September 1995, past midnight in an unlicensed downtown Los Angeles coffeehouse. The door is sealed with heavy wrought-iron work, and its front steps have recently played host to a drive-by shooting. The staff can’t recommend anywhere in the area safe enough to find a real drink, and the crowd affects a studied, West Coast indifference…
Anybody who’s ever been even peripherally associated with any news event knows that most journalists start with a story and then find a few facts to fit it. Going home from the tragedy of the Poll Tax March years back and watching London local news utterly fail to put the brutalised demonstrators’ side of the…
“You can’t be trusted for a minute. That noise is unacceptable to the neighbours. Just moderate it a bit, will you?” Barbed Wire, from Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci’s first album, Patio, closes with the sound of an irate mother breaking up one of the bedroom recordings that, together with sessions culled from radio stations in their…
Last month, as I was being served at the counter of north London’s fashionable Rhythm Records, the assistant suddenly clasped his stomach and rushed out into Camden High Street. “It’s all right,” said a second assistant, who took over, “he had a heavy night. It isn’t a comment on your taste.” I had just bought…
My interview with Spike Milligan didn’t exactly go as planned. I made an effort to arrive at his East Sussex address dead on 2pm, so I wasn’t too early, or too late, trying to learn from the mistakes of previous grail-seekers, whose ignominious fates I’d witnessed in a wedge of press cuttings. I did the…
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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World Without End, Twitter
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Stuart, Chortle
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Wharto15, Twitter
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Idrie, Youtube
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum