WILDE AT HEART?

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I went to see the Swinging Blues Jeans, Marty Wilde and the Alan Price Set last week. There, that’s attracted your attention, and probably your derision, but for the moment, consider this. In early June I mentioned, with barely contained … Continue reading

Toff Rockers

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A few months ago, my friend and near neighbour, Geoff Haslam, casually mentioned that he was about to produce some tracks for Loyd Grossman. Yep, that’s the pasta saucemeister, Through the Keyhole Loyd Grossman and he of the tortured diction … Continue reading

Brown Nosing

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Like any grumbling old hippie dissatisfied with the status quo (but not, of course, Status Quo) I’ve often been tempted to blog off our great spiritual leader, Broon of the Glens.  However just as his recent self-serving eulogy to the egregious … Continue reading

More Media Moaning

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Some Back Pagers may’ve noticed the, erm, spirited exchange between self and J. Black of this parish subsequent to my Blog, ‘Paper Tiggers’. And if so, this the text of a letter I recently wrote to the Meedja Grauniad referred to … Continue reading

Paper Tiggers*

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In recent weeks there’s been much hand-wringing amongst the media punditry about the escalating decline of newspaper sales. As an ex-local newspaper editor myself and because it parallels a brooding downturn in magazine fortunes (which concern me even more), I … Continue reading