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Flat 34 #7: Holloway Road

deek — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:33:41 +0000

The Holloway Road, the A1, red river of metal that cuts through Islington like a molten tributary, runs from Highbury Corner up to Archway, whence it continues to Edinburgh, Scotland. After 24 years, I have mixed feelings about this place, as this episode of Flat 34 explains.

Girls Of Today

deek — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:19:01 +0000

I was cycling back from the party last night, and I had not one but three song ideas one after the other. Of course, I recorded them all on my phone. And then, as I came past Mount Pleasant sorting office, where brave postal workers have recently been striking for a living wage, I found myself spontaneously articulating a poem about girls, boys and glitter. Quite why it arrived in a Scottish accent beats me – perhaps it’s a sign of long-held regard for the great William McGonagall.

George Square, Glasgow: One Statue Worships Another

deek — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:50:15 +0000

Glasgow, 2007. Inflatable statues bend and sway in the May sunlight in George Square, amid tents celebrating Swedish football. I stared at them; their movements seemed bizarre, as if retching, drunk, the elbow crease of escaping air resembling a stomach convulsing, heaving. Conversely, the arms waved as if in perpetual supplication, in a slavish dance of worship. Such is football.