by Andy Dodd | Mar 30, 2015 | Arts, On My Mind, Reviews
When I first listened to the new Steven Wilson album, ‘Hand. Cannot. Erase.’, I posted to Facebook that I had “goosebumps within the first minute”. It’s the kind of record that grips you from the very start and draws you into its...
by Andy Dodd | Mar 29, 2015 | Extemplo
They really should introduce colour coded lanes for navigating airport terminals. Red would be a ‘no stopping, continuous movement’ channel for people who actually want to go to their gate, know where they’re going and basically have their s***...
by Andy Dodd | Mar 22, 2015 | Arts, On My Mind
One morning in late January 2006, bailiffs from a housing trust in west London broke into a flat to repossess a property that had fallen into arrears. It should have been a routine procedure, just another sad statistic to add to the thousands of hard luck stories that...
by Andy Dodd | Mar 10, 2015 | Extemplo
I’m an great admirer of Apple; I think the company does some tremendously innovative things. But just because you admire something doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be critical of it from time to time. I think the regular priced Apple Watch Sport is a...
by Andy Dodd | Mar 9, 2015 | Extemplo
After the ham-fisted way they handled dropping Kevin Pietersen, it’s not really surprising. Only in England would we drop our best player and then proceed to stink out a tournament we won just a few years ago. The problem for cricket in this country at least is...