Someone made a comment on my Villeneuve review- and I checked out the link, to find that I am quoted on Villeneuves website!!!!

[Read more →]

Robbie Williams - Intensive Care : as always, the media is in complete overdrive for Robbie’s new release - there seems to be almost wall-to-wall coverage on TV and Radio - documentaries, live shows and chat-show appearances…we’ve seen a huge feature in GQ with Robbie and a bevy of naked ladies (nice work if you [...]

[Read more →]

Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel : Its 20 years since I discovered Depeche Mode, maybe a little more - and every time they release an album my anticipation is the same, my reaction is the same and I end up feeling exactly the same about their music. The first single ‘Precious’ emerged a few [...]

[Read more →]

Oh man, did anyone see this last night on Channel 4 - absolutely brutal portrayal of the upper echelons of the Government during the scandal that broke when David Blunkett was having an affair with a married woman. Bernard Hill played Blunkett brilliantly, with Robert Lindsay as Blair, and a whole host of detestable [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve now watched two episodes of this new crime drama on ITV - Vincent - starring the ever brilliant Ray Winstone as an ex-copper turned private detective - who tries to hold his life together, whilst solving cases that come the way of his detective agency. I’ve got to say the plots are [...]

[Read more →]

Mew - And the glass handed kites : 2 years after their debut album - Frengers - I read a review of this in one of the Sundays, it was all talk of Sonic Youth, Sigur Ros and Mars Volta - which is enough of a mixture to put most people off, but I persevered [...]

[Read more →]

Starsailor - On the Outside : There is always a danger that Starsailor will get lumped in with the other gentle british guitar bands, but there is something that sets them apart from the usual. On the Outside is their 3rd album following on from the 2003 release, ‘Silence is Easy’. This takes a similar [...]

[Read more →]

Not working too hard here….working on a new site for Shikara (the club I work at) and a new venture for my brother.

[Read more →]

I can’t find anything on Amazon about this CD, so no picture - or even much research - this group appear to be French, and to be fair…they sound French. Its a brilliant album - veering along a wobbly line between anthemic pop (strings, vocals, harmonies) and twitchy electronica (sequencers, drum machines) - theres hints [...]

[Read more →]

I thought I was going to have to delete everything, what a mess this site was - I found some folders missing - and my formatting had gone all to cock. Its fixed now, I’ve reverted back to this much better template, and I won’t be changing anything soon!

[Read more →]