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: Prince
53 – From London Fashion Week to the High Street to Me
53/312 London Fashion Week is already a distant memory, gone in a haze of goodie bags and blisters (for those in the know) and fash mag spreads and insider tweets (for us saddos not in the know). What seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion
Tagged Beetlejuice, Boy George, Cadbury's Flake, Fashion, Florence, From Blossoms, Li-Young Lee, London Fashion Week, Magazines, Paris, Prince, Vienna, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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50 – Has Glastonbury lost its edge?
50/315 In the Telegraph today, Lucy Jones, commenting on the news that U2 were set to headline the forthcoming festival asked “Has the festival lost its edge?” It seems the three headliners are now set to be Coldplay, Beyonce and … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged 2011, Album, Beyonce, Bono, Cambridge, Coldplay, Daily Telegraph, Edge, Eton, Glastonbury, Jesus, Lucy Jones, Prince, Tickets, U2
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47 – London Fashion Week; plus-size, androgyny and glamour
47/318 London Fashion Week is drawing to a close – the event that has been hogging our fashion mag spreads and arts & culture headlines. Whilst I would like to say I am so in the know that I have … Continue reading
39 – Gary Numan – Replicas & my synth obsession
39/326 I have always loved Gary Numan. I have no idea where that has come from as I don’t recall any of my older siblings listening to him and he had his heyday before I was old enough to say … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pop Culture
Tagged Adam Thorp, Are Friends Electric, Blade Runner, Chanel, Dire Straits, Gary Numna, Let's Go Crazy, On a Ragga Tip, Prince, Purple Rain, Replica, Replicas, SL2, War of the Worlds
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29 – Karma Chameleon – The beauty of Boy George
29/336 “Mmm he’s a bit weird isn’t he, he freaks me out” someone said the other day in the pub in reference to none other than Boy George. Now while weird and freaks me out are terms of endearment from … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Gender & Equality, Image, Music, Pop Culture
Tagged Androgynous, Boy George, David Bowie, Growing up, Image, Karma Chameleon, Michael Stipe, Music, Prince
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19 – Missing the action – illness and Prince envy
19/346 I am in a pathetic, sorry state. Having had a sinus infection for well over three weeks now (yes when the glass is half empty it’s well over), I have developed a total hysterical hunger for action. Whilst ill … Continue reading
7 – Prince, If I was your girlfriend – so much more than just sex
7/358 I was writing yesterday about my need for some new music. My dire need for the new has sent me hurtling back to the most interesting in my musical history. Primarily this week, Prince. Oh the youthful joys of … Continue reading
Posted in Gender & Equality, Music
Tagged East 17, Feminism, Gender & Equality, Growing up, Inspiration, Prince, Sex, Sign of the times, Stereotype, Take That, Teenage
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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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2 – The King’s Speech – an unintentional review
2/363 Now I know reviews are supposed to come in at around 800 words, but this wasn’t meant to be a review, though has ended up as one and is a bit longer. I saw the King’s Speech at the … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Music, Photography, Poetry, Reviews
Tagged Colin, Elbow, Firth, Harry Potter, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Prince, The Kings Speech, Theodor Roethke
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