David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 30 January, 2010 at 10:09 am. It's been filed in the manchester + marketing + music category . {4 Comments}
I’m quite impressed by the borderline heretical grumblings over at FUC51. Not because I hate the Smiths, New Order or Joy Division (they’re actually three of my favourite bands) but because I hate the idea of living and working in a supposedly creative city that’s obsessed with a musical movement that ended twenty years ago.
Yes, [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Thursday 21 January, 2010 at 11:15 pm. It's been filed in the food + journalism + manchester + web category . {11 Comments}
There’s been a not wholly positive reaction to Manchester Confidential’s “redesign” today. It looks quite a lot like the old site although it’s somehow more grotesque. It’s cluttered, it’s dominated by an almost misanthropic shade of yellow and looks like it was conceived in about 1999. By a drunk. ManCon has unleashed the dogs of war [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 18 January, 2010 at 8:34 pm. It's been filed in the bbc + celebrities + football + television category . {2 Comments}
The growth of a beard obviously signifies a psychological problem within the wearer. Not my words, you understand, but those of former England football manager and beard expert Graham Taylor, who thinks people who “grow beards for no reason” are undergoing some kind of ongoing, possibly catastrophic, mood change.
Taylor was talking about Roy Keane, who [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 18 January, 2010 at 6:29 pm. It's been filed in the radio category . {1 Comment}
it’s nothing compared to Penk’s recent stunt, in which he played Van Halen’s Jump after hearing that a woman had caused traffic “chaos” by threatening to jump off a bridge above the M60.
David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 13 January, 2010 at 5:40 pm. It's been filed in the music category . {1 Comment}
Hello, all. You may have noticed I haven’t updated this blog for a fair while. This is thanks mainly to a combination of it being Christmas, going on holiday, and having lots of other fabulously exciting things to do.
However, I became conscious that my regular reader would be missing me, so I invited, via the [...]