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Jamie Collinson's Substack. Stories from the music business and beyond.
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I Stand With the Ginger Menace (opens the original)
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I once believed it would be impossible to sympathise with Ed Sheeran, or the ginger menace, as I used to think of him. But I found myself doing so when a bunch of NIMBYs near his country pile tried to stop him using his pond as a swimming hole. There’s an old adage that goes as follows: If an American sees a man drive past in a Ferrari, he says to himself: One day, I’ll have one of those. If a British man sees the same, he thinks: One day, I’ll have him out of that.</spa
Why, not what (opens the original)
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On Test Match Special last week, the artist Jamie Routley was interviewed about his new joint portrait of Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson. It was tricky to find a window, he said, between Broad being away to commentate, and, when the season started, Anderson being completely immersed in county cricket.‘I’m quite similar,’ he said. ‘You just won’t get me once I start something.’There is something to that, I thought with a touch of envy. As I try to enter fully into writing a new book, everything
How I Became a Bird Nerd (opens the original)
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In Schleswig Holstein recently, I did some proper birding for the first time in a while. Being a birder1 is something it took me a long time to be comfortable with. I have an uncle whose tastes in serious fiction, art, wine, beer and cricket have long inspired my own. He’s also a birder, and of course, as a kid and a twenty-something, this seemed faintly embarrassing. Then I had my conversion moment. On a trip to Santa Barbara, a family member took my uncle and me to a nearby slough, which he’d
Bad Behavior (opens the original)
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I’ve never really had a persona as a writer. By the time I started publishing books, at 39, it seemed a bit too late. These things are best developed in one’s early twenties, before you start finding yourself ridiculous.Nevertheless, persona is important for artists of all stripes. It’s an identifier, a brand, and if successful, even a whole legend.Style is related to persona, but the two aren't the same. Both are partly or wholly constructed, but style is where the craft comes in. Persona is mo
Bad Taste (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about taste, and how it’s not always a good thing for it to be too pronounced.A few years ago, seated at a desk island at an indie record company, I told my colleagues I didn’t like Abba. Silence descended over that little corner of the office, and the people around me frowned. ‘What?’ one of them said. ‘Why?’‘Because it’s mild Swedish pap,’ I told him. ‘Like something squeezed from a tube.’The frowns gave way to open-mouthed outrage, like Donald Sutherland at the end of <sp
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