What Just Happened, Jan 23 Style
in January, stories, we had them
by LamontPaul, Founder & Publisher
first published: February, 2023
first published: February, 2023
What you readers have been reading
What just happened? Here are the stories our readers read the most in January 2023... Fab to see Miki Berenyi of Lush back on top ahead of her appearance at the Wolverhampton Literature Festival to talk about her book, Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success. Our interview with Miki came together in two lucky shakes of a lamb's tail, at the tail end of last week...
All The Hits from January 2023
- How Music Saved Miki Berenyi From Success by Ancient Champion
Indie Superstar Miki Berenyi talks about her career and her memoir, Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success - Alan Rankine, More Than Qualified by Tim London
Alan Rankine shared his spectacular success in the best way he could - Italia 90 - Harmony by Tim London
when a band is rooted so firmly in a particular aesthetic then the review should acknowledge that and apply the same social and cultural context - Britpop '23 - The Return Of The End Of Irony by Tim London
Tim London says the britpoppers stabbed to death Britain's most important cultural and artistic invention of the 20th century (no, not James Bond). And pushed the least tasty bits into a sausage machine. - Oh Me Oh My by Lee Paul
Lonnie Holley has new LP looming... - Gemma Moore's Imagined Landscapes by LamontPaul
Gemma Moore's new work opens in Bishops Castle - Free Your Lunchtime with Seikou Susso by LamontPaul
Refugee activists Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham and B:Music free lunchtime concerts series returns - Obrigado Pele! by Sofia Ribeiro Willcox
Sofia Ribeiro Willcox remembers the difference Pele made off the field - Here Come The Euros by Tim London
PiL are aiming to be the Irish entry for the Eurovision song contest - Welcome Back Outsideleft Week in Music! by LamontPaul
We're hearing from... Skrillex Pink Pantheress & Trippie Redd, PiL, Cat Clyde, Big Joanie, Dry Cleaning, Tape Runs Out, Pale Jay and Okonski, Fantastic Negrito, The Resolve, Shame, Sleep Token, Automatic, Lonnie Holley, Atlassian, The Lemon Twigs, Tianna Esperanza, Janel Leppin, Debby Friday, John Bailey, John Cale and Low Girl - This is What You Like by Jenny McCann
Bear Bookshop's Jenny McCann on the books you should consider reading right now - Big Joanie by Ancient Champion
The Hare and Hounds - Stuck inside a Snowy House, with the Desert Blues Again by Toon Traveller
Ali Farka Toure's forthcoming LP Voyageur, stirs up memories of what might have been - FIFA, Qatar and Me by Toon Traveller
Toon Traveler Goggleboxes the World Cup Final in Malaga - Outsideleft Week in Music: So this is what 100 looks like.... by LamontPaul
we're hearing from De La Soul, Hania Rani, Young Fathers, U2, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Eloise, Nick Cave, Valerie June, Holy Moly and The Crackers, Rich Brian, Wilco, Jethro Tull, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Say Lou Lou, Jesus Piece and The Telescopes - Wolverhampton Literature Festival 2023 by Lee Paul
Some highlights and other lights at the 2023 Wolverhampton Lit Fest - Gemma Moore Sells Out by LamontPaul
Gemma Moore's Imagined Landscapes work at Bishop's Castle has sold out - Obrigado Pele! by Sofia Ribeiro Willcox
Sofia Ribeiro Willcox relembrando Pele (em portugues) - Tom Verlaine by Tim London
Carried Away - Contemporary Responses to the Childhood Paintings of John Scarlett Davis by Lee Paul
Gemma Moore's Views from the Windows in Leominster
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