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My Geppetto #2: Lizzie Nunnery on Graham Coxon

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10/07/09
by Nick Holloway

A series of interviews exploring the influences of some of our favourite artists and clever clogses... who is your Geppetto?For the second in the series, we’ll hear from Lizzie Nunnery. A songwriter and playwright, her first play, Intemperance, was shown at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre in 2007 (review in The Guardian, 28/09/2007). Her new folk / storytelling night, Almanac, starts tonight in Liverpool.What.. More

My Geppetto: Nathan Jones on Kenneth Koch

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04/07/09
by Nick Holloway

A series of interviews exploring the influences of some of our favourite artists and clever clogses... who is your Geppetto?For this first in the series, we’ll hear from Mercy Creative Director, Nathan Jones, who starts his role as Bluecoat Poet in Residence this month.What artist / human / thing(s) are you most influenced by?Kenneth Koch (portrait, by Alex Katz, above). Poet of the New York School.What.. More

Wimbledon Live-Blog Take 3: Men's Singles Semi-Final Special

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03/07/09
by Nick Holloway

This page will not refresh automatically every 15 seconds. We simply don’t have the technology. But keep checking back!18.44 And that, as they say, is that. Roddick beats Murray 6-4 4-6 7-6 7-6. Still: plenty more in him before he retires, unlike here, where I think the law of diminishing returns set in about four thirty. It only remains to take up the chant: U-S-A, U-S-A... 18.31 Oh dear. Murray’s.. More

Wimbledon Live-Blog (continued)

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25/06/09
by Nick Holloway

This page will not refresh automatically every 15 seconds. We simply don’t have the technology. But keep checking back!19.05 Murraycam backstage: yes, like most of our most brilliant sportsmen, Murray is a boring bastard. He’s using the same program the commentary team use to spit out clichés. He should speak in Robert Burns style dialect to mix it up a bit. Through to the third round, though! And.. More

A Wimbledon Live-Blogging Experiment

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24/06/09
by Nick Holloway

This page will not refresh automatically every 15 seconds. We simply don’t have the technology. But keep checking back! 17.00 The commentators are just saying what a lovely day it is. I’ll be kicking myself if the Federer result isn’t as predictable as I think, but I’m not going to stick around to find out. Like they said, it’s SUNNY out there! Off to the park...16.44 John Barrett’s poison of choice.. More