue reading
Scum
There’s a Nick Cave song called ‘Scum’ which is about NME journalist Mat Snow (whom he was sharing a flat with at the time) because he wrote a bad review. If I were a songwriter, I’d write a song like … Continue reading
Two sides of the same coin
This week I’m mostly going to be… …mother goose-ing two seemingly unrelated interviews done for two of my sites. Although the interviews are unrelated, the people interviewed have known each other since the late 70s and it is likely that … Continue reading
Who
Anger made him rich. Sean O’Hagan talks to Pete Townshend. Great interview. (Is Sean O’Hagan the journalist the same man as Sean O’Hagan the musician? I’ve never been able to verify.)
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