Two hundred million people watched the IPL season opener in Abu Dhabi … more than the Super Bowl audience and not too far off the Champions League final.
Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music β and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world
‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell π β Excerpt: Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail β he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade β afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.
π΅ My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (4), KrΔek, Capella Istropolitana (3), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (2), Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger (2) & Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (1) via tweekly.fm
A Pizza Express Neptune Pizza π β Excerpt: I’m sure Pizza Express won’t mind my singing their praises. I watch my cheese intake, so despite my liking a nice chunk of Cheshire, I very rarely have any. I also like a pizza but again don’t have too many.
