Zeitgeisting the pulse of London

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I'll be taking a weekly reading of London's cultural pulse, assessing it's BMI and recommending a course of antibiotics, to be taken with a twice daily with a meal.

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Sacred Hell: The Best of the Alternative Proms 2019

In The Shadow Of The Volcano: Blurt Edinburgh Fringe Picks 2018

London: a lonely sneeze of the week 14th-20th May

Sacred Hell: The Best of the Alternative Proms 2019

Ever since Sir Henry Wood made his fortune inventing the material that took his name, he has spent much of the rest of his varied career...

In The Shadow Of The Volcano: Blurt Edinburgh Fringe Picks 2018

Gripping to the worn slopes of an ancient volcano like a dog to a radiator long-since switched off, drained of its fluid and put into a...

London: a lonely sneeze of the week 14th-20th May

You push down the button on the side of the kettle, the one marked 'on', switching the kettle on in the usual way. A little orthodox,...

London: a sob into the pillow of the week 8th-15th May.

Snap, crack, groan. The sun awakes, blinking both eyes in the way that you only would if you had two eyes. The sun places both feet on...

London: a swallowed sneeze of the week 19-26th March

The weather checks its predictions, and decides to conform. No one notices, but the predictors. Equally as predictable, the lazy sun...

London: a scream into the darkness of 12-18th March

All darkness. Swirling darkness. Black on black, slightly to the left and above of black. Then a beam, jagging out through the black like...

London - a toedip forthcomingly into 26th February - 4th March

Blink your eyelids open, first one, then the other, then both intermittently, then both at once. A sidelong glance alongside to...

London – a cultural blueprint for 19th-25th February

The February dawn breaks passive-aggressively into a Monday that puts the ‘morning’ into ‘mourning’, and then takes it out again. A bird...

‘Leeeeefs’, the 4th studio album by magenta placenta

‘The band that time remembered’ was the slogan plastered, in every absence of the word, on every poster advertising the return of THE...

Review of ‘Now Playing’, the frustratingly titled new release from Quick Ben

If Quick Ben weren’t quite so effortlessly charming, winking at and personally dressing every single one of their audience members at...

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