I was sat in the evening sun catching up with a mate in her back garden when she hit me with it. In her lovely but brutal scouse accent. “Fookin hell mate, you’ve got a few grey hairs on top there lad!” I had noticed them a few days before to be honest, and they […]
Mon Pere, Ma Hero
I don’t think my Dad really cares about Father’s Day. There’s no doubt that these celebratory days are nothing more than a commercial exercise. But I have been meaning to write this for some time and as it happens I finished it just before Father’s Day, so it seemed appropriate to reference it. Father’s Day […]
Book Reviews – The Descent of Man
Over the last couple of years I became more and more aware of Grayson Perry largely through his appearances on Have I Got News For You, so I was intrigued to hear that he had written a book on masculinity. It’s a subject I have thought about more and more, perhaps as I have matured […]
6 bands I love that you will never have heard of
I’m in a nostalgic mood at the moment, which you’ll be aware of if you read my “Ode to the Indie Disco” and recently on my Facebook one of those memories things popped up with a post of mine from about 4 years ago promoting a series of club Lazy Genius gigs at Bumper. Incredibly […]
Gym Diary
Gym Diary I am not a gym person. When I told my mates I had joined the gym at the start of this year (don’t call it a new year’s resolution) one of them said he was “shaken to the core.” I’m not going to try and argue against the positive impact of staying fit, […]
New Year – Same Old Me
It’s that time of year where everyone tells themselves they are going to be a better person, get fitter, eat better, drink less… become a vegan! At least just for the month of January. Veganuary? Jesus. We should all accept it’s a load of bollocks by now. I have nothing wrong with people wanting to […]
Masculinity &: Motors
In this series on the blog, Masculinity &: I look at Masculinity and men’s relationships with everything from food to fashion, sport to sickness… Men & Motors I’m afraid if you think this is going to be some sort of nostalgic look back on soft porn digital channel of the 90s, a symbol in many […]
How to shop the sales
There are some decent summer sales on at the moment with final reductions of up to 70% at the likes of REISS, Topman, BoohooMAN and with my favourite designers stores END. and Aphrodite1994. Now I love a sale as much as the next man but as I’m sure you’ve all found, shopping in the sales […]
Review: Jack Wills Sportswear
“They’re designed for life, whether you’re running a 10k or for the bus. Exclusively available online and in store at Soho, Covent Garden and Heathrow.” Yeah right, no one who wears Jack Wills is ever willingly on a bus! I would imagine that any that are, are firm believers in the adage that if you […]
The strange beauty of a betting shop
Sometimes when I want to get away from it all, relax, forget my troubles, I go to the bookies. For the uninitiated amongst you bookies is short for bookmaker. The betting shop. Somewhere you can go and wager money on whether a horse will win or finish somewhere between 1st and 4th. Or if you’d […]