Dec 27, 2017 | ARTiculate
[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,...
Jun 22, 2017 | ARTiculate
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...
May 20, 2017 | ARTiculate
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL I had two interactions with Chris Cornell. The first was after his set at the My Coke Fest music festival in Johannesburg in 2008, perhaps the most exciting reason ever to go to a racetrack...
Apr 10, 2017 | ARTiculate
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...
Dec 24, 2016 | ARTiculate
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...
Oct 26, 2016 | ARTiculate
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...