Tom Kerswill

If you see lots of rubbish pop music appearing on my last.fm profile, that’s because I’m showing my parents the last.fm recommended music program. Okay?

Went to a slightly shambolic reggae festival in Platt Fields park, Manchester, on Saturday. With the festival staring over 3 hours late, most performers ended up only being on stage for a couple of songs. And quality was variable… I also almost narowly escape food-poising from a piece of jerk-chicken, but counter-acted it by drinking an evil-tasting concoction of Jamaican spinach… hmmmm…

Whilst looking at upcoming events in Manchester, I stumbled upone this page. They’re doing a gig in a swimming pool in Manchester soon. The music looks and sounds bizarre…. does anyone know whether it’s genuine??

Thief ‘drinks’ work of art
An artist’s latest work - a bottle of melted Antarctic ice - may have been stolen and drunk by a thirsty thief.

Artist Wayne Hill filled a two-litre clear plastic bottle with melted ice to highlight global warming.

But the artwork, valued at £42,500, went missing while on display at a literary festival, reports the Scotsman.

Entitled Weapon of Mass Destruction, it vanished halfway through the Ways with Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon.

Mr Hill said: “It looked like an ordinary bottle of water, but it was on a plinth, labelled, described and in the programme of the whole festival.

“It was very, very clear what it was - a work of art.”

The work uses water taken from the threatened west Antarctic ice sheet, which is currently melting at the rate of 250 cubic kilometres a year, he said.

Mr Hill added: “Nobody has any idea what has happened to it. It was there and then it was gone.”

I was staying at a student house up in Manchester the other day and witnessed a fight over the TV remote - about whether to watch Big Brother or Celebrity Love Island. Made me very very glad I don’t have a TV. Steve Lawson has found a painfully close-to-the-bone review of the latter.

I’ve just created a category for everything that doesn’t fit in anywhere else.. and to celebrate that here’s a little nugget of advice trawled from the net:

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