Annelouisekershaw365
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: Marina and the Diamonds
95 – John Lennon never imagined a day when we didn’t write about women’s bodies!
95/270 When John Lennon wrote Imagine, he offered us plenty of food for thought, and lots to think about, and loads of other utopian style clichés that generally seem simultaneously both a really good idea and pretty much unattainable. You … Continue reading
65 – I’m more on a man’s level; women are threatened by me! Eek!
65/300 I’ve just watched Come Dine With Me. A prime time show that simultaneously feeds my totally crap TV need whilst serving up lashings of social insight into the lives, opinions and generally odd qualities of people in this country. … Continue reading
Posted in Gender & Equality, TV
Tagged Come dine with me, Family Jewels, Feminism, Gender, Grumbi Doll, Lady Behave, Marina and the Diamonds, Men, Stereotypes, Stuart Thornley, Vintage Village, Women
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6 – Music and the need for something new – in need of a fix
6/359 I am a self-confessed music obsessive and probably not in the so-called ‘cool’ way. I am an enthusiastic repeater with things that I like, in fact I suspect the repeat button was made with me in mind. With films … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Photography, Pop Culture
Tagged Dorian Lynskey, Elbow, Fiona Sturges, Florence and the Machine, iPod, Marina and the Diamonds, Mumford & Sons, Neil McCormick, Prince, R.E.M, The xx
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5 – Making a 30 Minute Meal of it – cooking up a storm
5/360 While reading through a huge recycling pile of papers I came across a small article from the 10th December 2010 (I have to keep papers as part of my job, I swear, this is not a cover up for … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Music, Photography, TV
Tagged Bruce Parry, Jamie Oliver, Marina and the Diamonds, Obesity
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4 – William Carlos Willams – Making something out of nothing
Busy doing nothing 4/361 I am currently, just for pleasure, going through the process of reminding myself of the many wonderful poems I have read and collected over the years. Poems that, like the friends I met at university, inspired … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Photography, Poetry, Reviews
Tagged 365, Blog, Frank O"Hara, Imigists, Marina and the Diamonds, William Carlos Williams
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3 – The curse of the eco-freak – home work
3/362 I’m working from home today and the house is freezing. I am not a skinflint but do not like paying for heating when it is just myself in the house. Also I don’t like paying for heating in the … Continue reading
