When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which I ended up putting on promotional badges: “BASS CULTURE IS FOLK ...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”.