Tennessee Vibes
Review: Tom Petty / Stevie Nicks @ BST Hyde Park
In 2017 I saw Stevie Nicks and the Heartbreakers live in Hyde Park at British Summertime. Just weeks later, Tom Petty would be dead.
PAUL DETTMANN
Writer at Crime Guy + White Owl and Pen & Sword Books. Writer at Tennessee Vibes. UK: Bucks + Anlaby.
Tennessee Vibes
The Music of David Lynch
Another piece from 2017 and my time on The Z Review
Sophie Toscan du Plantier
Sophie: The Deceased Witnesses
Time is a funny thing. It has a habit of marching on, for some reason. Time flies too. It marches sometimes and flies at others. Time. A conundrum.
Movie: David Lynch's "The Art Life"
This is adapted from an article I wrote in 2017 for The Z Review in New York
Your Kindle Isn't a Book, It's Netflix
More from the 2017 Z Review archive
David Lynch
We lose a great mind tonight. It's difficult to choose a few words or a single image to summarise the life of David Lynch, the man behind Twin Peaks. He won multiple Oscar nominations for 1980's The Elephant Man, a film so terrifying I can still remember a short clip we were shown at primary school.
David Lynch on AI
Eraserhead is almost a silent movie but is no less terrifying because of it. I found every David Lynch movie terrifying. Twin Peaks is terrifying. But all in very subtle ways.
Crime Guy
You won't have an alibi either
Most of us won't have alibis for anything important. Sometimes having a cast iron watertight alibi can make you a suspect, especially in crime novels. If you’re simply a normal person doing normal things, you’ll probably find yourself on your own for large parts of the
Crime Guy
Suzy: Before the Pub
Just before we cross the river to the Prince of Wales, one more thought
Crime Guy
The Forty Thieves: Alice Diamond
Mary Carr might have started the gang, but Alice Diamond is the one we remember best. A real-life all-female crime syndicate that made shoplifting into a production line.
Crime Guy
Suzy: Is Shorrolds a Herring?
Why has everyone accepted that an appointment at 37 Shorrolds Road was genuine, yet Mr Kipper was fake? What if the whole entry was fake?
Beside The Seaside
A piece from the summer 2017 archive of The Z Review