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My top albums of 2020 - and other music that got me through it

My top albums of 2020 – and other music that got me through it

2020. An inarguably shite year. But one of the things that emerged early on as a small salvation was the continuing stream of music releases. The live scene may have been completely shuttered – my last gig was the fantastic-as-ever Meursault on 13 March, a show like many around that time which shouldn’t have been allowed to go ahead, with the benefit of hindsight – but at least recorded music…

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My top 15 albums of 2019

I’ve always listened to a fair amount of new music, but Spotify has probably just amplified that in recent years. Every new album in the world, give or take, is there, tantalisingly at your fingertips.

The old problem with streaming is the lack of connection to any of these records.

Albums have to work a lot harder to fight off all of this competition to lodge themselves into your ears, heart,…

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#Andrew Wasylyk #Beirut #best albums #best albums of 2019 #Cate le Bon #Foals #James Blake #Metronomy #Meursault #Michael Kiwanuka #Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds #Richard Dawson #Sharon Van Etten #The Twilight Sad #These New Puritans #Thom Yorke #Vampire Weekend

Raith Rovers' brush with the big time - a fan's view, 25 years later

Raith Rovers’ brush with the big time – a fan’s view, 25 years later

Don’t peak too soon. It can apply to many things in life.

Whatever you do, make sure you save the good stuff till later.

When you go to the cinema you don’t settle down with your popcorn and watch as the hero vanquishes the villain in the first scene, followed by 120 minutes of denouement.

But reality isn’t like Hollywood. And there’s no chapter in any screenwriting book that would come close to…

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#Celtic #Celtic FC #football #Raith Rovers #Scottish Football

Why Berlin might just be my favourite city

I’m just back from a four-day trip to Berlin, and it only reaffirmed my love for the place.

This was the third time I’ve visited, but the first with my wife, and she clearly loved it as much as me.

The previous two trips with friends revolved around beer and football and not much else, so this time I ticked a lot off my wishlist in a memorable few days.

The East Side Gallery

So what is it that…

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#Berlin #Germany

Five quick takeaways from the first Behind Local News conference

A couple of weeks ago I took part in the inaugural Behind Local News conference in Wolverhampton.

Held at Molineux Stadium, the event was a chance for journalists from across regional media in the UK to step away from the day job and share their experience and knowledge.

Journalists can be instinctively protective and competitive where rival publications are concerned, but there was a genuine…

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#Digital #journalism #Media #publishing

I didn't love Blade Runner 2049 as much as the critics

I didn’t love Blade Runner 2049 as much as the critics

I was really excited by the prospect of Blade Runner 2049, like any fan of the original. Especially after reading the early critical superlatives about Denis Villeneuve’s sequel. “Masterpiece.” “Better than the original.” “Mesmerising.” So I was surprised that I didn’t leave the cinema last night with the kind of I-need-to-watch-that-again-right-now excitement that often follows such cinematic…

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#Blade Runner #Blade Runner 2049 #Denis Villeneuve

Inside No. 9: Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton - interview transcript

Inside No. 9: Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton – interview transcript

This is a full transcript of my interview with Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton about their BBC Two show Inside No. 9 for the i – and a tiny bit about the League of Gentlemen. It was quite an ending to The Devil of Christmas. Was it a bit of a eureka moment when that twist idea came to you? Steve: “It was really. We’d hit upon the idea of doing something about Krampus, first of all. And as we…

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#BBC #Inside No 9 #Reece Shearsmith #Steve Pemberton #The League of Gentlemen

The art (and craft) of storytelling

Last weekend I took part in a fantastic (and, astoundingly, free) workshop on storytelling. This was delivered over two days in Glasgow by the writer, story consultant and Pixar genius Matthew Luhn and Hazel Marshall, a vastly experienced writer and former BBC story advisor. Although the workshop was aimed at those looking to get into screenwriting, there were universal truths that apply to…

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#glasgow #hazel marshall #matthew luhn #screenwriting #story #storytelling #writing #writing tips

Dusting off some old 45s 👌 #vinyl #45 #records (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

#records #45 #vinyl

Mourning the Alien: my thoughts on David Bowie

#david bowie

Dream line-up #beachhouse #dappy #glasgow #o2abc (at O2 ABC Glasgow)

#dappy #o2abc #beachhouse #glasgow

How Data Journalism is more than spreadsheets

The newly formed Alan Turing Institute last week hosted a summit on Data Science for Media at the University of Edinburgh’s Informatics Forum. The Forum is an exciting space for some of the finest young minds in the world to come together to collaborate on projects that could actually shape the world of tomorrow. It’s also a building that wasn’t even there when I studied English here in the early…

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#BBC News Labs #data journalism #journalism #mike dewar #New York Times

On Friday we stopped by the #brouwerijtij in #amsterdam for a tour and a few of their top ales in the sunshine. Move over Heineken Experience! #beer #craftbeer #igersamsterdam #instabeer #beerporn #beerstagram #brewery #netherlands #dutchbeer #beergeek #beers (at Brouwerij 't IJ)

#netherlands #craftbeer #beers #beerporn #instabeer #dutchbeer #beer #brouwerijtij #igersamsterdam #amsterdam #beergeek #brewery #beerstagram

The Snake House on #spuistraat in #amsterdam yesterday. Judging by the newly demolished buildings nearby this squat won't be here for much longer. #streetart #netherlands #igersamsterdam #snakehouse #graffiti (at Amsterdam-Centrum)

#netherlands #spuistraat #streetart #igersamsterdam #graffiti #snakehouse #amsterdam

91 beers on draft. Is there such a thing as too much choice? #beer #piwpaw #warsaw #poland #Warszawa #craftbeer

#craftbeer #poland #beer #piwpaw #warszawa #warsaw

Not a bad view of #Warsaw from the 25th floor of the hotel #Poland #Warszawa

#poland #warszawa #warsaw

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Interview: Denny ‘Blazin’ Hazen on being the real Average Homeboy:

“My music has always been from a suburban point of view from a white guy in Ohio. I don’t rap about drugs, thuggin’, gang bangin’, or other kinds of criminal activity. Also, I have an education. I don’t speak with triple negatives.”

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