Archives – 2004 – March – 26  

The Magic Flute, English National Opera, London
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— 26 Mar 2004 Mike Comment

I was blown away by this last night. It was stunning in so many ways.
The ENO production pushed the humour to the front and the comic foil; Papageno hammed it up to the crowd. There is a lot of character and location movement in The Magic Flute and t[…]

“There’s a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road – that’s where I’ll always be….”
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— 26 Mar 2004 Pete Baran Comment

“There’s a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road – that’s where I’ll always be….” Zatoichi is The Littlest Hobo. With a sword. And lots and lots of bloodshed. The kind of blodshed that would not have been[…]

Much as the Publog keeps a keen eye out for new snack food produce,
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— 26 Mar 2004 Pete Baran Comment

Much as the Publog keeps a keen eye out for new snack food produce, Proven By Science will occasionally cast its eye at the scientific (and more probably pseudo-scientific) domestic products. And they don’t come more domestic than Domestos Pink[…]

Troubled Diva is playing a game
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— 26 Mar 2004 Tom Comment

Troubled Diva is playing a game comparing ‘this week in pop’ across the decades, with a sort-of megamix for each day. Great idea, well executed. Currently the 1960s are winning: a shame I think as my own pop researches suggest that 1964 w[…]

PopNose V2.0
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— 26 Mar 2004 Tom 7 comments

PopNose V2.0
NYLPM is four years old today, and it’s time to freshen up the format a little bit. What I’ve decided to do is bring PopNose, our MP3 blog, onto NYLPM. Hits ahoy! But PopNose itself wasn’t without its problems, which is[…]

Fluffy Dub!
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— 26 Mar 2004 Tom Comment

Fluffy Dub! Reasons to love Kelis’ “Trick Me”.
1/ Dancehall borrowings in R&B are a wonderful thing but lifting your groove from pop-reggae is more unusual and – yay! – more fun too.
2/ Kelis’ delivery of th[…]

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