Modern Gutnish

Squeezing the spot of 21st Century life.

Sunday, 18 May 2025

We need to talk about Graham

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  Graham Norton needs to go from our Eurovision presentation. He sounded bored, jaded and like he’d rather have been somewhere else last nig...
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Saturday, 5 April 2025

How many hours…?

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This is a really interesting piece that I've linked to at the bottom of this post. I sometimes find it exhausting, all this talk of seas...
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Friday, 6 September 2024

Tolkien the pee

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  Happy World Read a Book Day to all who celebrate! This is my current reading. I had any love for The Hobbit beaten out of me at primary sc...
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Saturday, 27 July 2024

Supermarket car park reviews: Steven Wilson

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 This week's supermarket car park retrospective review. Narrator's voice: "To the Bone didn't get to no.1 on the week of re...
Saturday, 13 July 2024

Commotion At a Book Festival

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Lovely afternoon and evening at Newark Book Festival. First up talking all things ABBA was Giles Smith. He wrote one of my favourite books a...
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Spirit

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Interesting evening in Sheffield on Monday when I attended a talk and Q&A by the biographer of Talk Talk's Mark Hollis, Ben Wardle. ...
Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Cue the Music

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It's with a tinge of sadness that I read that the next issue of Q magazine is to be the final edition. Q is a magazine that I started ...
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The voice of the self-educated Everyman who finds himself at one remove from today's popular culture, drawing the line between Syd Barrett and Sid James. What he does is of real importance. He explores that sense of low-fat/broadband/HD-ready/four-lane tedium that makes suburb, city, metropolis and backwater melt into the same grey paradise of empty satisfactions. Were it not for Bright Ambassador's dissenting voice, you might think you were going mad alone - that you were the only one who didn't find Jimmy Carr funny, that Arctic Monkeys are brilliant, that we're being corralled into corners where choice is just a button on your TV remote. Bright Ambassador is a disappointed romantic who wishes that England was green and pleasant still, but can't help noticing the tyre chucked up on the substation at the end of the street.
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