As though we need to hear it again, BBC Sport leads today on study it commissioned into the amount of English footballers playing in the Premiership. It will inevitably be solid newspaper filler for the coming days, in place of those Euro 2008 wall charts we would be pinning up had, well, all number of [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Bon Iver, Noah and the Whale @ The Great Escape, Brighton
Posted in Music, tagged Bon Iver, Brighton, Five Years Time, Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale, Skinny Love, The Great Escape on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I managed to make it down to Brighton on Saturday for the last day of a new music festival called The Great Escape.
The festival was similar to the Camden Crawl, in that a ticket gave you access to any of the several venues which had acts performing over the three days. Brighton’s compact city centre [...]
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
Posted in Music, tagged British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?, Howard Bilerman on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rock folklore has it that Win Butler spent three months following a British Sea Power tour around Canada before recording Arcade Fire’s debut. The influence of the Brighton based band on Funeral was almost tangible, but four years on they attract only a modest following while the Canadian troupe have become one of music’s hottest [...]
The only Tory in the village
Posted in Politics, tagged Conservatives, llantwit fadre, local elections 2008, RCT, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rhondda Cynon Taff Conservatives, Tories, Wales, Welsh Conservatives on May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last Thursday, an old flatmate of mine stood for the Conservatives in a ward of the Rhondda Cynon Taff borough, in the local elections.
RCT is in south Wales. It is very Welsh, and covers an area of valleys, small towns and disused coal mines. Everyone votes Labour or Plaid. They have done so for as [...]
‘Death is the beginning of immortality’
Posted in History, tagged French Revolution, History, Robespierre on May 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
They say history is written by the winners, and certainly the past’s heroes and villains have almost unanimously been decided by those who have triumphed. But while Hitler, Stalin, Churchill et al have been pigeonholed with relative ease, some of time’s more interesting characters are far trickier to categorise.
I was watching an episode of Chucklevision [...]
Sweden’s footballing immigrants
Posted in Football, tagged Alfonso Alves Sweden, Allsvenskran, Bo Nilsson, Football, Glenn Hysen, IF Elfsborg, James Keene, Jimmy Dixon, Roland Nilsson, Sweden, Swedish football on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Swedish football has long exported top players and managers to the rest of Europe, but there are signs that the trend is beginning to reverse.
This season Sweden’s top flight boasts more foreign players than ever before, all hoping to become stars in a new country just as the likes of Freddie Ljungberg and Zlatan Ibrahimović [...]
