Have I mentioned recently that Miranda Sawyer is an absolute arse?

[Dissident Junk]

I'm a bit late on this one, but I gotta say I am confused.

Factory's design aesthetic has been democratised: Sugar Lounge, Loaf, Baa Bar and Revolution are all smart surroundings - shiny floors, bit of metal, airy, nouveau. Diluted Haçiendas, baby Drys.

Errr . . . . her definition of a diluted Haç or Dry doesn't chime with my recollections of either place. The Hac was like a warehouse - which is why people loved it - with a few painted girders, certainly not 'nouveau'. Most of the time, it was absolutely filthy, the toilets were always flooded. I wouldn't have said it was airy either, a high roof does not a delicate breezy expanse make. In some respects, the place was cold, vast and not very people-friendly at all. If you got there early, it was an awful place to hang around in, until it filled up.

And Dry? Well, Dry was a bit boring really, and I wouldn't have said it was airy either, more like a corridor with a bar down one side.

 

[brianx]

She's on Newsnight Review and she's lovely. I met her once and she was off her head (it was a long time ago) and she was very sweet. Martha Kearny is a proper woman but I do miss the Goddess Kirsty.
I loved her (Miranda's) Suburbia book I'm sure that she wanted to be from Manchester as a teenager but come on she's grown up to be a lovely woman.

 

[quimcunx]

I didn't mind park and ride. Does she still live in brixton?

 

[El Jefe]

I saw her a couple of weeks ago battling past Boots with her baby-buggy, so I presume so

 

[cybertect]

the passage in question

and the article it's from... http://www.newstatesman.com/200606190034

To be fair, that's not a million miles from what Tony Wilson said himself

 

[quimcunx]

So one phrase, taken out of context, makes her an absolute arse?

You are Miranda Sawyer and I claim my £5.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I like her as a writer on the whole, but I guess she is moving into that demi-monde of columnists with nothing to put in her column

I liked her as a music writer 10-15 years ago. Haven't read much she's written lately I must say.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Hm. A lot of odd bumps going on at the moment.