As Sir Tim Berners-Lee – known as the inventor of the World Wide Web – launches a plan to save the internet, Leigh G Banks and the Preservation Society look at the hell created for us all by bullies prowling what should have been a global platform for freedom… The internet has become the new Wild West where… Continue reading Good, bad and ugly of the new Wild West where we are all expected to bite the cyber-bully bullets
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DYLAN: Don’t look back … or his paths to glory?
Some bash Bob’s 80s gospel period as God-awful but a recent retrospective shows it was a spirited time of passion and drama… At the age of nearly 80 His Royal Bobness of Dylan is still creating controversy as his latest album Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13, 1979-1981, is released Almost 40 years down the… Continue reading DYLAN: Don’t look back … or his paths to glory?
WHY I AM STILL PROUD TO BE A RED-TOP WRITER OF WRONGS
The day I stepped into my first national newspaper office at the beginning of my life as a journalist I was told something I would never forget… That doyen of the Red Tops Derek Jameson had just taken over as editor at the Daily Star and he saw me as one of a new breed… Continue reading WHY I AM STILL PROUD TO BE A RED-TOP WRITER OF WRONGS
Welcome aboard the Ponderland Express
I know it has recently become a great British pastime to bash the media, and newspapers in particular. But everybody needs the Press at times … so how do you get it to work for you? First, if you’re going to pitch your events then it’s useful to understand how the market-place works: Understand what… Continue reading Welcome aboard the Ponderland Express
For the true godfather of punk… my mate Brendan
(First published 2010) This morning I had a shock, a very good friend of mine, Brendan Mullen, the real Godfather of Punk, died in California last October. We’d been later-day Beats, but the vast expanse of sea that grew between us, meant that for the last twenty years we hadn’t so much as written a… Continue reading For the true godfather of punk… my mate Brendan
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The Skeleton, he’s up the drain…
Andrea Martin-Banks, chief researcher at the Preservation Society shared these Halloween photos from New York … She was in McDougal Street when she spotted these skeletons climbing the wall near Bob Dylan’s old house near Café Wha?. The house looks as if it is student accommodation now and somebody had gone to a lot of… Continue reading The Skeleton, he’s up the drain…