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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: October 2007
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Thursday, 25 October 2007. Michael Jackson: What really happened. This was the title of a documentary screened on Channel 4. In the UK last night. Yes, apparently this is Jacko). After reading a piece in the Guardian Guide. On Saturday, which was written by the programme maker. I was genuinely looking forward to watching it. Although the article was fairly open ended and didn't really tell me much, I guessed that this was because he wanted readers to watch the programme. Peretti came up with the idea tha...
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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: February 2008
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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: 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: December 2007
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007. UCLH A E: Open day 6/12/07. Among the pallid faces and the heads in hands is a bubbly American woman who has staple-gunned a piece of wood to her thumb and a Scottish bloke with a suitcase. He’s trying to chat up a girl with broken fingers – the result of a karate chopping nephew. It’s University College Hospital’s. Annual open day but around the corner from the main entrance, where Gloria Hunniford is turning on the Christmas lights, it’s just another day in A E. A queue has f...
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Living With Letters: Odd one out
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Saturday, 30 May 2015. I always embraced other cultures and tried to learn about them. So when presented with the option of sharing a house with foreigners I didn't think there would be any problems. However I didn't take account of dealing with conflicting prejudices and social expectations. Things I did that I found completely normal were sometimes frowned upon, leaving me occasionally fighting to be myself. I didn't expect to struggle with acceptance that made me feel culturally alone.
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Living With Letters: January 2015
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Friday, 16 January 2015. Taking the piss for a better future. The Hebdo attacks had my mind whirring, partly because I'd never even heard of the cartoons (admitting to ignorance), and partly because I'd become bogged down in British politics and being reminded of the spectre of terrorism again left me reeling. So my reaction was first tears, then to join a throng of Je Suis Charlie, only to turn tail when someone described the publication as racist. Is it their failing or mine? So thanks for taking the p...
