About natalieshaw
Interests: Reading shizzle like Guralnick, Kerouac, Dostoevsky, Foucault, Gladwell, Kant, Geuss and Nietzsche. Being way too verbose for my own good. Not giving a fuck about the Oxford comma.
Music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/natalalaa
Anything else?: My name is Natalie Shaw, I was born a muso. I did a Law degree to try and get over it but it came back.
To put my affliction to use, I write for Teletext’s Planet Sound, Clash Magazine, Notion Magazine, Gigwise, Clickmusic, Noizemakesenemies and DiS on occasion. I've got a blog at http://www.idontwatchsoapoperas.blogspot.com ... blah blah blah, I know you don't care.
And a bit of a backdrop - sometimes there’s an underlying twang (not The/that one, fortunately)inside my head along the lines of "who do you think you are, what possibly gives you the right to give that (obviously shite) artist an unfavourable review?" And the answer is thus: nothing, absolutely nothing. But for the fact that what’s an opinion without a justification? And what’s a justification without believing that it’s the best one? It’s that and only that which gives me the belief that I can say whatever the heck I want - although it’s not even about me, after all. Not really anyway.