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Michaelmas And Me: Hangovers, Rampant Mentalism and GTA IV
2007-04-03 23:31:00 This week, the phrase “taking a quick stroll around Hangover square” entered common parlance (for me, anyway). Tingling with alcoholic regret, it is the sentence which best defines Patrick Hamilton’s masterpiece novel, the name of which is drawn from the aforementioned quote. The story of schizophrenic George Harvey Bone, it centres largely around the drunken ... More About: Mental , Men , Michael , Over , Menta
The Rest Of The Internet: 2ch
2007-04-03 18:31:00 The Inter net has a secret. A secret that makes no effort at all to hide itself, but by its very nature will always remain a secret. This secret is very powerful, so powerful that it crashed the American magazine Time, created a popular motion picture and has destroyed and created many celebrities; so powerful that ... More About: Rest , The Internet , Intern
Frank?s Travels: Cramps And Cold Sweats
2007-04-01 16:07:00 It is a strange coincidence that, in this country, whenever I have been heading south I have been ill and whenever I have gone back north I have got better. Were I a superstitious man, I would take this as a sign and stop my gradual quest toward Mauritania and head back north to the ... More About: Travel , Travels , Rank , Cold , Rave
A Sunshine Experience: Hello To You, Nun Of The Above
2007-03-31 10:00:00 A post rock band new to the London scene, their debut, Nun, has been released on the Wupa Dupa label (a collective of new artists from London whose catalogue ranges from twee folk to post-rock). There appears to be nothing immediately interesting about Nun Of The Above upon first listen; however, progressing deeper into the ... More About: Experience , Sunshine , Shine , Hell , Hello
The Roaming Football Column
2007-03-31 01:37:00 This week the Roam ing Football Column is slumming it with a guesting from a self confessed football-wary-writer. Of course, I do really enjoy quality football; but this week will focus on England’s 2008 qualifier matches against Israel and Andorra, which, for all of you who have been living in a cave for the past ... More About: Ball
The Boy With The Letterbox For A Mouth - A Short Film
2007-03-30 00:03:00 “Here’s another from James, Mark and Will” More About: Film , With , Letter , The Boy , Mouth
The New Music Column: The Start Of Something
2007-03-29 21:02:00 Bonjour, wie gehts, and welcome to the first edition of the imaginatively titled ‘new music column’. Each week I will present several new, exciting and vaguely similar bands each week, all under the banner of what you might call ‘indie’. More About: Music , The N , Methi , Start , Star
The Hashmark Week 29/3/07 With What?s Hot What?s Not
2007-03-29 09:00:00 A word from the editor concerning the current state of affairs: Well, it’s been a good week, but the Sauce is still notable by its absence. I call on everyone to nag, annoy and cajole Pascoe until he gets on with it; it seems he has reverted to his useless former self. But there’s been ... More About: With , What , Hat , Week , Mark
The Andy Lectures: Avant Garde Pt. 1
2007-03-28 09:23:00 Apologies for no Andy Lectures column last week. Back on track now with a two part look at the bonkers world of Avant Garde cinema. Very few prints have been made of the films we saw this week; probably because they were, for the most part, frankly, unwatchable. Projected for us off of actual film reels ... More About: Avant-Garde , The A
Michaelmas and Me: Skywalks, Slavery and Steve McLaren
