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To complete my short series of tourist hell here’s what is apparently the the most visited city on earth, Paris. Tourists get a lot of stick, I’m sure tedious academics still write unoriginal and uninteresting pieces on the tourist gaze … Continue reading
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A lot of the great videos I’ve featured on the site so far are characterized by a spectacular weirdness. The clips for tracks like Voyage Voyage, Fotonovela and last week’s la Serenissima walk (and frequently cross) a fine line between bold, eccentric … Continue reading
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Starting a very short series I’m tempted to call “trite tourist hell” or possibly “dear god, it’s just holiday snaps from here on”, the location for the first photo post of the year is Venice. It might be a theme … Continue reading
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With a Venetian theme to this week’s photo post it would absurd not to have something from the aptly named Rondò Veneziano to accompany it. These days Baroque pop is seeing something of a chart renaissance (honk! You can have … Continue reading
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So the time has come to complete my hat-trick of Danish cultural landmarks, finishing here with the least Scandi of the lot. Housing a peculiar blend of French Impressionists and an unrivalled collection of paintings from the Danish Golden Age … Continue reading
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In English the adjective ‘euro’ is almost always used in a pejorative sense. Euro trash, euro pop, Euro Disney, the Eurozone – all agreed to be less than useless by everyone in the UK. There’s plenty of examples of acts … Continue reading
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Still sticking with the Scandi theme, this week features Copenhagen’s Skuespilhuset. Overlooking the showy and vaguely absurd opera house, the playhouse of the Royal Danish Theatre is a more refined affair, a few Mies van der Rohe-style glass and steel oblongs … Continue reading
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How long has this blog been going before it featured some Bobby O? Too long. You could spend your time making sarcastic remarks about how disinterested the Flirts look as they sing about passion, or you could enjoy some classic … Continue reading
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It seems like far too long since an exotic library featured on these pages, so to remedy that here’s Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s extension to the Royal Danish Library. It’s everything you want from a piece of Danish architecture, essentially 90s modernism … Continue reading
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Ordinarily I like to reserve music posts to songs with outstanding videos but sometimes you have to make an exception. Given that this week I’ve returned to a bookish theme it seems perfect to highlight the outrageous Sexy Teacher by … Continue reading
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Well, this update has been a long time in coming but I feel it’s been worth the wait – especially as it’s philipmode’s first celebrity exclusive featuring none other than the UK’s greatest cyclist, Bradley Wiggins. Sadly the Tour de … Continue reading
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There’s only one track I could ever consider for this week’s cycling theme, Kraftwerk’s eponymous ode to the greatest race in the world, the Tour de France. The eagle-eyed will have noticed that the screen grab above doesn’t actually come … Continue reading