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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: Fleet Foxes
Edward II at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester – A review.
It is surely a challenge for any director, to make a play, first performed over four centuries ago, understandable and relevant to a modern day audience. Yet, under Toby Frow’s direction, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II at the Royal Exchange Theatre, … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Reviews
Tagged 1950s, Chris New, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Emma Cunliffe, Fleet Foxes, Gaveston, Isabelle of France, Jolyon Coy, King's Speech, Mad Men, Manchester, Mortimer, On The Road, Red Wine, Royal Exchange Theatre, Samuel Collings, Simon & Garfunkel, Toby Frow
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108 – Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues album review
108/257 When I reviewed the Helplessness Blues single before the release of the same titled album, I quoted Alan Corr who said that the harmonising ones make “music as multi-layered as a forest floor and as textured as ancient bark”. … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Alex Petriedas, Blues, Fleet Foxes, Folk, Guardian, Guitars, Helplessness Blues, Review, Robin Pecknold, Seattle
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104 – Alcohol and exercise do not mix!
104/261 I am still recovering from a fantastic weekend in the Lake District. By still recovering, I mean, still struggling to come to terms with the fact that I have to get up and… work, rather than get up, ride … Continue reading
Posted in Leisure
Tagged Alcohol, Birthday, Coniston, Dancing, Exercise, Fleet Foxes, Gin, Helplessness Blues, Lake District, Mountain Bike, Mountain Biking, Running, The Independent Online
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103 – Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Review
103/262 Summer 2008 is remembered in a beautiful haze of Fleet Fox fuelled picnics and magical garden parties. Before Mumford and Sons made it official, Fleet Foxes were persuading us that yes, whether we thought it or not, folk was … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Alan Corr, Beards, Camping, Fleet Foxes, Folk, Helplessness Blues, Hippies, LPs, Mountains, mumford and Sons, Noonoo, Nu-Folk, The Crimson Petal and the White
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54 – Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy’s bluff, bollocks & bloody genius!
54/311 A hoax or not a hoax… who the hell cares? As one of the many Banksy cohorts says near the end of Exit Through the Gift Shop “The joke is on… I don’t even know if there is a … Continue reading
