John Harris C/D

I can't stand him asa writer. As a radio voice... bearable.

Never really rated his writing, and he did think Dodgy was the future in 1994, but a nice enough bloke.

I think he is OK.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306813424/qid=1127606359/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-4786399-1457555?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I wish I lived in Hay-on-Wye.

Some of you stay up very late, I see.

The first version (sans sassy horns) of the Are You Being Served? theme tune is very like Money. I wonder if John Harris will mention that in his book.

He represented the Hay-on-Wye Book Festival on University Challenge (growed-ups version) recently. They thoughtfully made the buzzer question on the music round a Pink Floyd song. I'd have guffawed heartily had he not been first on the buzzer, however he was.

I used to like Select. Also I know his cousin. So I'll say classic by default, as I can't really think of a real reason he could classified as dud.

2. Face and hair of a yokel simpleton.

3. "Whatever, Paul."

That'll do for a start.

as to

1. Washed-up music hack with nothing to say about music any more looking to make a living for the next 40 years at the expense of better writers who don't happen to be shagging ***** ******.

i dunno who he's shagging but the point is jh isn't writing much about music now -- he doesn't claim to be on the cutting edge at any rate, and has branched out to write about other things. he's not bad at it since he manages to avoid the westminster village gatekeeper pose adopted by almost every other commentator.

the scottish one? how the devil is she? not seen her in aeons...

haha, i was at wadham.

dunno who these people are, though.

[give them something else to do]

caption competition

paul morley to john harris on the late review this week: "John, you're full of Shreck"

i started this thead. he has got huge recently, reporting for newsnight (proper) and stuff. he should seriously stop talking and writing about music.

JOHN HARRIS RIP

The tribute thread.

His Sgt. Pepper piece in Mojo a few months ago (a cover!) was an atrocity. Liking the record is one thing, going all mouth-agape at the idea that someone might think the Undertones or the Abyssinians made a better one is brutally stupid.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_harris/2008/04/hillary_for_president.html

As if JH's writing wasn't bad enough: hear him spouting it for one minute in his loft.

Worst thing on current.tv since the last "HERE IS AN EXCITING SHOREDITCH BASED FASHION DESIGNER" pod.

Nice job, blinky.

Someone please insert themselves into that video a la Fatal Farm's "Doogie Howser MD" remix.

Nice to see him supporting the white candidate for a change.

"now lots of people say toast is "genius" and "groundbreaking" but have you ever listened to it? john harris has and it's rubbish."

-- acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:12 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

^^^shame this guy hung himself, this is a great post

well, fortunately i wasn't able to see the vlog, but if he's supporting hillary, fuck him and fuck the guardian.

He should be supporting Aunt Sally for President hyuk hyuk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/dec/22/christmas-shopping

Harris at a motorway service station

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8330633.stm

He is a paid-up fan of bands it took me until I was 30 to even discover

This after opening two pars talking about how the wee lad hasn’t had to spend any money to hear this music, in contrast to Harris’ five-figure spend?

A good example: though I've always heard plenty of talk about the utter awfulness of such infamous albums as Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (a double album of guitar feedback and white noise) or Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra (don't ask), I can now listen to them for nothing, and have an opinion of my own.

They're both terrible, incidentally, but that isn't the point. What really matters is the fact that I can so easily tune in - and what that says about a new world of completely risk-free listening.

Who do you want to investigate today: TV On The Radio or Crosby, Stills and Nash? Do you fancy losing yourself in the brilliant first album by Florence And The Machine, or deriving no end of entertainment from how awful The Rolling Stones got in the 1980s? Little Richard or La Roux? White Lies or Black Sabbath?

As one of my music press colleagues use to say, there's no longer any past - just an endless present.

you post links and quotes don't you

no

He's not the John Harris who runs The People's United Community, is he? They're behaving like nutters in Birmingham.

Ugh his "plight of a Conservative" columns are the absolute worst. Like of all the people who deserve sympathy in the country at this moment, it's certainly not paternalistic grandees or garden variety Home Counties xenophobes.

can understand why Harris would be down with one nation Tories tbh

John Harris

Don't dismiss public fears about migration as bigotry

oh fuck him and fuck everyone who enables him and REALLY fuck every bigoted middle england idiot he's talking about

it's not even about ukip and the daily mail at this point, it drives me mad that so-called liberals tie themselves in such rhetorical knots to prove that ~ordinary people are not racist bigots

when they REALLY REALLY ARE, more than their comedy mouthpieces in the national press and politics could ever dream of being. paul dacre and nigel farage are tolerant lefties compared w/your average somerset villager

Perhaps those who reduce people’s worries and fears to mere bigotry should go back to first principles, and consider whether, in such laissez-faire conditions, free movement has been of most benefit to capital or labour. They might also think about the dread spectacle of people from upscale London postcodes passing judgment on people who experience large-scale migration as something real.

lol

can't understand how a guy who started out repping for Britpop and New Labour ended up being a reactionary apologist for oh hang on

lol restricting movement of labour while capital continues to move freely and at speed wd sure be a win for working ppl everywhere

Capital migration would be fine if it were taxed properly; labour migrants pay tax wherever they happen to land.

I'm so *tired* of all this pursuit of the bigot vote; its effect on everyday life is absolutely toxic. I'd like to quarantine UKIP to whatever 19th hole hell from whence they came. Politicians need to stop pandering to bigots who want A Discussion About Immigration. There could be full employment with a Living Wage and these people would still want to Discuss Immigration.

My central London postcode has rich and poor people in it, from every country you can think of, living mostly happy lives alongside one another. People in upscale (I hate the word 'upscale' FTR) London postcodes are fine with migration and foreigner neighbours as long as a) their kids get places at the same fee-paying schools they went to and b) it's not rich Russians moving in, who make Good Help so Difficult to Find These Days because they're gazumping the available nannies and housekeepers.

He is so hideous, the sooner he fucking dies the better.