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Of course, that was before the values of cynicism, misogyny and the societal expectation that Jo would be thin, feminine and demure sent her off down Arsey Avenue. I was a bit confused by what this book was attempting to do, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. If you are going to get pissed, make sure someone reliable is with you to get you home for example - that sort of good advice! Or so the publishers of Jo Brand’s anthology of memoirish self-help, for those seeking advice on “How To Do Female”, would suggest. Jo mentions her early life and start in comedy but doesn't waffle on about herself too much and she is refreshingly honest about life including topics on love, drugs, family and dealing with depression.

We wanted to put on a varied and interactive show that blurred genres and was exciting, engaging and speaks to a diverse audience. For the film T2 Trainspotting (2017), Smith created a new version with timestretched chords, "Slow Slippy". Then in the next page, she is discussing how we should lower our standards and settle for a man with a small cock. NUXX" as one of one of the 90s' most iconic songs,[3] writing that it "mixed sublime synths with a four-to-the-floor freakout, and represented everything that was going on; it was new.

Fans of Brand will no doubt enjoy her articulate moaning about the trials and tribulations of her life so far, narrated as it is with her particular charm. Director Danny Boyle described it as the "heartbeat" of the film, capturing its "euphoric highs following intense lows".

But this doesn’t give any deep understanding of either the self, female or otherwise, nor the machine. So it was a nice read, if hardly challenging or earth-shattering - which I suspect is exactly what it's intended to be! Underworld initially refused permission to use it in the film, as they disliked how often their music was used in negative portrayals of clubbing, but Boyle persuaded them after showing them a clip. Now she's considerably further along life's inevitable bloody 'journey' - and she's fucked up enough times to feel confident she has no wisdom to offer anyone.I guess that's as it is though; when we're young we always think we know best and Jo doesn't preach and tell people not to but tells us how to live our lives more safely and enjoyably. She’s supported by political comic and surreal storyteller Raul Kohli, engaging rapper Reali-T and poet and painter (and recent Born Lippy slam winner) JM.

Co-founded by poets Donald Jenkins and Tom C, Born Lippy was created to join what they saw as the obvious dots between performance poetry, rap and comedy.Smith said he was shocked when BBC Radio 1 played the track on breakfast radio, and said: "I thought, music is moving, culture is moving, it's spreading. While online events can enable those who c an’t come out into real-life spaces to attend, Donald says there are further struggles to come for the industry.

One of the most perplexing aspects of this book is how little is aimed at women in particular, despite its How To Do Female manifesto. The book is quite autobiographical, with a lot of wee anecdotes and her own experiences peppered in throughout. I do like Jo Brand, who is my contemporary, and whom I like to imagine I might have come across when she was working as a psychiatric nurse at the Maudsley Hospital in the 1970s while I was an outpatient there … but at first this rather random collection of anecdotes and witty one-liners interspersed with words of wisdom about how to cope with life as a female did strike me as a bit tame and sloppy. P erformers will include darkly humorous poet Louise Fazackerley, winner of BBC Radio 3 New Voice award, European slam finalist and support artist for Dr. But, as she admits in numerous places, ‘I have not been scientific, this has been totally my own subjective view’.As well as writing about, as her subtitle says, ‘How to Do Female’, she touches on issues that can have a huge impact on the lives of both men and women, albeit from a deliberate and more or less completely female perspective. Now she’s considerably further along life’s inevitable bloody ‘journey’– and she’s fucked up enough times to feel confident she has no wisdom to offer anyone. It didn't keep my attention and at times I felt my mind drifting off and I had to refocus and reread the paragraph I had skipped over. On the inside cover, the blurb reads “if there’s one thing we women are entitled to, it’s having a bloody good moan”. As well as this, an inclusion of 'Dark + Long (Dark Train)', Underworld's previous hit, is a nice touch, especially as the US had never had an official release of it yet.