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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: Reviews
Miss Julie at The Royal Exchange – Electrically charged and beautifully bleak
On the whole, a play by Strindberg (1849-1912) is never going to be a day at the races, though if you count the two tragic deaths at this year’s Grand National, then maybe it is. A prolific writer who often … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Gender & Equality, Reviews, Theatre
Tagged Carla Henry, Gender, Joe Armstrong, Maxine Peake, Miss Julie, Strindberg, The Royal Exchange
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Inside Exhibition at Blank Space
Manchester, the lovely city I live in, offers no end of fantastic and, usually, free art, to indulge in. Curators, practitioners and viewers range from the well versed and experienced, to the cutting-edge and emerging. It seems there is room … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Reviews
Tagged Art, Blank Media Collective, Blank Space, blankpages, Exhibition, Inside, Manchester
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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
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning at The Royal Exchange – exhilarating, sharp and real!
Now I’m fond of a bit of retro styling (80’s trash, early 60’s Rock & Roll fash, 40’s tailoring etc), but while I like to stylistically look back, I am under no ‘good old days’ delusion, style or otherwise. For … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Gender & Equality, Reviews
Tagged Abortion, Alan Sillitoe, Albert Finney, Angry Young Man, Arctic Monkeys, Arthur Seaton, ASBO, Chanel Cresswell, Clare Calbraith, Cold War, Daddy Warbucks, Downton Abbey, Factory Floor, Freudian, Gin, Graeme Hawley, Jo Hartley, Karel Weise, Kitchen Sing Drama, Matthew Dunster, Nottingham, Perry Fitzpatrick, Riots, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Sex, Shag, Talk, Tamla Kari, that’s what i’m not, The Royal Exchange, This Is England, Walk, Whatever people say I am, Working Class
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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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Women affected by the cuts still have ‘Bags of Attitude’
Getting ready to go out to the Bags of Attitude exhibition this morning, I spotted a facebook ‘friend’ casually criticising the orientation and body size of feminists. Following a swift report, block, delete (if only real life were that simple) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gender & Equality, Reviews
Tagged Bags of Attitude, Charlotte Newson, Claire Mooney, Gender, Oxfam, poverty, Spending cuts, The Pankhurst Centre, Women
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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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