Mark Holburn – Medium

5 days ago

My Sporting Heroes

Part 2 - Football — As it is football, I need to get something off my chest. I have met some great writers on Medium over the last year and especially bonded with Paul Combs and Alex Markham on our passion for Bruce Springsteen. With Alex Markham being an avid West Ham fan and I…

Football

8 min read

Published in Plethora Of Pop

·Aug 2

15 Coolish Songs About Transport

Pop Writing Prompt — Just when you think you are on your summer holidays from writing prompts, another one comes along and bites you in the bum. I would have got away with not doing another prompt in August if it hadn’t been for that pesky “Usual Culprit” Pierce McIntyre as Alex Markham brilliantly…

Music

5 min read

Jul 29

20 Years on and Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band are Still Rising

Tomorrow marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of what I consider one of Bruce Springsteen’s finest and most important albums: The Rising. Here are my reasons. The Rising was released on 30th July 2002 and boy did we need it. The Rising was the first album recorded with the…

Rock

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20 Years on and Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band are Still Rising

Jul 28

Writing Prompt

The Answer to Cristiano Ronaldo & The Boss, A disgusting Act or Calling out Martina Navratilova — Two truths and one lie Below is the answer to this fantastic and enjoyable writing prompt originated by The Celtic Chameleon and myself being tagged in by Paul Combs to join in. The three statements were: - Cristiano Ronaldo stepped out of the hotel lift where we were staying while I was admiring the fact…

Writing Prompts

4 min read

Jul 24

Writing Prompt

Cristiano Ronaldo & The Boss, A disgusting Act or Calling out Martina Navratilova. One is a lie! — Some writing challenges are just a bit too challenging! After sweating and deliberating over Paul Combs writing prompt listing your favourite film for every year you have been alive, I thought I would lie low for a bit. …

Writing Challenge

6 min read

Jul 22

My Sporting Heroes

Part One — Tennis — As well as my passion for music and the cinema, my other passion is sport. So not mentioning any names here, but any non-lovers of sport can switch channels now. My two favourite sports have always been football and tennis, but I will take an interest in most sporting activity…

Tennis

9 min read

Jul 19

Ten Songs from My Playlist To Cool the UK Down

I am putting the blame on this firmly at the door of Paul Combs as he cheered as all up yesterday with his list of happy Beatle songs to wash away our Monday blues. It got me thinking again. …

Music

3 min read

Ten Songs from My Playlist To Cool the UK Down

Jul 15

The 7 Deadly Sins That So Annoy Me About the Cinema

After finally completing Sir Paul Combs’s massive movie challenge I figured I was done with movie articles for a while. However, revisiting all those movies triggered my cinema memories and an article that had been on my mind for a while and can’t let go of until I have got…

Cinema

7 min read

Jul 8

Favourite Films From Every Year I’ve Been Alive: Part Four (2008–2021)

Click here for Part 1 Click here for Part 2 Click here for Part 3 So, I am now in the final part of Sir Paul Combs writing prompt which for me seems to have gone on longer than the wedding sequence in The Deer Hunter. This writing prompt for…

Film

14 min read

Jul 1

Favourite Films From Every Year I’ve Been Alive: Part Three (1993–2007)

Click here for Part 1 Click here for Part 2 We are now onto Part three of my selection of a film for each year I have been alive. Sir Paul Combs, Knight of the Dillon empire set this mammoth writing prompt which has frazzled and tormented my thoughts so…

Film

14 min read