One of the funny things about being a music journalist is the completely opposite ways the people in your life view your job. On the one hand, you have those friends and relatives who imagine that it must be really glamorous getting to rub shoulders with the stars (trust me, it isn’t – well, not [...]
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“Never meet your heroes…”
Posted by George Luke on November 8, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/%e2%80%9cnever-meet-your-heroes%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/
Freetown: the Geezer Has Landed…
Air France Flight AF774 landed at Lungi Airport sometime around five-ish on Sunday afternoon. The make-or-break moment of any trip to Sierra Leone – getting through the airport – turned out to be relatively painless. I’d spent half the flight mentally preparing myself to become the nasty hard-ass you have to be to survive the [...]
Posted by George Luke on April 26, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/freetown-the-geezer-has-landed/
Famous Sierra Leoneans, #1: Idris Elba
Known to millions of telly viewers as Stringer Bell in the crime series The Wire, London boy Idris is one of the finest British actors in recent years to find success stateside. Idrissa Akuna Elba was born in 1972 to a Ghanaian mother and a Sierra Leonean father. His journey from Hackney to Hollywood has seen him appear [...]
Posted by George Luke on January 19, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/famous-sierra-leoneans-1-idris-elba/
Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then I’ll begin…
I’m not a big fan of ‘reality’ TV shows, but one of them has been keeping me entertained quite a lot over the last few weekends. Not the show itself, so much as all the banter that you get on the two main social networking sites when it’s on. In fact, it’s become something of [...]
Posted by George Luke on October 31, 2010
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/are-you-sitting-comfortably-good-then-ill-begin/
10 things I’d have liked to see Hitler’s reaction to
It’s been nearly four months since Constantin Films (the company behind Downfall, the Oscar nominated film about Hitler’s last days) got Youtube to take down a rash of “Hitler reacts to…” videos, made using key scenes from the film. The first one I saw was the Fuhrer’s foul-mouthed reaction to the news of Michael Jackson’s [...]
Posted by George Luke on August 10, 2010
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/10-things-i%e2%80%99d-have-liked-to-see-hitler%e2%80%99s-reaction-to/
Novel-writing madness:
