Dylan Jones

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Full name: Dylan Jones

Area of interest: Contemporary Culture and Lifestyle

Journals/Organisation: The Mail on Sunday | The Independent

Email: d.jones@independent.co.uk

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Website: Daily Mail | The Independent | GQ Magazine

Blog: The GQ Blogs: Dylan Jones

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Spandau Ballet have often been ignored, but the music was not only timely, it was groundbreaking - 26th December
I shall not only be wearing my new double-breasted suit at Christmas, I shall be wearing it all winter - 19th December
A landmark deal between Google and authors' associations in America will let readers search millions of books - 12th December
Seasonal Suicide Notes' is a funny, acute stocking filler that should appeal to any half-decent misanthropist - 5th December
Whereas Rik Mayall snivelled around in an old raincoat, the American comics simply shouted at people - 28th November
Young is better than old, pretty is better than ugly, movies are better than music, and anything is better than politics - 21st November
Gazza hijacked a London bus and successfully steered it along the Bayswater Road, albeit at a glacial pace - 14th November
For a period in the Sixties, Eel Pie Island became so popular it even began issuing its own passports - 7th November
I love the fright masks, the scary sweets, the useless plastic Halloween gifts in all the supermarkets - 31st October
Provincetown was home to Norman Mailer. Now it's the most fashionable resort in North America - 24th October
The room lit up when the Hoff walked in. It was like some sort of visitation. And verily we were blessed - 17th October
While many have endured plastic surgery in order to look like Elvis, no one has ever been able to match his hair - 10th October
If you want your new kitchen to look like a corner shop in an Ealing comedy, Bailey's is the place for you - 3rd October
Around 25 years ago I started a heavy-metal band called Devil Bitch. Now we're going to reform - 26th September
The restaurants of Abergavenny display a genuine enthusiasm that is sadly lacking in less rural areas - 19th September
Wander into a house party on Ibiza and the music you'll hear will probably be a Hed Kandi compilation - 12th September
An evening at the Peralada Festival is one of the most magical experiences you can have in Spain in the summer - 5th September
The frontman dressed as a Hassidic Jew while I was head-to-toe in Vivienne Westwood - 29th August
In a wonderful evocation of the secret capital, we come across feral meths drinkers and shoeless children - 22nd August
Salvador Dali's garden is full of trompe-l'oeil figures and has a swimming pool in the shape ofan erect penis - 15th August
My wife hates Neil Young with a passion she usually reserves for the people who man BT phone lines - 8th August
The town of Deal was perfectly attuned to the melancholy demeanour of a sullen 13-year-old boy - 1st August
The knee-jerk fuss over Andy Coulson wasn't that dissimilar from the whole Michael Jackson freak show - 25th July
Watching Brian Wilson perform live is complicated because it highlights his fragile state - 18th July
Everyone else was wearing pink velour and denim cut-offs. And we're not just talking about the women here - 11th July
Sir Bernard Ingham says that Thatcher never read leaders – 'to her it was a waste of time' - 4th July
Google Alert allows you the opportunity to live parallel lives, a different one for every hour of the day - 27th June
Night in My Veins sounds like Chrissie Hynde is lost in a maelstrom of lust... It whispers sex - 20th June
I've never heard so many complaints at the Hay Festival that weren't directed at the weather - 13th June
As a social history of London in the Seventies, Savage's book is beyond compare - 6th June
What is the point of looking at Elvis's rhinestone loo seat, or Jim Morrison's broken zipper? - 30th May
Card-carrying champagne socialists are looking to swap sides - but they want to do it with dignity - 23rd May
At one of the nightclubs you can still reserve a VIP table for the rather worrying sum of £8,000 - 16th May
The problem is that most buzzwords go out of fashion before people get to hear of them - 9th May
Money and intelligence gave Alan Clark a freedom denied even to the most gifted politicians - 2nd May
Some people in Hollywood know who Gordon Brown is – but few could pull him out of a line-up - 25th April
Blossom was an idiosyncratic singer who brought levity to the self-regarding world of jazz - 18th April
Mick Jones showed me enough Clash ephemera to keep an old punk happy for days - 11th April
I think that Paris Hilton is masquerading as a shallow bimbo - 4th April
I'm the only person I know who likes Wings, Bon Jovi and Bob Seger - 28th March
Klarwein's work is a sexfest that even now would be impossible to reproduce in a newspaper - 21st March
Charles de Gaulle was once a halfway house between '2001' and 'The Ipcress File' - 14th March
Outside the gents in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a urinal probably used by Iggy Pop - 7th March
In Georgia's mind, one would simply write the news on the chocolate with a 'large pointed stick' - 28th February
Distressed denim is back – from the bus stops on the Edgware Road to the gastropubs of Soho - 21st February 2009
The hype said The Wire was better than The Sopranos, which it clearly couldn't be - 14th February 2009
Colette had the snottiest shop assistants in the whole of Paris – sexless, odd-looking fashion victims - 7th February 2009
Whitechapel is where Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock and Nan Goldin all gravitated to in London - The new Whitechapel Gallery is due to open in eight weeks time, and a very fine thing it is too - 31st January 2009
I was introduced to the most dangerous cocktail I will drink this year: the Nicolashka - 24th January 2009
Freud proudly pointed out his new acquisition – the actual bass drum from the 'Sgt Pepper' album cover - 17th January 2009
London is the great cultural melting pot to end them all, the fulcrum of all that is seismic and cool - 10th January 2009
In the film of 'London Hyde Park 1969', Steve Winwood is a revelation; a genuine pop icon - 3rd January 2009

