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03 Oct 11:30am

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One day you’re picking schoolyard scabs off your knees, the next you realise you can’t remember the last time you bent them without triggering an ache.


Some bits droop, others produce goop, and don’t get us started on stray hairs.

You’ve barely farewelled the final pimple when you notice the hairline fractures spreading across your face, and before too long you’re dealing with hangovers that last infinitely longer than the original drinking session.

Then you realise you need to rock – maybe just a little bit – to gain the momentum to get off the couch.

Today’s reminder that we’re old comes from the phenomenon known as ‘Gangnam Style’. Viral does not begin to describe this video from South Korean sensation PSY.

It has been viewed almost 350m times on YouTube, parodied countless times, and its poppy surrealism is so wildly popular journo Simon Crerar was prompted this week to ask:

Is Gangnam Style going to break the internet?

Obviously this is not the first pop sensation that makes many of us think we’re just getting too old for this shit (we’re looking at you, Bieber). But the hysteria around Gangnam Style has left us (well, OK, me, the anonymous Puncher writing this) feeling doddery and confused and… left behind.

It’s catchy, it’s quirky, the dance looks like it could be quite fun. PSY is coming to Australia, which will only heighten the pants-wetting levels of excitement. SBS is even getting in on the action, announcing it will go ‘Gangnam Style’ in some unfathomable way.

But come on, it’s just a pop song. Isn’t it? Or are we just too old to get it?

We’ll leave you with the English translation of one of the verses, which frankly made us cup a hand around an ear, screw up our face, and go: Whaaa-aaa-aat?

A girl who is warm and humanly during the day
A classy girl who know how to enjoy the freedom of a cup of coffee
A girl whose heart gets hotter when night comes
A girl with that kind of twist

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    • Mick In The Hills says:

      11:53am | 03/10/12

      When you get to a certain age, if nothing is hurting when you wake up in the morning, you’re probably dead.

      Reply

    • ibast says:

      12:24pm | 03/10/12

      These days I moan when picking something up or bending over, even though nothing is really hurting.  I’m not sure where that comes from and it makes me feel older than I really am.

    • Anne71 says:

      01:40pm | 03/10/12

      Hearing songs from your teenage years on a “golden oldies” station definitely makes you feel old… :/

    • Carolyn says:

      01:59pm | 03/10/12

      @ Anne71

      The first time I heard a radio station introduce a Duran Duran song as a “classic oldie” it was a VERY rude awakening!!

      ....and experiencing the fashions of my teens (fluro yellow & pink) come around…..for the third time!

      ....seeing the “25th Anniversary Release/Edition” of movies such as Pretty in Pink (and comparing Jon Cryer then….to now)!! Next year, it will be 25 years since ‘Dirty Dancing’ was released…....

    • Woodsy says:

      11:38am | 03/10/12

      Welcome to the Macarena of the new millennium, it didn’t make sense then and not much has changed since.

      Reply

    • KH says:

      12:55pm | 03/10/12

      Macarena
      Shadduppa you face
      Australiana
      Don’t worry be happy
      I’m too sexy
      Gangnam style

      Its happened before, and it will happen again…....... grin

    • Thermite says:

      11:59am | 03/10/12

      Ear hair was what bothered me most. I could never understand the reason for ear hairs but as my peripheral vision goes I realise we are meant to use it, rather like a rat uses its whiskers, to avoid slamming our heads into things.

      Reply

    • Mahhrat says:

      11:49am | 03/10/12

      Because I browse Reddit in the wee hours, I managed to read up a little on “Gangnam Style”.  From memory:

      Gangnam is a region in South Korea known for a lot of what we might call “poseurs” - people who try to live a life well beyond their means.

      The lyrics don’t translate well, but basically PSY is lamenting his inability as a member of the “Gangnam Style” to find a “genuine” woman.

      What gets interesting is when you look at the clip above, he appears to be relaxing under an umbrella on a beach, when it pans back to reveal a suburban playground.

      He is in a sauna hanging out with Korean mobsters - you notice the big guy looking at him with disgust for this reason.

      He parodies riding a horse (you need serious $$ in Korea to own horses) but you never see him riding a horse.

      He moves with pretty ladies on his arms through a long, confetti-filled breeze, except at the start it’s just rubbish and dead leaves.

      It’s actually a hilarious and (according to that source I read) incredibly accurate pisstake of the culture of the Gangnam region.  If you accept all that, it’s a very, very creative bit of work.

      Apart from that, it’s Eurovision-level KPop, which is huge over there and this bloke is a legend of the scene.

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      12:37pm | 03/10/12

      That’s not quite it, Gangnam was this plot of nothing near Seoul in the late 70s which was ear marked for massive development under Korea’s supernaturally advanced planning regime. Like, think about the planning regime in whatever tin pot State Government you’re administered by, then it gets bitten by a radioactive spider, and is also Tetsuo in Akira. That’s the level of awesome of Korean infrastructure planning. Like, they laid much of their fibreoptic cable in 1998. For a country under perpetual siege by psychotic barbarians they have their shit locked down.

      Anyway, so Gangnam was intended to be a new, middle class residential district and they planned for all these towers to go up. But people already lived there, they were blue collar factory workers for the most part, from a post WW2/Korean War industrial boom, or else they were dirt farmers who’d lived around Seocho and Songpa forever. They owned the land, or little plots of it, and the Korean Government had to buy it off them to start re-developing it. In the process, they created a new class of suddenly ultra wealthy landed gentry, like, Korean bogans basically, who over night had more money than they knew what to do with.

      This ran counter to the Korean working class narrative of working hard, dieing, and knowing one day, one of your grandchildren would go to a good university. Koreans looked at Gangnam and realised there was another, more attractive prospect to slaving away in an office. You could slave away in an office, and then go out at night and party with your tie around your head. A Hermes tie.

      So Gangnam is this incredible social experiment in what happens when you take your aspirational class and give them a metropolis instead of a suburb, like we do. It’s vibrant, cool and attractive for investment.

      The thing about Koreans living beyond their means is actually not limited to Gangnam. They have a national average credit card debt of 166% of personal income per person. The Government openly encourages this, because the Korean government is the principal lender of choice and interest rates are low. If you’re a finance wonk, there’s a lot of really interesting, crunchy number theory around it, and was completely planned. Basically instead of doing what Rudd did, and tackling the 08 down turn through cash stimulus, Korea freed up credit and created a retail stimulus because projected future wages will increase, they have no unemployment really, and eventually, they project everyone can pay those debts off.

      Korea is really an amazing country. In Japan, you feel like an alien, but in Korea, you feel like you’re visiting the future. The women are just cute as buttons as well. I’d move there.

    • KH says:

      12:58pm | 03/10/12

      Well there you go then….................thanks for the enlightenment - now it seems much funnier!

    • Mahhrat says:

      01:43pm | 03/10/12

      That’s brilliant Zeta, thanks!

      I would love to live in Korea for the gaming culture if nothing else.  Those dudes take their e-gaming very, very seriously.

    • DOB says:

      02:46pm | 03/10/12

      Zeta, that a little bit over-rosy. If they have no unemployment how come some Korean sex workers and trafficking have been a problem internationally for some time now?

      South Korea is - to some extent - a civilian society run by a background military system, with the binding links being the Chaebol. Unlike China’s State Owned Entities these seem to fly below the radar of sensitive types like Barnaby Joyce but - like Singapore’s autocratic capitalism - they are there.

      As for planning, check out the population and then a map and see how many people are squashed into that tiny space at the end of the Korean peninsula. South Korea is well planned because there are no alternatives.

      Most importantly, remember that Korea, and Koreans, are wonderful but it aint all rosy in K-Land…

    • Chris L says:

      03:48pm | 03/10/12

      You find buttons cute Zeta? There’s gotta be a word for that.

    • Tator says:

      03:51pm | 03/10/12

      Mahrat,
      get those fingers warmed up as the South Koreans are Starcraft freaks of nature.  Blizzard even changed the balance between the races in Starcraft 2 just for the Korean market due to the amount the game was played there and how they played it.  Basically they had to nerf the Zerg as the Koreans rocked the Zerg Rush.

    • Lloyd says:

      12:01pm | 03/10/12

      It’s just like everything else, people exploit the hell out of it until it becomes a severe annoyance and then the next thing comes along. Most popular music is just horseshit nowadays, I am 28 but I only listen to stuff from the late 70s. This is why.

