Woking is not a great place to live, truth be told. I live between there and Guildford and whilst the latter is quite pretty and full of wonderful things to look and at, the former isn’t really much of those things. The recession has, admittedly, wrecked a lot of business in the area and [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Max
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In the US, talk shot host Conan O’Brien is leaving NBC after a row over late night show scheduling that involved Jay Leno, Jeff Zucker, and many social networking groups in honour of the quiffed one. This isn’t major news in the UK but for someone like me who watches O’Brien I am genuinely quite [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Max
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I don’t know if you guys in the UK have noticed but it has gotten a bit cold recently has it? I’ve been alive on this planet for twenty one and a half years and have never seen the temperatures get as low as they have done in the last couple of weeks or so. [...]

Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Max
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It’s that time of year where the folks that write about music have to look back over the past year. I’m sure you’ve already seen a ton of lists explaining what the year’s best music was and some nostalgic features (fear not, if you like that sort of thing then you’re in luck as The [...]

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Max
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This year’s ‘must buy’ Nirvana Christmas product courtesy of the cash cows of Geffen is a DVD of the band’s landmark 1992 performance at the Reading Festival. However, that isn’t the only Nirvana release in the next few weeks. It’s hard to believe but Bleach, the band’s debut album on Sup Pop, is now a [...]

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Max
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