Seen And Heard: The Best Of 2017

Seen And Heard: The Best Of 2017

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   The below music, literature, film and theatre may not have been created or originally released during 2017, but it was only at some point during this year that I was able to see it,...
Opinion: Good, Better, Blogger

Opinion: Good, Better, Blogger

By BRUCE DENNILL   Blogger. It’s a term that’s almost spat out, like a condition you might catch if you discuss it for too long. As media platforms go, blogs are often classed somewhere between penis enlargement flyers pasted onto suburban dustbins and first-time...
Opinion: Going Around A-Goon, Or Show Me The Funny

Opinion: Going Around A-Goon, Or Show Me The Funny

By JOHN ELLIS   It’s a sign of our ever-deepening cultural poverty that I’d have to explain what I mean by ‘The Goons’. I’m talking, of course, of the one-and-only, groundbreaking, anarchic, pioneering, standard-setting Goon Show. The BBC radio comedy of the...
Seen And Heard: The Best Of 2016

Seen And Heard: The Best Of 2016

By BRUCE DENNILL   The below music, literature, film, TV and theatre may not have been created or originally released during 2016, but it was only at some point during this year that I was able to see it, hear it or read it. In all cases, I count myself lucky to...
Writing: How To Remain Anonymous, Or Covert In Glory

Writing: How To Remain Anonymous, Or Covert In Glory

By JM SHORNEY   Until today, in my sheltered writer’s existence, I had not encountered any reference to the group who call themselves Anonymous. The members don Guy Fawkes masks, which I suppose lends an eerie but historic message, as Guy and his...