THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP OR A DATE WITH FATE? First things first, let’s take a quick look at my and probably some of you reader’s knowledge of Casablanca or indeed Morocco. There’s that film, yes, I’ll get onto that below. What else? There’s Sebastian Flyte slowly killing himself with booze and looking worse […]
IT WAS JUST A SIMPLE THOUGHT On May 17th, 2023 I attended a talk at the Academy of Ideas in London where Jack pondered his life as a musician. This was also recorded on Soundcloud – don’t know if it’s still there but if it is you’ll hear me ask him about Ornamental Elephant. I […]
Nostalgic Girl was written in Cardiff, most likely in 2007 while I was working on Beats Per Minute and SE. NG didn’t fit in either so it was one of those stand alone titles I had – there are many others and I will be publishing some of those on the blog in due course. […]
*This is another newbie, if you’re a fan of The Police, and Duran Duran, you may like it 😉 The monorail darted beneath the concrete overpass through the night sky above him as he lumbered toward the entrance of the Hotel in this hot, humid, dark and dingy metropolis. His bags in hand were weighing […]
Lying on the bed he read the code out aloud before scrunching the loose bit of paper up and throwing it at the small bin in the corner of the room with a curse ‘what a load of f**king bollocks.’ He said to himself. ‘I can’t believe I’m actually doing this’ he further chastised himself. […]
*This is a slightly modified version from the original in Mezzanine Smile and the version in Dating the Page. I think it works better from the view of a writer now 25 years’ down the track from its original outing. The scent hung in the late summer evening air.An enigmatic aroma; sweet but not too […]
A lot happened in China. I took photos of buildings, food, and urban art without realising I was starting anything, but start something I was. What was urban art? Psychogeography, or Dark tourism? The first known image of urban art for me came from Shenzhen towards the end of my tenure in China (2017). Back […]
HOUSE For those that haven’t read the Tim Bowness blog, I’ve been listening to No-Man for over 30 years now. Housekeeping is in typical no-man fashion, not a boxset but a bookset says the press, collecting the bands early albums on One Little Indian, as well as singles, and radio sessions which I had back […]
In the future after communism, capitalism, leaders, populist leaders, tyrants, and many wars it is decided that in order to stop mankind’s stupidity the remaining people should throw caution to the wind and appoint an elected head, something wholesome and indeed more fluffy to look up to and respect and to restore world order. Slowly […]
A quick note on this blog, I am not an overtly political writer, however sometimes you need to speak (why else have a blog?) So in this biggest election year on the planet, let me speak a little about our own isle. By the way the photos above are not my own on this occasion, […]
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