About as much use as …
23
Jul
… a chocolate spanner. Caisse à outils, spied last month through a plate glass window in Perigueux, France.
Category Archives: arts
Bob Dylan – one killer of a poet
17
Jul
When people tell me they can’t stand Dylan, I get it. Really I do. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea. (I know women – white, black, of diverse age – who love Dylan, man and music. None qualify as twenty-four … Read More »
The Fab Four: a very personal view
19
Jan
Born in late 1952, my lifelong love affair with The Beatles was pre-ordained. An early sign came when, on a rainswept night in March ’63, a few pals on a council estate on the cusp of Northern Sheffield, and a … Read More »
Two prose poems
7
Jan
Brecht is powerful but it’s Michael Rosen who captures our zeitgeist.
Peterloo and the Realist tradition
4
Nov
THIS POST ALSO FEATURES IN COUNTERPUNCH and in OffGuardian Worthy, sumptuously shot, convincingly acted and not without moments of insight – but a tad leaden. That’s my take on Mike Leigh’s new film, released November 2. I’ll give a more … Read More »
Give me back my face!
18
Oct
The meaning of life – of love, lust, art and the torn and bleeding heart of Civil War Spain – was ripped out and laid bare last night in this flamenco studded bull roar of a drama at the tiny … Read More »
Papa Soul at the Greystones
5
Aug
Fellow SheffieIders from eighteen to eighty-eight – if you want a great night out with live music from top quality musicians who know how to get folk on the floor and dancing, here’s two city bands guaranteed to deliver. Every … Read More »
Motown Magic comes to Sheffield …
1
Jul
… Saturday night, June 30, in the city’s Botanical Gardens. Then we all went home.
Roger Waters on Palestine
18
May
I’ve admired Pink Floyd for over fifty years, since 1967’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn, but for most of that time neither knew nor cared what their politics were. That they were kind of radical in a petit-bourgeois way … Read More »
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
23
Apr
They say Housman was clinically depressed when he penned the sixty-three poems of his anthology, A Shropshire Lad. But isn’t depression an entry level requirement for poets? Loveliest of trees is the best known poem from those blue remembered hills … Read More »
