Jan
15
Haiti: Problems put in Perspective
January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It’s been a mad few days in the World Service Newsroom. As you can imagine when a major disaster hits it’s all hands to the pump. Unless you’re Anderson Cooper of course, in which case it’s to the Bat-chopper Robin!
Jan
11
Apple start to bite
January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I just tried to install the WordPress 2 app for the iPod touch. I’m running 2.2.1 of the iPiod touch OS and itunes tells me I need a newer version of the iPod touch software. I go to iTunes and update and it tells me the current version is 3.1.2 for £2.99. Annoying.
Dec
27
PiL, Camden Electric Ballroom, 22nd Dec
December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
It’s easy to mock a PiL gig. With an average age of about 41 the demographics on this cold Camden night just about matched the waistlines.
Dec
19
Erland and the Carnival
December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The last time I saw folk music in action it was in a central London pizza parlour and the guy was dressed in pointy-hooded green medieval tabard with bells on one ankle and a foot-operated drum on his back. He actually used the words hey-nonny-no in one song.
Dec
17
Should homosexuals face execution?
December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
It’s a controversial question which cropped up yesterday here in the World Service.
Nov
20
Chief Tashka
November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
It’s not often you get to meet a real-life Amazonian Indian chief in the centre of London.
Nov
14
Video nasties: what was all the fuss about?
November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Well I finally did it. Some three decades or so since the great British video nasty scare reached it zenith I have watched three of the very worst offenders.
Oct
27
Juliette Lewis, Shep Bush Empire, 23rd Oct
October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Is Juliette Lewis an over-privileged Hollywood star just playing at being a rock star or is she for real?