2007-03-28 00:14:00 Michaelmas and Me - the new name for Cultural Meanderings. It has nothing to do with the Christian calendar - it’s merely a reference to my favourite cafe. I seem to remember that at the end of last week’s piece I mentioned that Jim Morrison would be the subject of this article; he won’t. I will, ... More About: Steve , Slavery , Michael , Laren , Mich
I Understand How, But I Don?t Understand Why #3
2007-03-27 20:41:00 A collective mumbling with jr2015 - “Save the Cheerleader, Save the world” I was moaning the other day that British television has become really awful recently but really, it was a foolhardy comment. The Beeb is still the worlds greatest television network even though the BBC Three experiment may be faltering and its budget has been reigned ... More About: Understand , Under , Stand
Trumpeter: The EU - An Ode To Joy
2007-03-27 00:07:00 First I would like to apologise for this being a day late - losing my baggage in a coach station outside Marrakech has consumed my time. I have always disliked anniversaries, feeling that if something is good, its goodness speaks for itself regardless of any arbitrary landmark. So, the fact that the European Union is fifty ... More About: Trumpeter , Trump , Pete , Peter , Trumpet
The Arty Bit: Ah Bliss, Egon Schiele
2007-03-26 00:12:00 As many of you may have noticed, my past few articles have mainly been concerned with the Young British Artist?s movement. However, dear readers, this week I find myself awake at some dark hour between one and two a.m. on the night of the daylight savings time changeover ? a time, it appears, that does ... More About: The A
Around and About - Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, Phoenix Arts Centre, Exete
2007-03-25 09:11:00 The video above is a short snippet of Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid from the first date on the Tongues promotional tour. Although it exhibits the typically shaky style of the youtube bootleg, I hope it does give a feeling of the intensity of the performance and the mental connection between the duo. The night ... More About: Phoenix , Arts , Cent , About
A Sunshine Experience: I?d Like To Know David Blue
2007-03-24 09:00:00 Seeing as he was from the same scene Bob Dylan hailed from, the New York Greenwich Village folk scene, there are clear similarities in style. The album, simply called David Blue , was released in 1966, shortly after Dylan?s release of Blonde on Blonde, and there is a similar surf garage folk sound. However, there are ... More About: Experience , Sunshine , Shine
The Roaming Football Column: ?Accrington Stanley? Who Are They?!?
2007-03-23 17:25:00 This week it has, at times, seemed as though all eyes are on England’s seemingly crucial international encounter with Israel. But the domestic game hasn’t passed me by entirely; of all the fixtures played this week, Manchester United and Chelsea’s received the most coverage (of course); at this stage in the league calendar, everyone, regardless of ... More About: Football , They , Stanley , Column , Ring
Signs - A Short Film
2007-03-23 10:50:00 “We filmed this on a whim, then experimented with the footage in the edit. Unlike our previous Hashmark films, it has no narrative or characters, but is extremely cool. We think.” By Will Darkin, Mark Turnock and James Price. More About: Film , Signs , Sign , Short , Short Film
The Hashmark Week 22/3/07 With What?s Hot, What?s Not
2007-03-22 17:05:00 A word from the editor concerning the current state of affairs: The Roaming Football Column, since it moved to Fridays, has proved a success: “This week has been a good week” Thanks for that Ben, you seem to be doing my job for me. In addition to the quality material, we seem to have been converting some ... More About: With , What , Hat , Week , Mark
Cultural Meanderings: McQueen, Kapuscinski And ?Zeitgeisting It Up?
