Category Archives: media

FIVE STARS – i think

Posted on May 1, 2026 by j futrell

After how many years, it’s a good few, I’m back reviewing again. Just as I was becoming accustomed to the idea that nobody gives a hoot what I think about any more I’m back in the driving seat of hyperbole … Continue reading →

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Kim In Form

Posted on April 27, 2026 by j futrell

spot Asta! text from May issue Seaford Scene When it comes to the spirit of the seaside Seaford’s Coastal Collective has it – in artistic buckets and spades! The group’s latest show Form & Figure at Seaford’s Crypt Gallery May … Continue reading →

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Anybody Need A Fix?

Posted on January 27, 2025 by j futrell

To tell the truth, I need to brush up on my lying. But more of that later. In the meantime or because just when I feared all was lost I discovered four maybe five years ago a glimmer of light … Continue reading →

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Marley and me.

Posted on March 19, 2024 by j futrell

I never met Bob Marley, which isn’t such a ridiculous admission given I was the deputy editor of a music paper called Echoes (formerly Black) that among championing a variety of rhythm driven music fancied itself a ‘Burning Spear’ head … Continue reading →

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in praise of geography teachers

Posted on February 6, 2024 by j futrell

  What is it with corduroy? Why after over 100 years since emerging as the worker’s ‘poor man’s velvet’ is it still so contentious? Is it in or is it out? Is it cool or is it beyond naff? Is … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Talk

Posted on July 12, 2023 by j futrell

The terrifying, if inevitable revelation that money expert Martin Lewis has been doppelganged, an online artificial intelligence (AI) likeness designed to defraud the millions of us who trust the media’s most respected economic adviser, was a wake up call to … Continue reading →

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In The Darkness Of The Road – Hearts Aglow

Posted on March 29, 2023 by j futrell

  One of my pleasures this past winter has been following twilight A roads with a sliver of magenta in the distant west and Weyes Blood (pronounced Wise Blood) sweeping aside all but the silent ocean, barren headlands and growing … Continue reading →

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Tied In Knots

Posted on January 13, 2021 by j futrell

  I’ll be frank, I didn’t know whether to be flattered or alarmed when a friend casually noted that I was wearing a tie while walking Asta on the beach. Not in a business suity sorta way with a white … Continue reading →

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that’s enough of that then – the scourge of shamefluencers

Posted on September 1, 2020 by j futrell

  If your sense of style has been turned on it’s head and your concept of acceptable popular culture is in retreat then perhaps like me you are an unwitting victim of  – shamefluencing.  I became aware of this new … Continue reading →

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Kim and Sally at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Posted on February 8, 2020 by j futrell

Everyone is very excited because later this month one of Kim and Sally’s ‘yukata’ and ‘obi’ designs outfits, produced when they were the Bentley & Spens textile design partnership, is to be featured in Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk an eye … Continue reading →

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