On February 16th, YouTube musician Rob Chapman posted a video of a talented slide guitarist who he found performing on the street in Brighton, UK. The video proved fairly popular (it has received more than 118,000 views to date), and Chapman decided he wasn't the one who deserved to pocket the ad revenue he had made from it. In a video released on March 17th, Chapman returned the busker, whose name is Andrew "Nelly" Niel, and offered him the £100 he made off the video. Niel, as you might imagine, was grateful for Chapman's generosity, and he played off the new video with a second helping of slide guitar. This story is the latest example of YouTube's power to shine a spotlight on talented individuals who deserve more attention than they have received. Frequent YouTube users will remember the tale of Ted Williams, who was able to go from homelessness to success...
- 3/20/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman and The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
"What emerges is a vastly satisfying and adventurous novel, a state-of-the-nation comedy from a novelist who can do pretty much anything she likes and is having a great time doing it." So wrote Tim Martin in the Daily Telegraph of Burley Cross Postbox Theft, by Nicola Barker, "an even more purely comic work than her sprawling, much-acclaimed and periodically unhinged Darkmans (2007)," which "sets itself the task of revivifying the famously creaky and now largely neglected tradition of the epistolary novel". "Barker's knack for skewering the mores of the chattering classes remains strong, and a number of sparkling comic set-pieces stand out," contended Nick Garrard in the Independent on Sunday. "However, there is the nagging feeling throughout that Barker is coasting.
"What emerges is a vastly satisfying and adventurous novel, a state-of-the-nation comedy from a novelist who can do pretty much anything she likes and is having a great time doing it." So wrote Tim Martin in the Daily Telegraph of Burley Cross Postbox Theft, by Nicola Barker, "an even more purely comic work than her sprawling, much-acclaimed and periodically unhinged Darkmans (2007)," which "sets itself the task of revivifying the famously creaky and now largely neglected tradition of the epistolary novel". "Barker's knack for skewering the mores of the chattering classes remains strong, and a number of sparkling comic set-pieces stand out," contended Nick Garrard in the Independent on Sunday. "However, there is the nagging feeling throughout that Barker is coasting.
- 5/14/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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