Articles: 2008

The Perfect Art Party could be defined by one thing and one thing only. Tracey Emin - 27th December 2008
'There are two important choices at Christmas: where you pray and where you celebrate' - 20th December 2008
It’s always nice to see socialists drinking someone else’s free champagne in these tough times - 13th December 2008
I sat next to a couple who looked like Mr and Mrs Badiddlyboing from the Harry &Paul show - 6th December 2008
At heart, Barney Bubbles was an artist –which led to the creative strain he put himself under - 29th November 2008
The vibrancy of Hong Kong is extraordinary - 22nd November 2008
'Three of the world's biggest rock stars stormed out of the studio' - 15th November 2008
The more you listen to George Harrison's solo work the more you hear the line back to the Sixties - 8th November 2008
Talk of the Gambon is the Guv’nor. Just watching him get out of a chair will give you goosebumps - 1st November 2008
We are living in an age in which art galleries are more popular than theme parks - 18th October 2008
The Ivy Club's entrance is so white that it feels as if you're walking into a huge iPod - 11th October 2008

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The Independent:

Column name: If You Ask Me...

Remit/Info: Contemporary Culture and Lifestyle

Section: The Independent Magazine

Role: Columnist

Pen-name:

Email: d.jones@independent.co.uk

Website: Independent.co / Dylan Jones

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length:

Articles: 2008

no recent columns in this series

...John Prescott got close to the flame but seemed to learn little about the fire - 4th October 2008
...the rock heritage industry is in danger of eating its own tail... - 27th September 2008
...America has to choose between the world's oldest white guy and an arrogant black rock star - View from the West Wing - 20th September 2008
...there are far too many people in this world content to define themselves by what they buy in gift shops - 13th September 2008
...what is the real sound of India? - 6th September 2008
...we don't yet know quite how good Mad Men is going to be - 30th August 2008
...'I'm used to lying in small dark rooms as men and women work their magic (I have been having a lot of acupuncture) - 16th August 2008
...I never thought I'd be staring at my TV screen and nodding appreciatively at Kevin Costner - 9th August 2008
...Hazelwood’s 1973 album Poet, Fool or Bum got a one-word review: ‘Bum’ - 2nd August 2008
...Paul Smith's furniture shop in Albemarle Street is potentially the most dangerous shop in London - 26th July 2008
...Gordon Brown's former apologists should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves - 19th July 2008
...no sombre moment can possibly be complete without Gonzales' extraordinary album Solo Piano - 12th July 2008
...Giffords is probably the best circus in Britain. Theatrical, whimsical, exotic, celestial... - 5th July 2008
..."Blue and Green" by Van Morrison is as good a blues record as you're likely to hear - 28th June 2008
...Keith Waterhouse can lay claim to inventing the art of identifying the modern social stereotype - 21st June 2008
...the razor clam is the only thing to eat right now (it's certainly the only mollusc to eat right now) - 14th June 2008
...Las Vegas might just be the most wilfully illiterate place in America - 7th June 2008
...Dawn Dusk or Night by Yasmina Reza is probably the most pretentious political biography ever written - 31st May 2008
If you ask me – and not to put too much of a dampener on the delights to follow – pets are for the birds - 24th May 2008
..."Baby, It's Cold Outside" is the greatest seduction tool known to mankind - 17th May 2008
...this year's furore over China hosting the Olympics hasn't even properly begun - 10th May 2008
...'Provided You Don't Kiss Me' will probably turn out to be the best sports book you read all year - 3rd May 2008
...Oman is in something of a quandary. - 26th April 2008
...I'm still rather shocked that politicians find it so difficult to learn from their predecessors' mistakes. - 19th April 2008
..."Nessa" Jenkins is the funniest Welsh ex-Who roadie of a certain size currently working on BBC3 - 12th April 2008
...we should all stop beating ourselves up about liking things we shouldn't - 5th April 2008
...everyone should be able to sum themselves up in one single sentence - 29th March 2008
...networking is a waste of time. It's tedious. Obvious. Unnecessary - 22nd March 2008
...the Venetians deserve everything they get - 15th March 2008
...the political cartoon is the calendar by which we remember it all - 8th March 2008
..."Wichita Lineman" just might be the best song ever written - 1st March 2008
...Berlin is very much a work in progress - 23rd February 2008
...Gordon Brown's new smile... could turn out to be his defining characteristic - 16th February 2008
...committees tend to be groups of people who individually can do nothing but as a group tend to decide that nothing can be done - 9th February 2008
...the Bristol might just be the best hotel in Paris - 2nd February 2008
...you can tell almost all you need to know about a person by asking them what sort of music they like - 26th January 2008
...the state of professional football could be improved exponentially by adopting some extremely simple measures - 19th January 2008
...we need seriously to watch what we say - 12th January 2008
...The Godfather: part III is to the first two Godfather films as Cut the Crap is to the rest of The Clash oeuvre - 5th January 2008

