― Venga, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mark Morris, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― mark s, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Threads about state of music journalism, general threads like "who writes best about dance music etc." = ace. Vaguely constructive - check this person out - or at least fun.
C-O-D threads on individual journos = not ace, if the ET-is-a-cunt thread is anything to go by.
In answer to the question, he contributes a lot to the OneTouchMusic board which is somewhere on dottwo.com, so you could always go and ask him yourself. ;)
― Tom, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Omar, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Tom - he also writes brief album reviews for amazon.co.uk which he is on record on this very forum describing as "crap". Given that at least one of these albums was by Wings, I can see what he means.
― Robin Carmody, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
ET liked Gene, Taylor didn't. I loathe Gene to the depths of my soul. Big surprise!
So yeah, Taylor in part rooled them early nineties as I saw it. Just enough elegance to matter. Someone invite him over here, he'd like it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The S*M*A*S*H piece was basically an extended dissection / destruction of the perennial naivety of sixth-form political ranting. And it worked, as such.
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DG, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
"'Ed says it's not that he wants to kill them (the Tory government), it's that he wishes they'd never been alive in the first place', explains Rob.
I see.
'You know', adds Ed, 'I wake up in the morning thinking about some Tory nutter, and I wanna kill somebody! And I don't like feeling like that. That's what it's really about. The audacity of these people to put these thoughts in your head in the first place. It's just a matter of what, who, where, why and when.
I see."
You see where it's going ... Taylor making their ranting seem unbelievably naive and childish, albeit with a slightly patronising streak. He *could* go too far in the "take no bullshit" ethos, I think.
― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 15 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DG, Monday, 16 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
To be fair, the Everett True COD was done as a joke since discussions of his "hallowed" status had sprung up on the Stevie Wonder COD. Wasn't meant as a launching pad for random abuse, though.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― the pinefox, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
DUD.
― Josh (ILM Moderator), Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Allie, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Perret, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― David, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Perret, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
the disturbing thing is: that is precisely the sort of thing *I* would have done if I'd had the guts (it wasn't me, though).
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Taylor Parkes, Monday, 21 October 2002 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Taylor Parkes, Thursday, 7 November 2002 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Reading the Kulashaker 'K' thread I was remembering how great Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni sometimes were in Melody Maker, certainly about the only things worth buying it for at the time. Does anyone have any links to any of the reviews/interviews? I already know about the S*M*A*S*H one. Does the same Taylor Parkes reviews books for When Saturday Comes, now?
Also, does anyone know what happened to Chris Roberts?
― flowersdie, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=43266194
― henry s, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/5703/38/
TP on ITV's World Cup coverage, and James Corden's World Cup Live in particular.
"No one's forcing him to breathe all over everything; to become, as he has, as ubiquitous as sadness"
― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago)