criticalbill's breakdown

There once was a man from Crete, who got limericks and haiku to meet He said it was mad And also quite sad to try the unlikely feat

The cup of tea I left beside the bed is cold. It was too hot when I first put it to my lips; it stung me with the lash of adolescent rage, a...

1 The poet's not talking bout something that needs explanation The poem is the explanation It's the best they could do I have...

Let’s try a little piano recital again. I thought I’d try and make use out of Kings Place, seeing as I’m there all the time, and they ha...

A thinly attended (he had apparently reservations for the whole place but without taking money, so only half the people turned up) warmu...

The swirl of reviews and is up, opinions swooping and swarming, crashing into each other, firing their laser vigour out into the deepest gal...

About half way through Joker I wondered what I would say if someone asked me what I thought of the film. “It doesn’t matter what I thin...

  Philip Jeck This happened in October, but I forgot to press go on this until today It was a strange one at the Union Chapel, ...

Your face to the mace You may grimace You’ll be a-maced following when Thou mayst read Of Mace and Men

 I am smiling  I am smiling but I am also tired  I am still smiling despite being so tired that i am crying  I am a dog  I am...

This is not going to be a review. Nor am I, though it did briefly occur to me, going to do it in a Simon Armitage-like poem, thereby making ...

I suffer from mental health problems I have to take antidepressants and antipsychotics Because it's just I used to self-harm, and it...

I first came across Scottee in Edinburgh 2010 I think. I wrote in this blog at the time that he was unquestionably a star, immensely likeab...

Back on more familiar ground for me, with soul legend Leroy Hutson in town. A cult name on the rare groove scene of the late 80s and early 9...

If you ever, as I once did, discover a love for Chopin's piano pieces, you will inevitably find yourself listening to Maurizio Pollini. ...