Archive for February, 2010
Piccadilly Backpackers hostel in Piccadilly Circus London
For those looking for cheap hostels for London theatre trips, as I have in the last few years, Piccadilly Backpackers hostel is perfectly located. It’s just off the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and a stone’s throw from buzzing Soho. Location I’ve stayed at this [Read More]
Book review: Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
In reviews of Geoff Dyer’s excellent third novel Paris Trance the main complaint I've seen is that it’s somewhat episodic and lacking narrative thrust, but in a novel written about the lives that informed a novel that was never written, a little aimlessness is not an [Read More]
Chilli’s takeaway, Manchester: rich post-pub pickings
If you’re visiting Manchester and you are checked into the Travelodge on Great Ancoats St, or you’re out and about in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, then you’ll probably eventually find yourself in or around the pubs at the Swan St end of the district. There are a [Read More]
The axeman cometh: BBC 6 Music faces the chop
It looks as though BBC 6 Music is going down the tubes and I think that’s a terrible shame. 6 Music is a refreshing alternative, in the truest possible sense, to the playlist driven drivel of much of the BBC’s analogue output. digital only station, and probably the [Read More]
What’s going on with The One Show?
Critically panned and generally belittled from the moment of its inception, plagued by rumours of internal tensions and now threatened by the resignation of one its star names; by Adrian Chiles’ new beard is The One Show ever struggling! BBC One’s current affairs [Read More]
