Author: Leigh Banks

Please watch Bob Mori’s terrifying video mid-story I am a flexitarian, I guess. The reason I try to pigeonhole myself – although I don’t think you’re supposed to eat pigeons are you – is because I am a vegetarian, except when it comes to beef burgers and kebabs. Yes, flexitarian gives me dignity. It could… Continue reading MURDER MOST FOWL AT KFC’S SLAUGHTERHOUSE 10bn and 5

VIDEO INTERVIEW INSIDE … LA film-maker Bob Mori and journalist Leigh G Banks discuss a book that, on the surface, is a bit of a Malibu-boohoo. But in reality, just like Dylan’s Point Dume home, it could be a real hidden gem. A few weeks ago I was asked to review a new Dylan book… Continue reading RUNNING BACKWARDS INSIDE BOB’S MALIBU ONION DOME DREAM

We at The Society want to wish Alan Bennett, brother of ‘lost boy’ Keith, a speedy recovery after his recent heart attack. By all accounts Alan is doing well after a having a stent fitted a couple of weeks. And we send all our best wishes and support to him. With his usual Northern bluffness… Continue reading ‘Get well soon wishes’ to Alan Bennett after heart shock as law-change over Keith secrets lumbers on

Ed Ricketts said: ‘We must remember three things. I will tell them to you in the order of their importance. Number One and first in importance, we must have as much fun as we can with what we have. Number Two, we must eat as well as we can, because if we don’t we won’t… Continue reading The can of worms that was parental alienation back in the 1940s… and the advice still matters today

After four years in amazing Slovakia, Leigh and Andrea had to return to the UK for a while. This is a vlog of their strange journey through Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. Along the way they learnt to hate the woman on the Satnav, got lost in the woods, intimidated by the police, a… Continue reading Leigh and Andrea’s incredible journey across Covid Europe into the dystopia that Britain has become

Leigh and Rodney talk about the terrifying fires on the Costa de Sol, expat taxation problems in Spain – is Portugal better? – Leigh is attacked by a fly and much, much more

SEE VIDS AT THE END OF THE STORY Finally, after 17 years, Bob Dylan’s coruscating and ultimately hip Like a Rolling Stone has lost its crown as the world’s greatest song. In the first update of Rolling Stone magazine’s  500 Greatest Songs of All Time since 2004 Bob’s work of sheer genius has rolled off… Continue reading Has respect slipped for Bob as he rolls off 17-year top spot?

1. We’ll find the fire-starters, say officials as Spain’s killer mountain blaze blisters on 2. ‘We’re ready to leg it’ says Rodney as 3,000 FLEE Spain’s Sierras wildfire – exclusive pictures 3. Forces move in as Costa del Sol mountains blazes drives 2,500 more from their homes UPDATE 16 9 2021: This grainy picture taken… Continue reading THE SUN FINALLY RISES ON THE BLACK HILLS OF MARBELLA

Bob Mori is an artist I really admire. His output is prolific, his imagination mushrooms like a cloud, incises like hard rain. He is a child of the late 70s, and still has his mind on the art and the fury of the politics then. But he is focused on the thundering road ahead. Bob… Continue reading Bob and Tom’s art of the sound and the fury… 9/11, lyrics inside