bernard o’rourke

There’s a lyric on the manic, discoish lead single of Past Pupil Stay Sane that goes: “Man in the pub said play Neil Young / Or a Leonard Cohen song / Play us something we can all sing along / we’re tired of listening to your shitty oul…

Fat White Family Songs for Our Mothers At some point in the wake of their 2013 debut album Champagne Holocaust, somebody accused Fat White Family of being fascists. Far for attempting any kind of ham-fisted damage control, the Brixton…

‘The Second Coming’ by WB Yeats is a tricky one. Despite being one of his weirder, more esoteric works, it remains a staple of his celebrated poems. But if you back an English teacher into the corner even they might have trouble telling you…