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: R.E.M
80 – Friendly Fires – Live those days tonight
80/285 Following on from their self-titled debut album Friendly Fires are set to release their nemesis second album. Pala, on the 15th May 2011. Their first release let loose a set of respectably decent, though far from ground breaking, electro/indie … Continue reading
74 – Elizabeth Taylor dies, another hole in our cultural comfort blanket
74/291 Within what feels like minutes, people all over facebook and twitter have changed their profile pics to various beautiful images of Elizabeth Taylor; people are tweeting humorous quotes by her; YouTube clips of her finest film moments are posted … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Film & Theatre, News
Tagged Adverts, Blanket, Classic Hollywood, Collapse into Now, Culture, Death, Elizabeth Taylor, Films, Glamour, Heritage, Hollywood, Identity, Marriages, Models, Music, Oasis, Popular Culture, R.E.M, Race, Religion, Tv
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66 – The joys of the contraceptive injection
66/299 Three days ago I was writing about the joys of vintage. Ah, those were the days when my head was full of inventive outfit ideas and unusually tacky 80s fabrics. Two days ago I was at a fantastic vintage … Continue reading
Posted in Health & fitness
Tagged Birth Control, Build A Rocket Boys!, Collapse into Now, Contraception, Elbow, Feminism, Hormones, R.E.M
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60 – Comment is Free – A scary fact for most feminists
60/305 Jessica Reed from the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, kindly tweeted about a piece today written by feminist writer Jill Filipovic, for Comment is Free America. In her article Traditional marriage is dead. Let’s celebrate which basically explored how “A … Continue reading
Posted in Gender & Equality, News
Tagged Feminism, Jessica Reed, Jill Fillipovic, Lykke Li, Marriage, Obama, R.E.M, The Guardian, What's The Frequency Kenneth, Women, Wounded Rhymes
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59 – International Women’s Day mainly preaches to the converted
59/306 It’s not only International Women’s Day, but today actually marks the centenary of International Women’s Day. That’s right, for 100 years the world has been celebrating the achievements of women and acknowledging their contribution towards all that is good … Continue reading
Posted in Gender & Equality
Tagged Asleep in the Back, Christmas, Collapse into Now, Daniel Craig, Financial control, Harrasment, I Holla Back, International Women's Day, James Bond, Jokes, Judi Dench, Meals, Pancake Day, R.E.M, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sexism, Shrove Tuesday, Valentine's Day, We are equals
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58 – R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now, a Review
58/307 Having thoroughly enjoyed 2008’s Accelarate I have been eagerly awaiting R.E.M.’s 15th studio album, close to their 30th anniversary as a band. I liked that Accelarate was a direct punch-in-your-face response to what can only be described as an … Continue reading
56 – R.E.M Collapse into Now Film Project
56/309 Days before the excitedly anticipated forthcoming R.E.M album Collapse into Now (I am both over-excited and anticipating much greatness), R.E.M HQ, the official band website, release the news of the Collapse into Now Film Project. To work alongside the … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Music, Reviews
Tagged Collapse into Now, Collapse into Now Video Project, R.E.M, The Observer
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46 – Belong by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
46/319 Considering they’ve been going since 2007, I have only just today heard of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, courtesy of on-the-pulse DJ Michelle Zenner via Twitter. Their new single Belong was released on iTunes yesterday and is … Continue reading
42 – R.E.M. – Collapse into Now, a preview
42/323 Oh joy of joys, on a par only with discovering that there is indeed a biscuit in the biscuit bear despite not adding any to it for months, and it is not even off, just when I want one … Continue reading
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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