From a Guardian piece about Richard Burton’s Hamlet. “[Burton] is the production’s raison d’etre. You see that when he makes his first upstage entrance and gets a big round of applause: mind you so do all the […]

Amen to that.

That reminds me of a similar thing. The question was, ‘Who directed True Romance?’ and I could barely conceal my glee as other teams busied themselves writing ‘Quentin Tarantino’ because I knew it was a trick […]

For me Don Winslow is quite literally the Don. Also shout out for the works of S Craig Zahler, perhaps better known as the director of movies Bone Tomahawk, Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl in Cell Block 99. […]

Pleasure! Also, love the new Poison Ivy profile pic.

Vera Sola, see review!

Tsk! I’ve seen James a number of times, and on each occasion Booth’s made a point of saying that they play a different set each night.

The answer is River Deep, Mountain High, surely? I mean, is there a better song than that?

I distinctly remember being made to to feel a bit prudish and like I was buying into the tabloid hysteria when I was shocked by the whole Sachsgate thing. And — ready Black Celeb — it was the VERY SAME PEOPLE […]

Kirsty MacColl on everything, especially Hallelujah, Ask, Interesting Drug.

I only recently found out that Mick Jagger is on You’re So Vain, and listening to it now I wonder why I never heard it before. (Not pointless or irritating though. Actually brill.)

Johnny Marr on almost anything, from Electronic onwards. How can you form a group with the best guitarist of his generation and have him be totally anonymous!?

Woah, reading through I’m amazed at the amount of hate.

As I’m always telling my kids, ‘It’s only an opinion.’

Attracted by the fact that Morrissey and Flowered Up were supporting, I went to that gig. It took me by surprise that Madness had such a lairy, skinhead crowd. They were very much a pop band in my eyes.

Both are mine, both unaccountably rejected by the editor. And I’m still sore about it years later.

On a piece about a videogame featuring a ferret (at the height of Oasis mania): Mad Ferret.

On a story […]

There’s a three-part TV version of this on Netflix right now.: Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99. Well worth seeing. There’s tons of stuff that isn’t in the film, especially involving Fatboy Slim’s set and the final riot.

Underrated post.

I liked it, but not as much as I expected or hoped. The main problem for me was having it narrated by Tom Parker. For a start, why create an extra layer between the viewer and the best performance of the year, and […]

I can name any James Bond novel just from its opening line.