Daily Archives: 31 August, 2011

Festivals Are No Picnic

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Electric Picnic is on this weekend and I’m not going! (I know. I know. You all want to rip up your tickets and not bother. Even Arcade Fire are thinking of pulling out.) The truth is that , while the line-up is quite good* and the people are always so nice (about what I did), I have a touch of “festival ennui”. That’s French for “I can’t be arsed going to a festival this year”. It’s just too much like …

Death is a Single Mother

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We all knew that Single Mothers will be the ruination of civilization* but who knew it would go down like this?