Tag: Olympic Games
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Unofficial Anthems 1: Good Morning Britain
The Muse Olympic theme tune has been released and ho-hum, it’s the bastard lovechild of Mr Blue Sky, John Miles (!) and Flash-era Queen guitar squiggles meeting unironic Triumph-of-Will-style Laibach vocals. So usual Muse then. *boom tish*. No it really reminds me of Laibach, in a rather unhealthy way…except I guess Leni would use a…
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Welcome to London 2012: Brand Exclusion Zone
I’ve been blogging and talking about my unhappiness of what’s going down in London 2012, and will talk about this more in the next podcast, up shortly. But this blog post talks about the Brand Exclusion zone where not only advertising by non-sponsors isn’t allowed but: This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing…
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Fuck The Olympics
People might think, from our press that Londoners are happy about this VIP Rich Person’s Party happening in the East of London. Nope – well this one isn’t happy, and I know many people who either are unhappy about the cost, security issues, the still crappy logo (no it hasn’t grown on me as promised,…
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RIP Foundry & The Death of London’s Nightlife?
DJing at the Foundry in Old Street several years back, which finally closed today. I’ll miss it! I also hear Fabric as of today is in receivership, Astoria, The End, Turnmills, Ghetto and Scala are also gone for various reasons over the last year or two. It seems a lot of the small bars and…