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Monday, May 24, 2010

VERNACULAR BOOK PUBLICATION WEEK

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  This week sees the publication of my book on Vernacular Architecture by Thames & Hudson in the UK. To follow are the US and Italia...
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Sunday, May 09, 2010

BOHO IN LONDON

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Our band BOHO is playing the first gig in London in its10-year history, as part of the ‘Dissenters Gallery’ season at The Inn on the Gree...

ON BEING 60

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Performing live at Birthday Bash at Con Club, Lewes, on 30th April. Poem written specially for the occasion.         ON BEING 6...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

CULT BOOKS: ARTHUR A. COHEN

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Photo: Snelson I have become fascinated by the novels of Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986)  and increasingly intrigued about this man’s life ...

MUSIC NEWS: HITCHCOCK, ARMATRADING, COODER

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Caught Robyn Hitchcock on top form live in Brighton’s  Komedia. Saw him last time round with Venus 3 featuring two members of REM. I’m a lat...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

BARRY MILES: BOSWELL OF THE UNDERGROUND

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This chunky portmanteau of a book is the latest  addition to  a whole shelf of works by one of the great chroniclers of post-1945 undergr...
Friday, April 23, 2010

THINKING OF PAUL

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  Readng the web and watching the street send-off for Malcom McLaren in Camden reminded me of the farewell given to Paul Wheeler – Sex ...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

THINKING ABOUT DENNIS HOPPER

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I’m sitting here thinking about Dennis Hopper right now. Good to find this great piece The Middle Word in Life What we think about w...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

NME ARCHIVE: PINK FLOYD PIG

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This post is inspired by this editorial cartoon in The Guardian by the great and wonderful Steve Bell on the occasion of the launch of the ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

UK ELECTION: TIME FOR A CHANGE

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Poster by the excellent Beau Bo D’or. See his great site. Blah, blah, blah. The gruesome spectacle of seeing three political parties al...

WIKILEAKS

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The emergence of the WikiLeaks site into public prominence – as a self-styled intelligence agency for the people, making public secret...
Friday, April 09, 2010

MALCOLM McLAREN: Rascal In Perpetuity

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Malcolm with Wild Strawberries, an all-female band of Chinese rockers. 2004 Source: Pittimmagine “Malcolm McLaren was such a marvelou...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

THE GENERALIST: NEWS DIGEST 1

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This is a new feature aimed at keeping up with the sharp increase in information, stories and feedback coming into The Generalist's post...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

CHARLIE GILLETT: A TRIBUTE

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Photo: Philip Ryalls Not since the death of John Peel, has the passing of a DJ been so widely mourned. The tributes to this man have po...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

INSIDE DOPE: THE SECRETS OF THE OPIUM POPPY

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University of Calgary plant biochemist Peter Facchini with research opium poppies. (Credit: Ken Bendiktsen, University of Calgary) Peter...