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I’m Anne Louise Kershaw, Music Editor of Blankpages and Manchester's Finest.
This is my blog where I write about popular culture, specialising in music, fashion, theatre, gender & equality issues.
Every time I blog I post a picture because i'm obsessed with my camera.
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Recent Posts
- Miss Julie at The Royal Exchange – Electrically charged and beautifully bleak
- Inside Exhibition at Blank Space
- No Ceremony – just music worth making a fuss about
- Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer collection in Selfridges – not fast fashion, but trashy/clashy style!
- The Gospel According to….. (Part 1) – 30th Anniversary of The Smiths at the Holden Gallery
- The Slow Show Brother EP – both summer and shade and beautifully rueful
- Ren Harvieu & the album launch at Matt and Phred’s Manchester
- Saturday Night And Sunday Morning at The Royal Exchange – exhilarating, sharp and real!
- It was The Slow Show – and delightfully so!
- Women affected by the cuts still have ‘Bags of Attitude’
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Category Archives: Music
No Ceremony – just music worth making a fuss about
Having been sat waiting for a great new band/artist to come along for what seems like an aural age, suddenly three come along at once. One of these is No Ceremony. Now I know they’re from Manchester (as everyone who … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged CPR Agency, Electronic, Manchester, Music, No Ceremony, Review, Scott & Baily, The Rough Guide To Berlin, youtube
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The Gospel According to….. (Part 1) – 30th Anniversary of The Smiths at the Holden Gallery
This spring marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most critically acclaimed and influential bands in modern musical history, The Smiths. What better way to celebrate the musical mark they have made than with a singing, refrigerated bear, a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music, Reviews
Tagged 30th Anniversary, Andrew Bracey, Brave Music Agency, Cornerhouse, CUBE, Diana, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, it carries the sound, Jan Timme, Jane Anderson, Jeremy Deller, Last Harbour, Lucienne Cole, Manchester, Mike Joyce, Morrissey, National Portrait Gallery, Salford Lads Club, Stephen Wright, The Gospel According To... (Part 1), The Holden Gallery, The Independent Online, The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths, This Charming Man, Your heart
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The Slow Show Brother EP – both summer and shade and beautifully rueful
It always pleases me when artists I abuse the virtual hell out of online, actually bring out a real hard-copy-something I can own and play for real throughout the rest of my life. Following on from their fantastic performance at … Continue reading
It was The Slow Show – and delightfully so!
All full up on our delicious goats cheese Cornerhouse pizza, a scrummy Friday treat, we walked over to The Ruby Lounge to see The Slow Show hosted by BBC Manchester Introducing. As a band name they’ve been floating around in … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Brass, Cello, Gibson 335, Hurt, I See Angels, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Music, Nick Cave, Northern Town, Review, Streets of London, The Ruby Lounge, The Ship Song, The Slow Show
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Severant by Kuedo – the perfect soundtrack to this beautiful winter
Amidst a week of hail and sleet, facing the kind of cold concrete scapes that make it necessary to perma-wear your fella’s hoodie, I discovered at last some new music to inspire me. Being inclined towards the over-dramatics, I am … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Photography, Reviews
Tagged Austra, Berlin, Cold, Feel It Break, Hearts, I Break Horses, Kuedo, Lights and Offerings, Margaret Atwood, Memory Thumderstorm, Mirrors, Mozart Parties, Music, Niki & The Dove, Red Dawrf, Review, Severant, Sleet, Snow, The Drummer, The Fox, The Handmaid's Tale, Winter
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Exemplar: Joy Division exhibition by Kevin Cummins at Manchester Photographic Gallery
Amidst a week of ‘back to work’ and ‘January blues’ tweets came a sudden and unavoidable buzz amongst the creative Mancs in my network (in particular Debbie Manley who is the ‘what’s on’ font of all Mancunian knowledge. Statuses and … Continue reading
Glitz and glam – most certainly more dash than cash!
Walking into the office about a month ago, my boss declared she was planning her birthday party and I was head of music. Hurrah! As I’m a “pretty much everyone else’s choice is just not good enough” variety of music … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Leisure, Music, Photography
Tagged Bet Lynch, Birthday, Bjork, Elbow, Fred Aldous, Glamour, Glitz, Glitz and glam, Ludwig's castle, Music, Party, Social club, Style, Vogue, Wind
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115 – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart live at Sound Control 10th June 2011
115/250 Having been listening to Belong by The Pains of Being Pure At Heart on repeat for well over a month now (nicely alternated with Feel It Break by Austra, another on my must see list), I was as giddy … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th June 2011, Austra, Band, Belong, Bjork, Fanzine, Feel It Break, Fender Telecaster, Gig, Gigs, G`olden Glow, Kate Hogg, King Kayak, Lady Behave, Manchester, More Dash Than Cash, Music, Sound Control, Tailor Bird, The Pains of Being pure at Heart, Vogue, Volta
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