Tag: Simon Reynolds
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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…
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Not another John – John Lydon on 6Music
You need to hear this – John Lydon on 6Music’s ‘The First Time’ on the state of music and the UK today, PiL reform, his eclectic and very mashup approach to music, Malcolm McLaren (interestingly echoing my take on McLaren’s death and the deification, he’s right about concentrating on the good but there was sadly…
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Mozgate: NME vs Moz part II
You might have heard about the fracas here, I wasn’t going to comment until I’d read the article but I found scans here (and Tim Jonze’s response is interesting if you contrast it from what he apparently told the manager). I remember Mozgate part 1 back in 1992 (?), and felt that the NME was…