2007-03-20 09:00:00 By way of an introduction, I apologise for the absence of this column last week. Coming up with a themed stream of consciousness can be a tricky business sometimes. Last Tuesday I was travelling, and I’ve been unable to do it since due to my fiscal wranglings with Intek Communications SW, who have pressganged me ... More About: Cult , Cultura , Ring , Queen , Rings
Frank?s Travels
2007-03-17 13:44:00 NEW!A Hashmark correspondent’s adventures in Morocco: There are benefits both to traveling alone and to traveling in company. There is, however, only one way to describe the transition from one to the other: unpleasant. First comes denial. Unable to come to terms with the lack of companionship and irked by that dead end that comes directly after ... More About: Travel , Travels , Rank , Rave , Fran
The Roaming Football Column: A Stumble Through Everything Football This Wee
2007-03-16 19:05:00 This week has been a good week. Us English love an underdog, and this has been one of those fantastic weeks when lots of struggling sides have achieved more than they would have expected. Watford, facing relegation in the Premiership, reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup. Leeds, bottom of the Championship, won a much ... More About: Football , Stumble , This , Column , Roaming
Around and About - at the Arcade Fire, Manchester Apollo 09/03/07
2007-03-15 22:30:00 This blogular commentary really is a bit late for some kind of post gig review; but this is because of the wait for the marvelous person only known to myself as Youtube user Steve452 to post this accompanying video of the final encore song Wake Up, from the Funeral LP. Witness many hundreds of people ... More About: Arcade , Poll , Manchester , About , Arcade Fire
The Hashmark Week 15/3/07
2007-03-15 16:17:00 A word from the editor concerning the current state of affairs: I have to admit, things have been a little bit slack this week. I got home from Morocco on Tuesday, we’ve had some missed deadlines and everything just seems to have been a bit half-arsed. But don’t worry - things are on the up. ... More About: Week , Mark
Bikes - A Short Film
2007-03-15 09:00:00 ?If you’ve never read the third policeman, this will seem absolutely original.” By Will Darkin, Mark Turnock and James Price. More About: Film , Bike , Bikes , Short , Short Film
The Andy Lectures: Now Voyager and Other Films
2007-03-14 15:47:00 No link this week; no overriding theme to bind together the disparate remnants of this article. Except that all the films had women in them. Does that count? I suspect not. The main feature of this weeks lecture was Irving Rapper?s 1942 Bette Davis classic Now, Voyager, a tale of psychology, romance, and Claude ... More About: Film , Films , Lectures , Other , Andy
A Sunshine Experience: The Neil Cowley Trio Displace Time
2007-03-14 15:39:00 On a lazy afternoon, sat in the park sun beating down, I flick through the Phoenix?s gig guide for the coming months, I stumbled across a genius on the piano: Neil Cowley has done session work with Zero 7 and Gabrielle, and was a child prodigy, playing Shostakovich at the Queen Elizabeth Hall when ... More About: Time , The N , Experience , Sunshine
The Arty Bit: The Chapman Brothers ? Two Faced Cunts?
2007-03-13 14:35:00 I was busy preparing a soufflé last Thursday when my mind found itself meandering towards the Hashmark in a particularly round-about way, and I realised with a shock I had yet to come to a decision about what this week?s Arty Bit should be about. It had to be someone exciting, of course, controversial, preferably ... More About: Brothers , Other , Others , Cunts , Face
Trumpeter: The Republicans in ?08
2007-03-11 15:02:00 The Republican s may look like a faltering party with little chance of winning the presidency, having lost their twelve-year-long grip on Congress and sporting (polls tells us) the third least popular President ever. If we were talking about a prime-ministerial system like the UK or Germany, where party leaders tend to be established figures, already in ... More About: Public , Trumpeter , Trump
The Roaming Football Column: Dave Loses The Plot (And His Place)
2007-03-10 06:11:02 A special edition of The Roaming Football Column outside of its usual Wednesday slot. When David Beckham announced in January this year that he would be leaving Real Madrid for Los Angeles Galaxy, he crossed a line. At Real, he was (I suppose technically still is) receiving money for services rendered to one of the most important, prestigious football clubs in the world; at LA Galaxy, he will be receiving money simply for his presence, for his status, for his position as a tool of corporate marketing. By whoring himself out to the highest, most glamorous bidder, he has finally proved himself to be completely irrelevant. Anyone with even a passing interest in football should forget he ever participated in the professional game, wipe him clean from their memories and commit themselves to a footballing future devoid of ?Becks? and his strutting, nauseating persona. (more…) More About: Dave , Place
The Hashmark Week 8/3/07
More articles from this author:2007-03-08 12:08:05 A word from the editor concerning the current state of affairs: This week has seen a flurry of activity - on Monday and Tuesday alone we had six new posts, including our first short film, ‘Pancake Day’: “Genius.” - Pascoe (Read all the comments here) (more…) More About: Week , Mark 1, 2, 3 |
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