As we Twittered/Tweeted(?) yesterday, the passing of JG Ballard resonated both in the music world as well as the literary world.
There is a decent article here talking about Ballard’s influence on music, by looking into some of the fantastic music it inspired. The Manic Street Preachers were also into him too, it appears.
Sad news about the death of Clement Freud. He was a one-off, he had a keen eye for the ridiculous and one of THE great raconteurs.
If you haven’t already, you should get your hands on any of the Just A Minute episodes he appeared in to enjoy his unique ability to light up¬†the airwaves¬†by, ironically, speaking quite [...]
Our Barbarians give away made the News of the World north of the border this weekend
