Annelouisekershaw365
I’m Anne Louise Kershaw a freelance writer; Music Editor of Blankpages and Manchester's Finest & I write for Guardian Northerner and Clash Magazine amongst others . I'm Senior Editorial & Designer for Carel Press.
This is my blog where I write about music, theatre, fashion, arts & culture, gender & equality. Every time I blog I post a picture because i'm obsessed with my camera.
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Recent Posts
- Exclusive interview with Skin from Skunk Anansie
- Twitter: Procrastination, productivity and pain
- The drawbacks of Twitter bitching
- The Accrington Pals, Royal Exchange Manchester. Bitter, brutal and beautiful!
- Rats’ Tales at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre
- The Country Wife at the Royal Exchange
- I interview Shell Zenner – The godmother of new music
- Bringing classical music out of the concert hall and into the art world!
- I discuss ‘Madchester’ with Dave Haslam
- Blank Media Collective Projector Series
Tag Archives: the Independent
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
87 – Kurt Cobain’s Death was 17 YEARS AGO!!
87/278 Colleges are awash with rakish teens wearing over-sized checked shirts, ripped denims and chunky boots. Yet it was 17 years ago yesterday that Kurt Cobain killed himself. So there are kids (I now use that word with an acute … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Boots, Cosmic Love, Death, Florence and the Machine, Kurt Cobain, New Internationalist, Nirvana, Suicide, the Independent
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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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52 – Anti-gay couple cannot become foster parents
52/313 The best response to the news that Anti-gay Christian couple lose battle to become foster parents was: “Good. I have a LOT of religious tolerance but only for tolerant religions,” by random commenter Chris Horner. I couldn’t have put … Continue reading
Posted in Gender & Equality, News
Tagged Adam Thorp, Anti-gay, Asleep in the Back, Cast of Thousands, Chris Horner, Christians, Elbow, Foster care, Gay, Hazelmary Bull, Homosexuality, Leaders of the Free World, Mr and Mrs Johns, nine Lessons From the Dark, Peter Bull, Seldom Seen Kid, Sexuality, Straight, the Independent
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38 – My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding – It seems we’re all missing the point!
38/327 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. My main issue was how the fuss being made over the heavy-weight wedding dresses, porno outfits and spray tans was in fact tackily glossing over the … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Gender & Equality, Pop Culture, Reviews, TV
Tagged dresses, Gypsies, Lady Behave, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Roxy Freeman, Sexism, Spray Tan, the Independent, The Vaccines, Travvelers, Tv
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37 – The Vaccines – a dose enough to cure you
37/328 I won’t start this the same way every single article about The Vaccines begins (on everybody’s lips, media industry frenzy, band comparisons, eagerly awaited album) because that in itself is the boring problem. Yet in a way you cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Elvis Presley, Gillian Orr, Guardian, Hype, Jilted John, Journalists, Joy Division, mumford and Sons, Music Execs, NME, Nu-Folk, Promotoers, Quiffs, Rock 'n' Roll, Spotify, The Cure, the Independent, The Shadows, The Unthanks, The Vaccines, We 7, Wife Not Lodger
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