In spite of her absences, it has never felt as though Beth Orton had entirely slipped pop’s mind, consigned among the cracked jewel cases of the forgotten and the forgettable. Briefly at the high end of being magazine...
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Read MoreAs luck would have it, I speak to Jaime Hernandez the morning after the night before, the night before having been the premiere of Love and Rockets: The Great American Comic Book, a TV documentary condensing the 40-year history...
Read MoreAs someone who, among their proudest achievements, can count having one of their less funny submissions printed in Viz comic’s ‘Letterbocks’, it feels like a particular privilege to have the opportunity to...
Read MoreYou think you know what you’re getting. For audiences dulled into insensibility by wall-to-wall Walford, the too-familiar sounds of the voices of EastEnders raised in conflict evokes a weary resignation. Not this again....
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