“Just be advised, boys … You’ll want to watch your step, ’cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around the floor of late capitalism — lowlifes of all income levels may step on me now and then but if they do it’ll be them who slip and fall […]
Oriental Pearl in late capitalism: warning Read More »
Tomorrow live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge looks at China’s cultural and scientific contributions and inventions. Guests: Elizabeth Lawrence and Paul Anderson. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. Tomorrow’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge is themed around China’s cultural and scientific contributions to the west from inventions such as
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) artists demand representation that reflects British Society Last February, the British East Asian Artists wrote an open letter to broadcasters and culture minister Ed Vaizey about the pitiful almost non-existent representation of east Asians in the media despite being the third largest minority in Britain. Vaizey, who had been
British East Asian Artists and Diaspora music take the diversity debate into Parliament Read More »
Pic: Anna and Laurie when we were both shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. (Neither of us won.) Eurasia? Or Erasure. The misuse of agenda: politics as entertainment and a schtick to beat up the upstarts. Was it something I said? In an argument about the exclusion of women of colour from the British left, politics,
A wonderfully clever short film made of St Ives in Cornwall, superimposing old black and white shots of the same views, made by Alban Roinard of St Eia Films and posted by St Ives Films. St Ives is where I often do all my best poetry and music performances for the May Literature and September
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The great rock photographer Chalkie Davies was reunited with his old NME mucker, the great music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, when we visited him at his exhibition at London’s Snap Gallery last week. All the photographs evoke the age of the Clash, the Sex Pistols, David Bowie and Mick Ronson, Blondie, The Specials whose Jerry
