Robert Elms – Bernard O'Keeffe

The first word in the title of Robert Elms’s excellent book – Live!:Why We Go Out — is interestingly ambiguous. ‘Live!’ can be taken as an exclamatory adjective describing the concert experience – in the flesh, immediate and happening – but it can also be read as an imperative verb. “Live!” says Elms, as if … Read more

London Made Us by Robert Elms

by Bernard O'Keeffe

I feel great affinity with Robert Elms. This may be because I listen to him on BBC Radio London. It may be because we’re both the same age. It may be that both of us are at Loftus Road for most QPR home games. Or it may be a sense of shared roots. So, plenty … Read more