      Reply

    • Ohcomeon says:

      01:14pm | 03/10/12

      Youre just out of touch if you think that this bit of pop fluff represents modern music in any way whatsoever.

      Any way, PSY is a bona fide entertainer. Goddamn genius. I pity people who are too cool to like a groovy pop hook.

    • Markus says:

      01:00pm | 03/10/12

      You’re living in denial if you truly believe the 70s didn’t dish up the exact same amount of crap. You’re just young enough to have had time filter most of it out for you.

      Bands like Led Zeppelin were not popular music.

    • Tubesteak says:

      03:33pm | 03/10/12

      I was into groovy pop hooks before they were cool…..which means they were daggy…...oh crap

    • Markus says:

      12:20pm | 03/10/12

      The entire appeal of Gangnam Style lies in the fact that it cannot actually be taken seriously.
      The lyrics are nonsensical, the video ridiculous, and there is no possible way to look cool while doing the dance.
      It is the ultimate pisstake on everything pop music has become in recent years.

      That you seem to think there is actually a hysteria surrounding Gangnam Style does indeed show your age.

      Reply

    • Gordon says:

      02:02pm | 03/10/12

      Not sure about hysteria exactly, but they take it seriously over at New Matilda…there is an 3 page essay on the deep cultural significance of Gangnam Style, with a long responses, full of big important words.

    • tez says:

      12:05pm | 03/10/12

      When you get grey hair you will have to expect that very young woman will feel the need to explain every thing to you.

      Reply

    • Nikki says:

      12:07pm | 03/10/12

      I for one am glad to live in a country where a cup of coffee isn’t considered a great freedom worth celebrating in song. Much prefer songs about “drunk sex feelings”, whoreing it up in a club and being in Miami, bitch.

      Reply

    • fml says:

      12:30pm | 03/10/12

      The little break dancing kid at the beginning of the video, is he up for adoption?

      What a champion, steals the show.

      Reply

    • Tim says:

      12:16pm | 03/10/12

      It’s meant to be a pisstake.

      I think certain journalists now commenting on Gangnam Style is certainly showing us their age.

      Reply

    • Admiral Ackbar says:

      03:08pm | 03/10/12

      I wouldn’t go too hard on them though. I don’t even know where I am right now, and I’m still trying to figure out wtf a Pokemon is. It’s either a hatch back, or a favourable medical condition of the ‘balls area’.

    • nihonin says:

      06:32pm | 03/10/12

      ‘I’m still trying to figure out wtf a Pokemon is. It’s either a hatch back, or a favourable medical condition of the ‘balls area’.

      Or what Tasmania’s do to their mums.

    • TheRealDave says:

      12:19pm | 03/10/12

      Pretty Fly for a White Guy with an Asian and accompanied by awesome dance moves.

      Its a piss take. Sheesh, I’m ‘old’ and even I got it.

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      12:21pm | 03/10/12

      PSY’s sleeveless tuxedo shirts are this summer’s pastel shorts for bros. Seriously. You get air flow in those like you won’t beleive and you’ll wonder why you’ve been wearing sleeves this whole time. And you can wear them with anything. Going to the beach? Sleeveless tuxedo shirt. Going to the football? Sleeveless tuxedo shirt. Sitting at home, watching Girls alone and crying? Sleeveless tuxedo shirt. They need a better name though, because ‘sleeveless tuxedo shirt’ is kind of a mouthful. I propose ‘Tuxedo Beater’.

      The problem with the world today (f*** that DOES sound old), but seriously, the problem is people are surrounded by advertising pitched at demographics defined by age. So people become defined by their age, because they’re being bombarded with messages about it everyday. You hit 25, and suddenly, you’re not marketed to the same way anymore. you hit 35, you’re in the same pitch market as 55 year olds. Is it any wonder people start to feel old, and out of touch?

      You start to hear people say ‘I’m too old for that’, well, no actually you’re not really it’s just the advertisements for whatever that is are no longer being pitched at your level. Look at the Nintendo DS - great example of a company cornering an entire market and looking to expand into different demos. Suddenly, your Nan feels empowered to go out and by one and play Mario because the TV tells her its ok.

