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Gun toting pacifist: Bianca Bohl, Cobden Club, Monday February 25
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Thursday, 28 February 2008. Bianca Bohl, Cobden Club, Monday February 25. The Grand Hall of the Cobden Club in Ladbroke Grove. Looks more like a film location than the usual sticky-floored dive that most gig-goers are used to. This is probably appropriate for Westminster student, Bianca Bohl. And her 6-piece band. Bohl's ensemble fill the high ceilinged hall of this private members club with sumptuous music fit for the cinema. This creates an awkward gap between the crowd and the band. Parts of the gig a...
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Gun toting pacifist: Foundphotos
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008. Everybody gather round and share in the delights of Foundphotos. A collection of accidentally brilliant images. The photos are collected (or stolen as far as I can make out) from all over the world. Users of file sharing. Websites for downloading music, often make their photo albums publicly available, along with their collection of rare Britney b-sides. All for a good cause though as the results are hypnotisingly good. Not like your family. I *love* that wedding photo :-).
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Gun toting pacifist: I love Valentine's day... honest!
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Friday, 15 February 2008. I love Valentine's day. honest! Valentine’s Day makes me sick, I just wish I’d kept that to myself and not told the girlfriend. If you were out on Thursday night, I’m sure you all saw it – supposedly lovesick couples, fawning over each other everywhere you turned. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not averse to public displays of affection and have been prone to wretch-inducing behaviour myself. Suddenly everyone is gazing into each other’s eyes like opticians on ecstasy. Apparent...
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Gun toting pacifist: June 2008
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Friday, 13 June 2008. Short-tempered punk revolutionary, Chris Martin, has walked out of a Radio 4 interview. Stating "[I'm] not really enjoying this" before adding that he doesn't really like "having to talk about things". Perhaps somebody at the Beeb should have explained the premise of an interview before asking Chris questions about "things". This kind of underhand journalism is simply not acceptable. Particularly from Radio 4. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe in a reader.
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Gun toting pacifist: Theoretical Girl and The Equations, White Heat, 7/2/08
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Thursday, 7 February 2008. Theoretical Girl and The Equations, White Heat, 7/2/08. If a friend who has been playing a musical instrument for 6 months invites you to see their first gig, it is reasonable to assume that you will lie to them when they ask what you thought of the performance. On Tuesday night I went to a club in Soho expecting to find about 15 to 20 friends and family waiting to see their loved ones make offensive noises in a newly formed band. When I got to Madame JoJo's. The upshot of all ...
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Gun toting pacifist: Press conferences
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Thursday, 24 January 2008. This week, my work placement at GP newspaper has given me a great insight into how the big media cogs turn as they churn out the news. On Tuesday, I visited NICE. Offices in Holborn for a press conference. That sentence is a little misleading because although the offices were indeed very nice, it is actually an acronym for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (or the National institute for Curbing Expenditure. As a cynical doctor once told me). All the same faces from...
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Gun toting pacifist: September 2007
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Sunday, 30 September 2007. Does the world really need another blog? But as I said, I have a gun, so do pipe down at the back and settle down to a warm cup of my ego. While trying to work out what a blog is supposed to be, I discovered that it's basically just a forum for displaying the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Just checking if anyone is actually reading this. So I thought I'd concentrate on posting links to cool stuff. One of my favourite journalists is called Charlie Brooker. Anyway, eno...
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Gun toting pacifist: Mark Everett of Eels, St. James' Church, Picadilly. 17/1/08
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Friday, 18 January 2008. Mark Everett of Eels, St. James' Church, Picadilly. 17/1/08. Warning - Drunk blog. Thursday is my blog day at TWFW Towers and the whip-cracking mafiosi in charge are on my back for results. Sadly, it is beyond the witching hour and I'm already 26 minutes past deadline. A digit is sliced from our hand for every minute that passes without copy on the news desk. I'm a cunning one though and I bought a family pack of Cadbury's fingers. Having finished the day at GP magazine. E arrive...
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Gun toting pacifist: Make Interviews Fair
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Friday, 13 June 2008. Short-tempered punk revolutionary, Chris Martin, has walked out of a Radio 4 interview. Stating "[I'm] not really enjoying this" before adding that he doesn't really like "having to talk about things". Perhaps somebody at the Beeb should have explained the premise of an interview before asking Chris questions about "things". This kind of underhand journalism is simply not acceptable. Particularly from Radio 4. 16 June 2008 at 08:34. 12 January 2010 at 18:32. 24 March 2011 at 14:42.
