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                    My areas of specialist knowledge and expertise are in the broad remit of arts, entertainment, travel, food/drink/hospitality industries. I have been writing about these areas for over 25 years, and have within the past 20 years provided content, copywriting, and forensic editorial refurbishment for many websites relating to music, travel,

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Interview: Michael Palin

“I’ve been to many places in the world where I am not recognised.” Surely not? After all, we are talking with Michael Palin, an Englishman in his late 60s who has had more than one bite of a cherry that is singularly known as “fame”. First, there was his integral role as part of the famously influential comedy writing group

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Interview: Julian Cope

    So which Julian Cope do you remember? The pop star Cope of Teardrop Explodes, the Liverpool post-punk band that enlivened Top of the Pops with reassuringly left-of-centre gems such as Treason and Reward? The solo Cope wrapped around a gravity-defying mic stand-cum-lectern as he crooned his solo hits, World Shut your Mouth and Trampolene? Or, most latterly, the

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Personal

Me, Myself & My Other Life

  Did I ever tell you about the time I stayed up till dawn in the company of six transvestites in Singapore? Or the time I almost slipped overboard in a Force Nine storm while we were gamely sailing through the Bay of Biscay? What about, perhaps, the time I missed getting back to my ship in Hong Kong because

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Personal

The Rod Stewart T-Shirt – I Wore It Well

  It isn’t often that a journalist can say they were once on the same line-up as an internationally famous rock star, but in my case it’s true. It’s on a t-shirt I used to have. You don’t believe me? Read on. Flashback to 1991. I had been married for less than a year, and despite assurances from my wife

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Interview: Sebastian Barry

“I live quite an isolated life in some ways, and it can be interesting to come out and talk to people. I don’t read reviews until some months after the books are out and have been reviewed. You have to take them as they come, don’t you? Publishing books is a form of boxing but you can’t actually get out

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Personal

Notes To Self: 35 Years Of Gigs

35 years? No, don’t be ridiculous! It couldn’t be. It simply couldn’t. Er, actually, hold on a cotton-pickin’ minute, I do believe it is 35 years to the season that I first saw not only my first life-changing gig, but the event that kickstarted a cultural revolution in my head. It was Iggy Pop, in London, at a venue that

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Interview: Roddy Doyle

Dublin-based writer Roddy Doyle is having none of this celebrity lark; he keeps himself to himself, his business is his and his alone, and if you’re asking him for the name of his favourite restaurant you’d swear you can hear him chuckling at the absurdity of the question. Doyle seems the type of person (and he’s certainly the kind of

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