      That is something that only happens in the West. We have an entire mass media marketing regime built around demographic samples defined by seemingly arbitrary age groups. This is Taylor Swift, she is for 7-19 year olds. This is Rhianna. She is for 16-25 year olds. This is Adele. She is for 19-35 year olds. And once you hit 35, as far as the actuaries calculating this are concerned, you might as well be dead, because you aren’t spending sufficent money on music for them to care, because statistical modeling shows you listen to things you bought already back when you were inside a demo that mattered. Here is some Michael Buble.

      They don’t do that in Japan, they don’t do that in Korea, and the Chinese mainland music industry is too weird and poor to do it at all. In Korea, instead of asking, what appeals to this narrow demo to whom we can cross sell other products, they ask, what appeals to everyone, all the time. And then they do that, all the time. 350 million page views can’t be wrong. That song gets bowled up to Sony BMG and they say ‘who’s going to listen to it’ and Korean agent says ‘everyone’ and they laugh. And yet that’s exactly what happened.

      Why does the West do this and the East don’t? Because in the West, we have huge disparity between incomes across age demos. If you’re 35, they want you to feel bad about consuming a product intended for 19 year olds, because you can afford to consume more expensive products. Kind of like nudge theory.  This is One Direction, buy the album on iTunes, buy the video clip, buy the ring tone, buy the t-shirt. That’s it. That’s your pocket money, or your allowance, or your part time job. If a 35 year old does the same thing it’s a wasted opportunity. They want 35 year olds to buy the 7 disc Nirvana box set with a gold cast numbered lock of Courtney’s pubes. That’s your demo, that’s your age group, that’s the product you can afford. 99c for a pop song is not feeding some Sony exec enough Veuve - they need you to step up old man, here, here’s every single James Bond movie, now with audio commentary by the ghost of Albert Broccoli.

      In the East, for a variety of reasons, young people and older people all have roughly the same disposable income if they have any at all. So there’s no sense tailoring special products to individuals, just get everyone to buy everything for cheaper and in larger quantities. Even Korean Nan’s love Hyuna. Middle aged Japanese men are huge fans of whatever 19 strong pop idol group is big this week. Because there’s no nudge from advertisers on what is and is not appropriate media consumption.

      So no, basically, you are not too old to get it. Koreans are not too old to get it. White people are just the victims of more insidious marketing techniques.

      Reply

    • Mahhrat says:

      01:24pm | 03/10/12

      This is one of the best posts I’ve seen in years.

      “They want 35 year olds to buy the 7 disc Nirvana box set with a gold cast numbered lock of Courtney’s pubes.”

      Zeta, take a bow, and help yourself to as much internet as you’d like on your way out.

    • Carolyn says:

      02:02pm | 03/10/12

      @ Zeta

      I stand and applaud! Well said. Absolutely brilliant.

    • SydneyGirl says:

      02:12pm | 03/10/12

      Zeta this must mean I am old because though your posts are often entertaining at the heart of all your analysis there is a…. nothingness. But maybe that is the point.

      “In Korea, instead of asking, what appeals to this narrow demo to whom we can cross sell other products, they ask, what appeals to everyone, all the time”

      This is the strategy in Asia, e.g. Thailand, Bollywood etc - its because in the East entertainment is consumed as a family. Doesn’t make it any less crap or less insidous or stupid. If anything it is typical of a Westerner to make a big deal of it, to define their coolness or not based on their understanding of Gangnam and the like - Gangnam in fact is exactly the kind of silly pisstake common in the East. And to believe that there are no dissenting opinions from older Asians on the kind of entertainment that fills the air….you should know that there is a huge nostalgia industry in Asia for old melodies and like here it often demonstrates the generational divide.

    • Tubesteak says:

      03:50pm | 03/10/12

      “You start to hear people say ‘I’m too old for that’, well, no actually you’re not really”

      Wrong. I am too old for some things. I’m too old to go out and get shit-faced. These days a few beers and I start feeling giddy. Then I get tired and I want to go to bed. I also get bloated. I also want to be in bed by 11 so I can get a good night’s sleep. Also, I don’t want to ruin my weekend by spending it on the couch with a hang-over. I only get two days off every week and spend every other day in a soul-crushing office just to earn money. I want to enjoy my two days off and make it as pleasurable as possible.

