There was a time, as Peter Cook once joked, When Diana Dors Ruled the Earth. It’s a neat gag, but it’s also pretty telling. Swindon-born actor-cum-bombshell Dors had indeed loomed large in her heyday but, by the 70s,...
Read MoreBack in the early 2000s, Mexican cinema was riding a wave with films such as Amores Perros and Y tu mamá también impressing audiences and critics alike. By 2006, writer Jason Wood had taken the opportunity to speak directly to a...
Read MoreBack at the start of last year, Northern Soul spoke to curator Jan Hicks about the then-forthcoming Science and Industry Museum exhibition about Factory – that’s to say, Tony Wilson and co’s now-legendary northern...
Read MoreIn the preface to this new Faber compendium of essays about The Fall, co-editors Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley declare that ‘this book is not about a rock band’. They say: ‘This is not even about Mark E Smith....
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