Archive for May, 2003
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David Gray, Be Mine
By Jen Knutsson, Johan Palme, Rob Taylor and Daniel Searle — May 13, 2003
Depressive Irish ballad monger vomits out another hit for the headphones of the nation’s housewives. Give him his due, David Gray has got a good formula worked out, and he’s laughing all the way to the bank and musical purgatory. This sounds like it was written for a Dawson’s Creek scene as they look into [...]
Skin, Fleshwounds
By Ben Crawley — May 13, 2003
Distinctive voice, feisty attitude, looks to kill – female lead singers need a little bit of each to succeed in rock music still largely dominated by men. Deborah Anne Dyer, better known as Skin from Skunk Anansie, has all three qualities in abundance. Despite a few successful singles during the nineties it was Skin’s shaven [...]
Fallacy, blackmarketboy
By Fraser McFadyen — May 13, 2003
The opening track of this album promises that "by the time we’re done, we’re gonna know each other real well". I’ve played it through a few times now, so what can I tell you about Fallacy? Well, he’s a young, black, British male, proud of his home town and music scene, but with an ‘oldschool’ [...]
The Bluetones, Luxembourg
By Robbie Dale — May 13, 2003
It may be a small, quite innocuous country filling the cleavage of Belgium, France and Germany, but everyone’s heard of Luxemburg. Clean, neutral and home to European Court of Justice, Luxemburg does nothing much to bother anyone – but still you know what its flag looks like. In much the same way, The Bluetones have [...]
Audio Bullys, Egowar
By Johan Palme — May 13, 2003
There’s a reason Hip-Hop never really worked outside the United States. More than perhaps any expression before it, Rapping is heavily tied to a way of speaking, a localised language expressing localised concerns. Which means that everyone who wants in, from Tanzanian youth idols to German revolutionaries, inevitably end up sounding like they’re Bling-merchants from [...]
Stellar Stuff
By Huw Roberts — May 13, 2003
Just who are Stellastarr*? And why has Huw Roberts been sent to interview them?
Riddim Driven
By Johan Palme — May 13, 2003
Johan Palme thinks some of those damn dancehall songs sound worryingly similar…
Phone Booth
By Huw Roberts — May 13, 2003
Cert. 15 Director: Joel Schumacher Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland Runtime: 80 minutes Apparently screenwriter Larry Cohen was given this script by the master, Alfred Hitchcock, about 30 years ago. Excellent. Yet one may ask why, given all the time he has had, he could not spot the glaring holes that rip through the script [...]
Intacto
By Sam Leach — May 13, 2003
Cert. 15 Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Starring: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela Runtime: 118 minutes If this is the first review of Intacto that you have seen, then don’t read another one! Not because I’m so vain I think that mine is the best you will ever read. I say it because I’m not going to [...]
I Capture The Castle
By Fraser McFadyen — May 13, 2003
Cert. PG Director: Tim Fywell Starring: Romola Garai, Henry Thomas Runtime: 113 minutes The family unit can, as we know, be an immense source of entertainment. This has been played upon for years, decades even, by makers of the likes of The Adams Family, Family Guy and The Simpsons – to name but a few. [...]
Cous-cous a la Delia
By Lizzi Holman — May 13, 2003
This was a recipe I first made one day last summer, and since then whip it out at any excuse. Its moved away from Delia Smith’s original so as to make up for the fact that I don’t always have the ingredients necessary. The important thing is a really sharp dressing, and generous lumps of firm goats cheese.
Sizzle In The Sun
By Lizzi Holman — May 13, 2003
The sun has got his hat on, as Lizzi Holman shouts hooray and heralds the start of the best thing about summertime, the barbeque season and the joys of eating in the great outdoors.
Technique @ Oslo, Leeds
By James Murray — May 13, 2003
The first time I went to Oslo in Leeds was purely by accident. A bit drunk after drinking cocktails and playing pool in the nearby Elbow Rooms, it seemed a natural extension to the night. All I remember about the evening is that the club was orange, expensive and small. On top of this I [...]
Nestle Double Cream
By Nouse — May 13, 2003
A rip off of the original Magnum, Nestle’s chocolate and vanilla combination has some merit. The chocolate is tasty, thick and unhelpfully brittle. Its such a waste when large bits fall on the floor, an event that happens more frequently as the temperature soars. The ice cream was the biggest disappointment, as it tasted cheap [...]
Rolo
By Nouse — May 13, 2003
I just can’t take an ice cream that looks like a "turd on a stick" with any amount of seriousness. Once you’ve recovered composure enough to take a bite, the discovery of a overwhelmingly sweet centre of caramel really puts you off proceding any further with the endeavour to get to the stick. The caramel [...]
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