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‘Don’t Ask Yourself Why’: Album interview with Jess Locke.
Jess Locke is an extraordinary talent who first taught herself to play the guitar as a teenager growing up onContinue Reading
A Trip To The Moon (1902): A space odyssey like no other.
It is generally agreed that the birth of film making can be traced back to 1895. In its infancy theContinue Reading
10 Best Songs of The ’80s.
Recently there has been a lot of love going around for music from the 1980s. Interestingly many of today’s musiciansContinue Reading
Classic songs: ‘Supernova’ by Liz Phair.
Something tells me I am going to get in trouble talking about the unapologetic indie-rock rebel Liz Phair. Anyway, hereContinue Reading
Jane Wiedlin’s Excellent Adventure!
Jane Wieldin was amongst the thick of it when LA punk was born in the 1970’s and she helped propelContinue Reading
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: When Ben-Hur first meets Jesus.
There had been nothing like it before with its scale, sweeping scope and spectacle. It smashed box office records andContinue Reading
’80s music nostalgia: World Party, Don Henley and The Rolling Stones.
World Party – ‘Ship of Fools’. Released in 1986, Ship Of Fools on World Party’s debut album, Private Revolution, wasContinue Reading
Classic songs: ‘Smuggler’s Blues’ by Glenn Frey.
There is a great story how show creator Michael Mann heard ex Eagles frontman Glenn Frey’s song Smuggler’s Blues onContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer’ by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1863.
The first truly organised persecution of Christians came after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD under the EmperorContinue Reading
My 10 favourite history books of all time.
I am a proud history geek. In the early 1990s through to the late 2000s I was like a spongeContinue Reading
