Scene: Lower Quinton in South Warwickshire, England. Population 493. A quiet village, settled in its ways, where everyone knows each other and strangers are not…
George Miller’s marionette studio in Glasgow. George Miller aka Kaiser George is an artist, musician, and leader of the cult band The Kaisers—hence the moniker…
It’s Friday the 13th. Probably an auspicious time to announce a new major exhibition of the cult psychedelic artist Burt Shonberg at the Buckland Museum…
The Roto-Rooter Good Time Christmas Band was one of the best, almost long-lost bands of the early 1970s. Six ace performers who spent their time…
What have you been doing during the COVID-19 Lockdown? Binging on boxsets? Drinking too much? Self-medicating? Finding all your good clothes have shrunk from lack…
November 2019: Artist Sig Waller garnered considerable praise and caused some controversy when she exhibited a few of her latest paintings at the annual Saarland…
At the end of March, the writer Séb Doubinsky should have been traveling across America giving readings from his latest novel The Invisible. Picture him…
The death of one form brings forth life in another. Something was going wrong. It wasn’t just with the band, it seemed to be happening…
Sunday morning, flicking through news channels I chanced on a Nigerian breakfast show that held my attention between mouthfuls of cereal. Four women around a…
Poor Terry Jones, what a fucking dreadful way to go. Dementia–which sick fucker came up with that one? Death’s a right evil bastard. My old…