Reviews

No security here to cramp your style...

New music is there, you've just got to dig a little... and you might just like the venue when you get there...

Lady Gaga v the group that invented a tribute band and became their own support act

On how Lady Gaga rendered her own tribute to David Bowie at this year's Grammys as largely irrelevant - and true inventiveness of the week was apparently hidden in a small venue in Birmingham.

Fragmentary, worldly, hyper-real...

In 2013, me and my wife Jane – an avid Bowie fan since that fateful Thursday in the early 70s when he took to the screen around 7.30pm – were part of...

Star Man

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Star Man 13/1/16 Even the Prime Minister likes Bowie. We are the Bowie generations. Our lives are so regimented. We study, study, and study to find...

Spectre 3: M as "First Seduced."

"M" is his chief contact in the British Intelligence Service. M is a woman. The murder of "M" by Sciarra begins the action of Spectre. In James Bond'...

Never Enough Time - My Life with Terry Biddlecombe by Henrietta Knight

A few years ago I lost interest in reading biographies of jockeys and trainers. Then for Christmas Heather presented me with ‘Not Enough Time – My...

Omar's Diary for Tuesday 22nd December 2015 and the history of Baghdad

Omar is more than pleased to announce that Man Servant has finally finished reading Justin Marozzi's 'Baghdad - City of Peace,City of Blood'. This...