Tag: bbc
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Westminster Product Recall
Yes they are very dangerous, and ironically get really shirty about ‘old views’ (read: 4 years ago) being dug up. I mean what’s a death penalty between friends? :-/ Also funny in the Question Time clip Priti Patel says “A lot of politicians run away from this debate…” – like you’re doing here? And as…
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This pain is like a glacier moving through you
I make no secret of my love of John Grant, seeing him perform Glacier last year was probably the best moment in a gig, his voice blew right through me and lifted me up. I seem to be hearing a lot of him lately, what with the excellent documentary on Iceland that’s just aired, the…
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Bang On A Drum
I mentioned this on one of the many repeats of Story Of Pop, but now it’s on YouTube – Coldcut going through all the samples they used in their classic and influential remix of Eric B & Rakim’s Paid in Full…and it includes a really obscure break from a BBC Playschool record, ‘Bang On A…
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Stewart Lee on arts funding
Worth watching this clip from a 2010 interview with Stewart Lee on arts funding…I think this very much has come to pass, much more with Cameron and co, where University is where you go to learn jobs that make money. And I think the point about the arts ‘fighting the war on their terms’ is…