The internet has taken an awful lot of flak lately, accused of all sorts from murder to drug dealing via rampant piracy. It is little wonder that our brave Government feels the need to rush in and DO SOMETHING before the evil being emitted by our Netbooks and iPads swamps the earth. As even casual [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Kraftwerk’
Sunday 5 July 2009
Manchester views
A couple of pictures I took, when strolling around… Channel M have a huge ferris wheel in town, by the Arndale centre. They also used to have a music channel broadcasting local bands, but that unfortunately closed in May. The story is here, and echoes a conversation we had on Thursday night after Kraftwerk about how Manchester’s [...]
Friday 3 July 2009
We are the Robots
To Manchester! The city sweltered in the unaccustomed sunshine, as the Manchester International Festival opened in style with Kraftwerk at the Velodrome. The ‘living legends and globally revered innovators of techno pop’ (as noted in the programme) are also cyclist enthusiasts, so when we arrived to find the stage and standing section in the centre of the track, [...]
Monday 29 June 2009
It Felt Like a Kiss
I’ll be in Manchester this weekend, at the Kraftwerk gig (just had to mention… sorry!) Now I’m also hoping I’ll be able to get tickets for ‘It Felt Like a Kiss’, a show put together by film maker Adam Curtis and theatre group Punchdrunk from rare archive footage. There’s a taster available here and from [...]
