Mice Parade
If you’re a fan of ambient indie rock, Fat Cat Records has probably brought a lot of good music into your world. The Brighton based record label has propelled the likes of Sigur Rós, Múm and Animal Collective into the (alternative) public consciousness. The label’s full roster of bands is certainly worth checking out […]
Music fans are now circumventing traditional media and finding new music to champion at its roots.
Music journalists display a wonderful penchant for exaggeration – taking gross liberties with the truth and twisting the facts as we see fit, we crash through the boundaries of ‘acceptable journalistic practice’.
Artist: The Futureheads
Track: The Beginning Of The Twist
Rating: * * *
Being dropped by your record label is never a good sign and often means the writing is on the proverbial wall. However, The Futureheads have made it through hard times, creating their own record label and doing the current in-thing by handing out this […]
Artist: Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Track: We Are Rock Stars
Rating: * * * *
There’s something a little bit Daft Punk about Does It Offend You, Yeah?, although their slightly rougher edge reminds you that this is music made by four guys from Reading rather than French men dressed as robots. ‘We Are Rock Stars’, like […]
Artist: The Metros
Track: Education Pt. 2
Rating: * *
The Metros choose to sing about what they know; as a teenage band barely out of school themselves the result is a song that feels familiar even upon the first listen. Lyrics such as “I had a mate called Paul/ And he was never too cool/ Got himself […]
Caught between a rather small Sainsbury’s and a ghostly churchyard, Melton’s is an unlikely find. Having been invited out to dinner by a group of London businessmen (they hoped lively female company would shake up their dull corporate lives), we were prepared for a stuffy atmosphere and self-important food.
“We have become obsessed with fame, and in ways which seem to be making skill or talent unimportant. Celebrity has become a major life-plan, and many seem to think that nothing is required on their CVs.”
As the lights went up on a madly staring William Seaward in full bishop’s regalia, it seemed that pantomime had succeeded in penetrating the usually more sober Drama Barn.
Alan Bennett’s wit descended on the Drama Barn for the latest production of Habeas Corpus, bringing a bit of light-heartedness to an otherwise serious run of plays this season.
After the opening credits, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly stages a brave half-hour during which we see only what Jean-Dominique Bauby, a sufferer of locked-in syndrome, is able to. Frustration and sexual desires are beautifully conveyed via the direction of his glance, his sardonic observations, and his memories and imagination.
Anyone setting out to see one of ‘those’ Jack Black films is likely to be disappointed by Be Kind Rewind.
De Sica’s 1948 film Ladri di biciclette, is considered a masterpiece of Italian Neorealism, a movement which thrived in Italy after the Second World War.
If you like pickled eggs, you’ll like The Blue Bell. If you’re not fond of pickled eggs, but you like the idea of a pickled egg, then you’ll certainly be agreeable to a stint in The Blue Bell.
The café is upstairs and has the sort of airy feel to it which borders on the bit-too-empty. The staff looked at us suspiciously when we entered; “Muggles?”, whispered one young waitress.
