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Go and see ‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern

2 weeks ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, April 9, 2025 I know it won’t come as a surprise to regular readers, but yes, I do think it is worth going to the Leigh Bowery! exhibition at Tate Modern at the moment, not least because, besides Bowery’s stuff being amazing, it comes with a sizeable dollop of the Fall right in the middle of it.
Age is just a number until you become music memorabilia

2 weeks ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, April 8, 2025 Sometimes before I go to the Finsbury Park Picturehouse cinema I hang out in a bar called Someday, which despite looking slightly imposingly hip from the outside is very relaxed, does ma-hooooooo-sive pizzas, and often has quite nostalgic indie playlists on.
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in March 2025

3 weeks ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, April 3, 2025 This monthly series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll straight past. Maybe you’ll unsubscribe thinking what did I see in this blog in the first place? You can find all of my one-line gig reviews here.
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in March 2025

3 weeks ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, March 31, 2025 I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously plans what to see. You can find all my one-line spoiler-free reviews here.
Enjoying the Broken Veil paranormal podcast

4 weeks ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, March 26, 2025 Among recent things that I have enjoyed, which you might enjoy too, is a new creepy paranormal podcast series called Broken Veil.
I missed a Duran Duran design exhibition … booooooo!

1 month ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, March 25, 2025 It looks like I missed a great event in London last week where there was an evening exhibition of Malcolm Garrett‘s design work for Duran Duran between 1981 and 1986, with members of the band in attendance. I didn’t realise it was happening otherwise I would have put on my gladrags and done my best to blag my way in. Duran Duran were the first band I would say I was properly a “fan” of. The first band I had a t-shirt of.
Andy Williams

1 month ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, March 10, 2025 As a few of my former colleagues at Reckless Records have done, I wanted to note the incredibly sad passing of Andy Williams, who I used to work with in the shop in the 1990s. Nobody ended up working in specialist music retail in the 1990s by accident, absolutely everybody was there because they were passionate about music and were involved in the industry in some capacity.
A one-line spoiler-free review of all three things I watched in the cinema in February 2025

1 month ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, March 5, 2025 I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously plans what to see. You can find all my one-line spoiler-free reviews here.
Go and see Mike Kelley’s Ghost and Spirit at Tate Modern before it closes

1 month ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, March 4, 2025 From my “I enjoyed this, you might enjoy it too” files, I urge you to go and see Mike Kelley’s Ghost and Spirit exhibition at the Tate Modern if you can before it closes at the end of this week.
Do you have five minutes to help a student with their survey about live music events and wellbeing?

1 month ago | martinbelam.com | Martin Belam

by Martin Belam, March 3, 2025 Hi, it’s me. Yet again asking you to help out with somebody’s degree research. In this case it is a survey looking at personality traits, wellbeing, and the frequency of attending live music events.