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
Tonight live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge’s guests are Dr Susan Croft and Neil Hornick of The Phantom Captain theatre company. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. The alternative theatre movement in Britain was a post-war explosion of talent and ideas that took theatre to the masses in
This Sunday sees the last edition of The Review Show, ending a longstanding BBCTV arts strand. Already shunted from its weekly Friday spot on BBC2 to a monthly graveyard shift on BBC4, even that has proven too much for the philistines at the top who have decided to axe it. All those ginormous management salaries
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Aowen Jin’s Factory Girls Tonight live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge‘s guests are actor Daniel York, playwright Jingan Young, and artist Aowen Jin. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. With added Wondermare. Expect a lively discussion on the conflicting state of Chinese artists in Britain as the West
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Definite Wow! factor in this video of the changing map boundaries of Europe over the last 1,000 years. I quite liked the dramatic Inception music track. Sad to think that every time there’s a lurch in the boundary changes, people died. Keep an eye on them Golden Horde Mongols! Madam Miaow says … visit Anna’s
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