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Articles: 2009

At this year's ski-resort party, it was all downhill - The Davos World Economic Forum was full of long faces but that didn't stop the after-hours socialising - or Naomi Campbell turning up - 11th February 2009
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? - Johnny Rotten never burned out, like rock rebels are supposed to. Instead he seems to have faded to the status of a fangless old eccentric - 4th February 2009
Enter the suit for our new-look Dark ages - Just as the black suit defined ears in the past - the film noir chic, rock-star cool - so it's making a return in our credit-crunch world - 31st January 2009
Shop where even the big cheeses fear to spend - In the land of the seriously rich - the Cotswolds - lies the world's most tempting organic shop. Just don't take your credit card... - 24th January 2009

Articles: 2008

Stepping out with the best of them - Be careful where you tread...a walk is all well and good but it only really makes sense if there's a fine restaurant at the end of it - 30th December 2008
MP3s at dawn in the battle for the iPod - Sick of listening to the soundtrack to High School Musical 3? Then it's time to teach the whipper-snappers in your house a musical lesson... - 23rd December 2008
The day I met the devil in Ms Jones - Grace Jones is enjoying a revival in 2008 - but has she really changed much since a certain encounter back in 1986? - 16th December 2009
Is Obama the man to end the Yo! generation? - Just think: no more bling, homies, songs about bling and Uzis and gangsta - maybe the President-Elect could really make a change - 2nd December 2008
It's not the journey, it's the getting there - Wanting it all, wanting it now is a good credo in the boardroom, but it has limited practicality when applied to a suburban - 2nd December 2008
It's not the journey, it's the getting there - Wanting it all, wanting it now is a good credo in the boardroom, but it has limited practicality when applied to a suburban - 25th November 2008
A fruitless weekend without my BlackBerry - What would any well-connected man about town do when his little matt-black friend vanishes in the countryside... Panic! - 18th November 2008
Jaywalking - can this be the new joyriding? - Forget speed cameras - gangs of youths ambling over the road in front of you are turning into the newest form of traffic control - 11th November 2008
Whatever happened to the heroes? - Bored of Nick Drake? So over Barrett? Just as our cultural icons run out of steam, a true Boy's Own adventurer comes to the rescue - 4th November 2008
Why I'll always take it to the bridge - Do you want to impress real-life Vesper Lynds? Forget hold 'em and partner up for an infinitely more civilised game of bridge - 28th October 2008
You expect waiter service and food? - Why the hot new restaurants in town are the last places you should to if you want to enjoy a relaxing meal out - 22nd October 2008
Want my opinion? Well, just blog off - Engaging with your public at large may be a great idea - but don't go looking on the internet to find any rational thought... - 14th October 2008
Why it's bad to mix in crop circles - Close-cropped hair when you're not a natural domehead says only thing: that you're as lazy and apathetic as White Van Man - 7th October 2008
Writing a bestseller? Surely it's child play - Got a brilliant idea for a book? Are you quite sure? Because your great British novel might just read like the drivel of a two-year-old - 23rd September 2008
Keep your cards close to your chest... - Travelling abroad? Leave your business cards at home and you could be in more trouble than you think - 16th September 2008
The future is here, the future is...matt black - Technology is a little like buses: you wait for ages, then when you’re least expecting it along comes a bendy-bus - 9th September 2008
Hey pal, hands off my friends - Even as you sit there, people you think you can trust may be lining up your pals with a view to appropriating them - 2nd September 2008
The bar stays in the picture - Forget the ultra-cool, post-modern hangouts, the place where deals are made in Los Angeles is still the Bel Air hotel - 26nd August 2008
Think you're a rock star? Just don't air your G strings in public - Playing an imaginary guitar should be confined to your private arena. Unless you are Christine Hamilton... - 19th August 2008
A man to make the Mad Men proud - Obama is a marketing dream: unassailable and seemingly unstoppable. And no-one dare say anything un-PC about him - 12th August 2008
