Monthly Archives: August 2012

Afrofolk, starring Adrian Roye & The Exiles – Picture This #13

Posted on August 2, 2012 by PopLifer

One downside to living in London: they keep throwing these big bloody parties that make the city hellish for its normal residents, and send an army of imported bureaucratic jobsworths onto the public transport system with the sole intention of … Continue reading →

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Pet Shop Boys. Eventually.

Posted on August 1, 2012 by PopLifer

Hello PopLifer readers. For those of you who actually want to read us banging on about the Pet Shop Boys again – apologies, we are taking a short break in our rundown of their 10 best ever. Probably a day or … Continue reading →

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Inside the rings – five things you should know about the Olympics (but won’t see on TV)

Posted on August 1, 2012 by PopLifer

It’s not all hi-nrg pop and gay icons at PopLifer, you know. While Neil has been working out new ways to say “lovely tune” in the Pet Shop Boys rundown and thinking about Gore Vidal, Chris  has been an embedded reporter prowling the Olympic … Continue reading →

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Gore Vidal, the establishment outlaw, dies – Picture This #12

Posted on August 1, 2012 by PopLifer

Sad news – American author, essayist, wit and commentator Gore Vidal has died, aged 86. Vidal’s elegance as a writer and sharpness as a wit was only matched by his personal courage. In 1948, Vidal was a celebrated young writer on … Continue reading →

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