      “And once you hit 35, as far as the actuaries calculating this are concerned, you might as well be dead, because you aren’t spending sufficent money on music for them to care, because statistical modeling shows you listen to things you bought already back when you were inside a demo that mattered”

      This applies to me. I haven’t listened to anything new since the late-90s when I got into Hard NRG and Trance. I’m not that into it now. I haven’t bought any new type of music or new type of band since then. All of today’s music sux. The only good stuff made today is by bands that were around in the early- to mid-90s such as Rammstein, Tool and Marilyn Manson. The Foo Fights used to be good and so was NIN but after 2000 they sucked, too.

      “They want 35 year olds to buy the 7 disc Nirvana box set with a gold cast numbered lock of Courtney’s pubes”

      Shut up and take my money!

    • Kerryn says:

      12:40pm | 03/10/12

      And for some strange reason I now have the Hamster Dance stuck in my head.  Thank you, Punch.

      Reply

    • KH says:

      12:59pm | 03/10/12

      I’ll help. Remember the crazy frog?  Is that better?!!!!

    • Alicia says:

      01:15pm | 03/10/12

      As do I now. Thank you, Kerryn.

    • Carolyn says:

      02:22pm | 03/10/12

      And thanks to you all, not only have I the Hamster Dance, and Crazy Frog…I’ve also that damn Dancing Baby from Ally McBeal in my head!

      “ooga-chaka-ooga-chaka-ooga-chaka-I-can’t-fight-this-ooga-chaka-feeling-ooga-chaka-deep-inside-of-me-ooga-chaka-ooga-chaka”

      If I have to wear it, SO DO YOU!! (You’re welcome!!)

    • Inky says:

      02:40pm | 03/10/12

      Deedle di i di-do do. Di dap didi do~

    • Oppa says:

      12:48pm | 03/10/12

      I am still trying to get over the evil gyrations of Elvis!

      Reply

    • CRJ says:

      02:11pm | 03/10/12

      Rock & roll is the devil’s music!!

      I remember driving through ‘Mississipi Burning’ country in the deep south of the USA, circa 1990. There were billboards warning humanity of the evils of such music. I remember one particular sign which had
      H-U-G-E red, orange and yellow flames on it saying “Go to church of the DEVIL WILL GET YOU!!”

      Somebody with a sense of humour had written “We take cash, Visa or American Express” underneath.

      About four hours out of Baton Rouge some friends and I pulled into a roadside diner/cafe to grab a bite to eat. They would not serve two of my friends because they are black. This was 1990, not 1950 during the Martin Luther King Jnr Civil Rights Movement. 

      They also didn’t like the modern music….and Elvis was spawn of the devil…..it was written all over the posters above their dukebox. I thought we’d pulled into the town from Footloose, because music leads to sex, and sex leads to dancing…..and you’ll go straight to hell for that!!

    • Inky says:

      02:34pm | 03/10/12

      Pah. Everyone knows Jazz was the original music of the devil. Darn newfangled kids with their rock and roll trying to steal all the evil cred. Real demons know where it’s at.

    • fml says:

      12:44pm | 03/10/12

      Team Punch, I feel your pain, if you wish I would be quite happy to gentrify American Rapping music to suit your tastes, here is my first attempt, guess the tune.

      Excuse me my friend, are your actions towards me maniacal?
      Don’t you know I am unbalanced?

      You sir, the flamboyant gentleman.
      Can you please cook me some gammon in an electric skillet?
      Like cheap processed ham, It will be finished when I put the basket in the hoop with my hands.
      Curse! I feel like David Berkowitz.

      I apologise if I destruct excrement, Mad house.
      Furthermore, your recliner has me absconding like general electric
      The lights flash while I envisage.
      The finality of the quaffing of imbibing fluid.

      Oh dear, My mind is slowing a measure
      That’s why I don’t perform coitus with the “big four”
      Brother, In this endeavor I will persist.
      Because a gentleman like my self is mentally unsound.

      Mentally unsound in the cerebral cortex.
      Mentally unsound in the cerebral cortex.

      Reply

    • Gregg says:

      01:29pm | 03/10/12

      You better keep at whatever else you do.

    • Wayne Kerr says:

      01:39pm | 03/10/12

      I’m guessing Cyprus Hill?

    • Markus says:

      01:40pm | 03/10/12

      ‘That’s why I don’t perform coitus with the “big four”’ is a bit too literal in its tranlation. A more culturally accurate translation would be:
      ‘That is why I do not partake of large volumes of malt liquor’

      ‘Curse! I feel like David Berkowitz’
      Gold.