Are smart teachers going out of fashion? - If schools want to turn our children into smarty pants, they should start by giving them a lesson in how to dress well - 29th July 2008
When it's alright not to show your hand - Your mother told you never to put your hands in your pockets. So how comes it's what all the successful men seem to do? - 22nd July 2008
Las Vegas, where the show goes on (and on)' - Elvis loved it, and so did the Rat Pack. So, what is it about showbiz town that makes them all shout, 'Viva Las Vegas'? - 15th July 2008
Hanging out with Jay-Z in hip-hop time - The truth is, it's not every day I'm asked to host a dinner with Jay-Z - 9th July 2008
Warning... please engage your brain before speaking - Don’t worry if you’re not sure what today’s politicians are talking about – a lot of the time, they’re not certain either… - 2nd July 2008
Call at your convenience - unless it's a public one - Would you take an all important call from Gordon Brown with your trousers round your ankles? - 25th June 2008
Dash it all, an Aston is simply a class act - It may have a dashboard that's impossible to read, but an Aston Martin is still in a luxury sports car league of its own - 17th June 2008
Boris Johnson: All tanked up and ready to go - ‘Sorry old boy, I’m a bit pushed for time,’ said Boris. ‘You couldn’t deliver the tank to The Spectator could you?’ - 11th June 2008
The phrase of the day? Two words: sat nav... - Spoken in the style of Rob Brydon's Bryn in Gavin & Stacey, that is. But will it be one of the catchphrases that define this decade? - 4th June 2008
Naff in the sixties but now we dig gardening - When I was a boy, the words I dreaded more than any other were, ‘Shall we go to the garden centre? - 28th May 2008
Would Sir care for a little more rudeness? - Once, British service in shops was second to none. Nowadays, the answer to a request for assistance is likely to be 'Whatevva...' - 21st May 2008
Falling in love with a Swede sensation - How do you know when your boy racer days are finally behind you? When a thumping great Nordic estate car gets your heart racing - 14th May 2008
It's not big and it is most definitely not clever - You think your favourite multi-hued party shirt makes you hip, says Dylan Jones. But what it really says is, 'Warning: I'm a deluded buffoon. Keep back!' - 1st May 2008
Child’s play – or the height of cool… - Lifelong vertigo can’t keep you safe from taking the plunge on a paraglider when your own kids are questioning your nerve - 27th April 2008
Posh and white? We don't need your sort - A workie’s life is hard enough without a helping hand from the equal-opportunities government - 20th April 2008
Flattery is always the best policy - Lying about the books we've read is one of the things all men do well - 11th April 2008
Down on your luxe? Find your inner slob - The world of luxury becomes more complicated and more convoluted by the day, and this week has certainly been no exception - 4th April 2008
'Question: When are boys more vain than girls?' - Please study the photograph below - 28th March 2008
How to avoid boring people - You learn to sing for your supper in my business - 21st March 2008
Dino: the true leader of the Rat Pack - The ultimate lounge lizard, Dean Martin eclipses both Frank and Elvis if only because his cool was born of sheer indifference - 7th March 2008
Dylan Jones has Prescott syndrome: it's big but not clever - Now I may not be innately grumpy, I may not look like Jabba the Hutt reincarnated as a Northern stand-up comedian and I may not have the dress sense of a carrier bag (at least not during the week), but in spite of all this, I fear I may be turning into John Prescott - 29th February 2008
The high Roller life is not for me - In the pantheon of 21st-century luxury icons, the Bentley has become the car to beat, the only one that matters - 22nd February 2008
How to avoid a Valentine's massacre - Around this time of year I have to have a quiet word with my postman - 8th February 2008
Dylan Jones visits the ugliest town in England - This much we know: it is a man's divine right to get lost when he's driving - 1st February 2008
Why we should burn all hoodies - I suppose it was the Victorians who started it all, who would regularly fall over their crinolines and pantaloons in order to invent a new tradition and then pretend it had always existed - 25th January 2008
Dylan Jones on the high-maintenance girlfriend - And if you can't see her then you'll certainly be able to hear her - 18th January 2008
How I became a real party animal - There are many jokes about being Tory, and few if any of them are kind - 11th January 2008

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