On Ian Dury: “He remains a one-off, a flawed genius, as well as a reminder of how beautiful and alarming a humble pop song can be”. * Art writers. * The history of the London Tube map. * “…Bacon‘s sado-masochistic relationships lay at the heart of his best work”. * The miniskirt as political weapon. * All Tomorrow’s Parties. * Heidegger the scumbag. * On Richard Hell‘s Destiny Street Repaired: “Unwittingly, Hell had written the new version into the original script: the title tune is a recitation of a short story about a man stepping back 10 years and seducing his younger self”. * God Help the Girl.
First posted: Sunday, November 29th, 2009.