    • fml says:

      02:00pm | 03/10/12

      @gregg,

      Why do you always have to be such a debbie downer?

      Bloomin’ hell, buy some rainbow suspenders and go out dancin’ with your sister.

    • fml says:

      02:28pm | 03/10/12

      Wayne wins! Insane in the brain!

      Good suggestion Markus, cheers. Another tomorrow when I am hung over at work.

    • David C says:

      12:56pm | 03/10/12

      You know you are old when you are served by a pretty young thing and you wonder what her mother looks like

      Reply

    • Gregg says:

      01:47pm | 03/10/12

      You know what they say about a good wine!

    • Amac says:

      01:14pm | 03/10/12

      Love it! Love singing it and head banging and bouncing around while driving with my grandson. Love the marching band version too. Coming from the psychedelic generation of afro and flares…there is no old and new there is only now!!

      Reply

    • Knemon says:

      01:30pm | 03/10/12

      What’s age got to do with this? I’d be in the older 10% of Punchers and I love it, pisstake or not, obviously many other people do also, it will shortly hold the record for the most watched video ever on YouTube…I’d say a job well done.

      Reply

    • andrew says:

      01:19pm | 03/10/12

      i reckon you’re old when the majority of sporting world champions are younger than you, and many players are retiring younger than you. By my reckoning i became old somewhere between 28 and 30.

      Reply

    • andrew says:

      03:54pm | 03/10/12

      being eligible to race in the “masters” category in downhill mountain biking at 30 doesn’t help either….... turning 30 this week nnnnooooo

    • Gregg says:

      01:42pm | 03/10/12

      Is Gangnam style going to break the internet?

      Is Gillmam and Swannman styles going to break Australia.
      No need to have a question mark!

      You know people are not old enough when they cannot recall boom/bust cycles or the borrow and spend and then austerity cycles of the past and we know who does the borrowing and spending.
      People old enough to recall who refuse to recognise reality are just a bit stupid.

      Reply

    • Jason Todd says:

      02:11pm | 03/10/12

      Hey Greg. You dropped this GIANT CROWBAR.

      Good effort though.

    • Anthropomorphic says:

      02:10pm | 03/10/12

      There is old. And there is out of touch. Please don’t confuse the two, Anonymous Puncher. I introduced the Gangnam Style YouTube clip to my tweeny kid several months ago - well before it was entered in the Guinness World Records for most “liked” clip. You can be an unreconstructed old fart at the age of 20 if you wish. I chose to embrace life, modern culture and music. Lighten up!

      Reply

    • Kika says:

      03:35pm | 03/10/12

      It’s Gangnam - place in Seoul where there are upper middle class girls who are straight laced, prim and proper during the day but who go wild and know how to party at night. I love the song. Hilarious. Most K-Pop is terrible - this one is a gem.

      Reply

    • Fed Up Gangnam Style says:

      03:34pm | 03/10/12

      You mean they don’t do the Robot no more….

      Reply

    • The New Economist says:

      04:36pm | 03/10/12

      Really? Gangnam Style? Same old, same old!!!

      Billy Joel .... “Everybody’s talking ‘bout the new sound, funny. But it’s still rock and roll to me!”

      Reply

    • Kurisu Sonsaku says:

      06:00pm | 03/10/12

      Meh - AKB48 Heavy Rotation was better (and hotter)

      Reply

    • Wayne says:

      06:34pm | 03/10/12

      You know your getting old when you can’t trust a fart to be just gas

      Reply
 
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They should update other things in the game too. Instead of a get out of jail free card, they should have a Dodgy Lawyer card that not only gets you out of jail straight away but also gives you a fat payout in compensation for daring to arrest you in the first place. Instead of getting a hotel when you… [read more]

From: A guide to summer festivals especially if you wouldn’t go

Kel says:

If you want a festival for older people or for families alike, get amongst the respectable punters at Bluesfest. A truly amazing festival experience to be had of ALL AGES. And all the young "festivalgoers" usually write themselves off on the first night, only to never hear from them again the rest of… [read more]

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Gentle jabs to the ribs

Superman needs saving

Superman needs saving

Can somebody please save Superman? He seems to be going through a bit of a crisis. Eighteen months ago,… Read more

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