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CHRIS BROCKLEBANK

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London Music Award Nomination Emmy the Great: 'On the one hand sweeping and allusive, on the other breathtakingly intimate and personal, Emmy the Great’s album Virtue is a dense accomplished set of songs brought on by the disintegration of the singer’s engagement. Amid the swirling Paper Forest she sings the words ‘I’m blessed’ with heartbreaking clarity; a kind of awestruck self-belief. Her delivery anchors the whole affair, assuming an emotional weight only glimpsed at previously . . . an extraordinarily confident work, shaped by confusion and turmoil.'

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London Book Award Nomination A D Miller: '[on Snowdrops] This is a Russia gleaming with strip joints, call girls, malevolent overlords, fraudsters, overnight millionaires; but in which the old beg on snowy streets and tramps ring random doorbells seeking shelter from hypothermic death. The overriding theme is corruption and the way that morals can become corroded, but the novel is multi-layered; subtle rather than strident, and imbued with a bruised beauty.'

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London Book Award Nomination Carol Birch: '[on Jamrach’s Menagarie].. beyond the blood, brine and slime that swills down the Ratcliffe Highway, above the stench of the rotting fruit and vegetables and the excrement of a thousand animals, lies a rather subtler story of the hazy line between camaraderie and rivalry and of the bonds both forged and broken in extreme adversity.'

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London Music Award Nomination Django Django: 'It’s a dream of the psychedelic tropics, a heady explosion of colours, an album that takes what it means to be ‘in an indie band’ and gives it a good shake. Time to pay a visit.'

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London Book Award Nomination Tiffany Murray: '[on Diamond Star Halo] Raised in rural Monmouthshire, she grew up at the legendary Rockfield Studios, where her father was a producer and her mother the resident cook. In lesser hands, Murray's ensemble of eccentrics might have grown tiresome. It's testament to her talents that she has transformed this material into something more substantial. Thanks to Halo's presence, a tender coming-of-age story captures the ordinary pangs of growing up in unusual circumstances.'

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Hammer are back, back, back! The great British studio, forever redolent of fangs, bosoms, claret and the stern aristo handsomeness of Messrs Lee and Cushing, has bought the rights to the steampunk novel Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest

Chris Brocklebank · Views 250 · Dec 09 ·

Trudie Styler guest edits Big Issue.. oh.. and has a new yoga DVD out this week too.. an amazing coincidence

Chris Brocklebank · Views 248 · Dec 09 ·

Face Magazine, once the last word in sneery, up-to-the-second coolness, is now a museum piece

Chris Brocklebank · Views 323 · Dec 09 ·

Rufus Wainwright declares his seventh studio album ‘manly’

Chris Brocklebank · Views 279 · Dec 08 ·

Cockney chanteuse Adele’s backstage demands – European booze

Chris Brocklebank · Views 579 · Dec 08 ·

Literary Review’s Bad Sex Award 2011 goes to American author David Guterson

Chris Brocklebank · Views 297 · Dec 07 ·

Angelina Jolie sued for violation of copyright

Chris Brocklebank · Views 245 · Dec 07 ·

Alec Baldwin thrown off flight .. celebrities in the air are in need of nothing more than bringing down to terra firma

Chris Brocklebank · Views 217 · Dec 07 ·

Madonna will be half-time performer at Superbowl - hopefully she’s ditched the mauve camel-toe leotard

Chris Brocklebank · Views 280 · Dec 06 ·

Steve Coogan’s I, Partridge - spoofs the parochial self-delusion that besets the majority of modern telly celebrities

Chris Brocklebank · Views 307 · Dec 06 ·



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