Year 2008

Sports Diary 2007-2009

Sports Diary 2007-2009

 Ian Holling’s Sports Diary (scroll down for three years’ highlights)

Poetry Archive pre-2009

The following poems appeared in London Grip during 2008-9 under the poetry editorship of Fred D’Aguiar and others. Poets appearing in this archive are: Robert Vas Dias Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Iain Britton Sheena Blackhall Michael Davenport Christoph Warrack Mahmood Jamal

Music: Ibiza Finale 2008  by Helen Donlon

Music: Ibiza Finale 2008 by Helen Donlon

Archive 2008 “. . . In the club, Infected Mushroom’s gig had become a trip in itself, with a hard metallic edge.  Driving home cross-country to Sant Llorenc as the sun was rising, I knew it was the last time in the year that I’d have the car roof opened up, letting in the morning breezes .(…)

Mandela and Mbeki’s South Africa, 2008

The Poverty of Power

Nang Slang

Nang Slang

An occasional comment on language by Alan Lloyd

Music / Ibiza

Music / Ibiza

  Resident writer Helen Donlon gets into the opening parties of the worlds biggest clubland 

Politics & Society: My May 1968

Politics & Society: My May 1968

Archive 2008 Londongrip   .  .  .   Politics & Society My May 1968

Politics & Society: Yemen. Woman on  a  Bus: 14 scenes by Gabriele vom Brück

Politics & Society: Yemen. Woman on a Bus: 14 scenes by Gabriele vom Brück

Archive 2008 Politics & Society: Yemen. Woman  on  a  Bus: 14 scenes by Gabriele vom Brück

Psychotherapy: The Many Roads to Ordinary Happiness by Jane McChrystal

Psychotherapy: The Many Roads to Ordinary Happiness by Jane McChrystal

Archive 2008 Londongrip  .  .  .  Psychotherapy The Many Roads to Ordinary Happiness by Jane McChrystal

“L’heritage de ’68″

Duncan Prowse considers the 40th anniversary of May ’68,  supposedly the climax to all that the 1960s stood for.

Ibiza Mid-Season 2008

Ibiza Mid-Season 2008

It is the hottest month of the season. Between emotional sunsets, a full moon and the green ray, Ibiza resident Helen Donlon gets nocturnal with clubland icons Rose Bee, Alter Ego, Rebeka Brown, Mo Moniz and Francois Kevorkian.

Music: Glastonbury 2008

Music: Glastonbury 2008

Archive 2008 Music: London Grip Goes To Glastonbury 2008   The Morning After Glastonbury Music Festival is  the biggest annual event in Britain.