John Harris C/D

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.

*** ****!

(***)

M1r14M? Haven't seen her in forever either. Isn't she in London now? If you ever bump into her, tell her I said hi.

xpost Hari mentioned above appears on Late Review often enough, and is SOUND.

-- N_RQ (bl0cke...), September 26th, 2005.

as far as i know she's been in london for years, like since 1999 or so. used to bump into her at loads of gigs, but not for ages now. think she works for un1v3rs4l or someone in the catalogue dept.

frank, how did you come to rock so fuckin' hard?

-- N_RQ (bl0cke...), September 16th, 2005 2:45 AM.

xpost hahaha oh noes

fucken = US/everett true

But ILX is in WaM isn't it? Therefore....

The only thing I am jealous of is John Harris's living in Hay-on-Wye because I imagine it is a quiet place to get one's typing done, and you lot for knowing who ***** ******* is.

I am in Young and Foolish. Don't know the page number off the top of my head, but I like to think it is a low point in that book from most readers' point of view.

'i would like to feed your fucken fingertips to the fucken wolverines'

[falls dead to the fucken floor, clutching fucken chest]

http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/spring03/photographers/michellebottone/Brassai/pictures/henrymillerindoorway,1933.jpg

N_RQ, yesterday

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.