| General | Music, writing about music, forgetting to regularly write about music | | Music | You've really not been concentrating, have you? | | Movies | This Is Spinal Tap, The Rutles, Walk The Line, Stop Making Sense, Westway To The World, Control, 24 Hour Party People, Dig!, A Hard Day's Night, Slade In Flame, Ugh! A Music War | | Television | Mostly, it seems, stuff that has Lauren Laverne on it, even though she's betrayed our trust so many times now. | | Books | England's Dreaming, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Rip It Up And Start Again, This Is Uncool, Lipstick Traces, Margrave Of The Marshes, Cider With Roadies, Head On/Repossessed, Time Travel, My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize, The Nation's Favourite, Lost In Music, The Best Of Smash Hits: The Eighties, 45, Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance, Gig, Showbusiness: Diary Of A Rock'n'Roll Nobody | | Heroes | Andy Falkous, Andy Partridge/Colin Moulding, Billy Bragg, Bruce Gilbert/Colin Newman, Danny Baker, David Byrne, Don Drummond, Elvis Costello, Frank Black, Grant McLennan/Robert Forster, Howard Devoto, Ian Dury, Ivor Cutler, Jarvis Cocker, Jerry Dammers/Terry Hall, John Cooper Clarke, John Peel/John Walters, Johnny Cash, Johnny Marr, Jon King/Andy Gill, Kevin Rowland, Kevin Shields, Kim Gordon, Luke Haines, Mark Radcliffe/Marc Riley, Mike Watt, Nigel Blackwell, Prince Buster, Roland Alphonso, Steve Lamacq, Stuart Murdoch, Thurston Moore, Vivian Stanshall/Neil Innes. We assure you, when we compiled this list it seemed quite outre. |
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