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Fire in Babylon: Movie Review

Documentaries about sports teams should never be difficult to review, as for the most part they’re not very good. Whilst a sporting event watched live can be…

The Fastbacks
Seattle
live review
July 2011

classic Seattle seventies punk band reforms…and it’s great

As we watched the mainly gently graying crowd pogoing along with Kurt Bloch…

Television’s Stewart Lee has gone on record, in the Sunday Observer this very week, opining that there is some kind of occult machination behind Damon Albarn’s opera Doctor Dee, which apparently…

Primus
‘Green Naugahyde’
new album

released Sept 2011
Is it only bassists that love Primus?

Well, given their Billboard Top Ten hits and headlining slots at festivals like…

Ideal is, by far, the best comedy on TV at the moment, surreal, inventive and genuinely unhinged it stars Johnny Vegas as an out of sorts, small time drug dealer in a role that is as manic as…

Wurzel, who played guitar for Motorhead for many years has reported to have died. Born in 1949 he spent several years in one of the UKs finest ever rock bands. Born in 1949, his real name was Michael…

Ten great Science Fiction Films by Ian Johnston The ten Science Fiction titles listed below are all available in the UK on DVD. These are just a few personal favourites; there are many, many more. 1….

One year ago this weekend a handful of miscreants from Newport, South Wales, got together to do something special. Our friend, John Sicolo, had died a couple of months before – and we wanted to give…

Peter Murphy
“Ninth” Nettwerk Music
Available now…

My own knowledge of Peter Murphy stretches right back to the seminal days of Bauhaus; I first heard, and bought the Small Wonder…

The ultimate guide on where to hear new music…

I suspect I’m not alone in that quite often I find myself being asked where I hear about the music I listen too. Whenever I meet new people the…