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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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Tag Archives: Elbow
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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102 – NME Slate Elbow’s Open Arms…
102/263 …Quite literally in every sense of the phrase. In this week’s singles reviewed, Gavin Haynes, a rather grotty and miserable writer for the NME reviews, amongst other songs, Elbow’s Open Arms. Now, anyone who knows me or this blog … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Build A Rocket Boys!, Elbow, Gavin Haynes, Guy Garvey, Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart, New Internationalist, NME, Open Arms, The Smiths
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91 – Songs that make you cry (and magnificent 80s theme tunes)
91/274 The Guardian today had a far more cleverly titled article called Tracks of our tears, and seeing as though I can’t think of a title that refers to both songs and being upset in a witty and concise way, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Depeche Mode, Dr Who, Elbow, Enjoy The Silence, I'll Find My Way Home, Jon and Vangelis, The Birds, World in Action
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84 – Edginess, cool and glamour go up in smoke
84/281 There was a mildly thought provoking article in this Sunday’s Observer by Euan Ferguson about fashion’s attraction to smoking. In Darling, you’re smoking, Euan looks at the glamour, the reality and the attraction of smoking in the world of … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Film & Theatre, Health & fitness, Music
Tagged Build A Rocket Boys!, Coke, Cool, Elbow, Euan Ferguson, Fag, Grease, kate Moss, Mother's Day, Sandra Dee, Smoking, Snog, The Observer
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83 – The importance of being earnest… or was that idle?
83/282 Weekends are when most of us get to relax and have fun. If, like me and my other good half, you work long/late/random hours through the week, the weekend is it – the one time to let off steam, … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure
Tagged Build A Rocket Boys!, Clocking Off, cocktails, domestic, Elbow, GCSE, Weekend
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79 – It’s time Jim but not as we know it
79/286 Following the general floaty euphoric state the Elbow gig left us in this weekend, we had a bit of a shock last night to discover the clocks had gone forward. It is nothing new for me and my other … Continue reading
Posted in Health & fitness
Tagged Brough, Build A Rocket Boys!, Castleton, Elbow, Hope, Mountain Bike, Riding, The New Review, The Observer, Time
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78 – Elbow Live at the MEN Arena, 25 March 2011 – A review
78/287 I have been looking forward to this gig for months. I wanted the tickets so bad I paid extra for them on ebay (not out of first choice obviously, I’m not that weird). In the week leading up to … Continue reading
75 – Human League – Never let me go (actually do right now)
75/290 The following comment was left underneath one of the many classic Human League videos on YouTube: “I am stuck in the 80s. I still have an 80s haircut, wear 80s clothes and of course listen to great 80s music … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged 5 Star, 80s, 90s, Asleep in the Back, BMX, Build A Rocket Boys!, Button Moon, Cast of Thousands, Chelsea Girl, Don't You Want Me Baby, Elbow, Fraggle Rock, Grifter, Leaders of the Free World, Lebanon, Love Action, River Island, Seldom Seen Kid, Society Now, The Guardian, The Human League, the Independent, The Scotsman, The Scottish Herald, The Telegraph, The Yorkshire Post
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68 – Beth Ditto, Riot Grrrl or sell out? Ah get lost!
68/297 These were the questions asked by Tim Jonze in today’s Guardian interview with The Gossip’s front woman Beth Ditto. The interviewer, blatantly uncomfortable with Beth’s intimate and comfortable style (the interview took place on a bed under low lighting, … Continue reading