I Listened to 1,000 of the 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

I have the 2018 edition of Robert Dimery’s 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

It’s a good book! A very good book. You can see what’s in it here.

It was my l*ckd*wn project to listen to every single album from this book. And that’s the first and last time I’ll ever reference this atrocity of a year on this site.

Reader, I managed it. Shall I tell you what I thought?

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FCK LDN

I’m writing for an exciting new website called FCK LDN!

I’d like to pretend that it’s a community dedicated to lambasting Lily Allen’s horrible breakthrough single, but it’s not. Rather, it’s a site that sets out to highlight that there’s more to the UK than London; that our bustling capital receives an unfair proportion of arts funding and attention.

“FCK LDN is a new online magazine; a magazine that will do to London what every other magazine does to the rest of the UK.

It will pretend that it does not exist…”

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