It's a music column. Published in Romanian. In Romania. Because it's far too hardcore for ex-pat readers. Because I'm feeling kind, you can get it here in the language of English. |
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| April 07 | The Band With No Name | Otherwise known as The Good, The Bad and The Queen |
| April 07 | Out of This World |
The latest incarnation of The Beta Band - The Aliens... |
| March 07 | Bonjour, Simone! |
Au Revoir Simone and All That Hype |
| March 07 | Romanian Indie Revolution | Three new Romanian Indie bands |
| February 07 | Is the Indie scene intirinsically racist? Is it? Is it? | |
| January 07 | Freak Kid | Patrick Wolf iz za best |
| January 07 | The Hours | Why I hate The Hours |
| December 06 | The Bell Curve | My personal 'Album of the Year' |
| December 06 | Album of the year | I ask five Romanian 'trend setters' about their album of the year. Don't click if you can't read Romanian |
| November 06 | Paris! (ENG / RO) | "In a fight between contemporary artist Gillian Wearing and Paris Hilton, I know who I’d be rooting for…" |
| November 06 | Sam's Town | The Killers. Did you know their lead singer was a Mormon? |
| November 06 | Gulag Orkestar |
Blah blah blah blah |
| October 06 | ESG
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If you're expecting this article to be about anything other than the NYC punk-funk act ESG, then you're going to be disappointed |
| October 06 | What’s hot? |
Bands to watch |
| October 06 | Well done Robbie! | I really like Robbie Williams, and I'm not even joking |
| September 06 | Still Running the World | Jarvis Cocker, and a good excuse to get the word 'Cunt ' printed in a Romanian newspaper |
| September 06 | Lily Allen | I'm sorry for pretending to like Lilly Allen. I understand that in England this kind of behavior isn't acceptable any more. My apologies. |
| September 06 | Syd Barrett shakes off this mortal coil | |
| August 06 | “Something of an eccentric” | First ever article to appear in the Romanian press (in any press) about TRG. Do I get a prize? |
| August 06 | Let's Soft Rock! | Phoenix rock out in a mild-mannered kind of way |
| August 06 | Gnarls Who? | Barkley. Of course. |
| July 06 | “From the centre to the edges” |
The internet, and how it's changed the music industry |
| July 06 | 10 Reasons to Love Manele | I really like this article. It's a shame that unless you know what Manele is, it won't make a great deal of sense. Read it anyway. |
| June 06 | Prince Peculiar | Prince. His new LP. |
| March 06 | “I’m in terrible pain and want to die” | Sounds like a Morrissey lyric, right? You're wrong! It's not! |
| March 06 | She Should Be So Lucky | Kylie rant before she got sick and we weren't allowed to do that kind of thing |
| March 06 | Cashing In | Why Johnny Cash was shit |
| February 06 | The Right Chemistry | Girls Aloud rock |
| February 06 | Chaos and Creation | A bit about Macca, prior to all the Heather Mills nastiness |
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| January 06 | The Steel City |
Sheffield and Richard Hawley |
| Januray 06 | Chill Out | All about Lindstrom & Prins Thomas |
| December 05 | Credit to the Edit | I only wrote about Greg Wilson cos he's got the same last name as me |
| December 05 | Sex, drugs, guns and funk | Baile Funk. Apparently you're meant to call it F |
| November 05 | Zombocombo | I went to Munich and all I wrote is this lousy article... |
| November 05 | 'Constructive criticism' for the British Council. The girl who screamed "Get the fuck down, you Peasant" was Mihaela. The secret is out! | |
| October 05 | Monkey Business | 'Hottest new band in Britain'? Arctic Monkeys |
| October 05 | Come on Feel The Illinoise! | Folk folk folk Sufjan Stevens folk folk folk folk folk folk... |
| October 05 | I don't care what you say. The fact that Brett Anderson & Bernard Butler are back together makes me want to wee with excitement. | |
| September 05 | The Strange World of Aleister Crowley | I wrote this in an internet cafe in Tirgu Jiu. Just so that you know... |
| September 05 | Antony & the Johnsons. Of course, I have to pretend I don't like them, now they won the Mercury Music Award. | |
| August 05 | The Bribery (sorry, Bravery) cash in. | |
| August 05 | I hold my hands up, I got it wrong. Ladbrokes paid me handsomely, though... | |
| July 05 | The Odd Couple | White Stripes: music for soap commercials? |
| July 05 | Folk's Not Dead! | Bad title, I know, but my editor added it. And 'Punk's Not Dead' is something you see written all over the place in Romania, so there you go... |
| July 05 | The Other Radu Munteanu | The first article ever to appear in the Romanian press about The Model, signed to Gigolo records. And I wrote it. This makes me feel smug. |
| June 05 | "Ga-lan-ga-lang!" Music by refugees listened to by Guardian readers. Still good, though. | |
| June 05 | The Super Furry Animals start to grow up | |
| May 05 | Hextstatic! In Bucharest! | |
| May 05 | Listen to Dancehall and 'Grime' for a week and what happens? I shot three people and beat up two gays. | |
| April 05 | The Other Britain | Mike Skinner Vs Goldie Lookin' Chain. My money's on the cockney fella |
| March 05 | Death of the DJ | Yet another anti-DJ rant |
| March 05 | The New Glam | The Scissor Sisters and straight men acting gay |
| Feb 05 | A Decade of Division | 80s revival? I'll give you 80s revival |
| Feb 05 | Kings of Cool | Black music, Rroma music, all kinds of music |
