What does it sound like?: A pair of expanded reissues from ex Genesis man Ant Phillips, both coming with extra cds of unreleased material plus a dvd with a 5.1 mix of the album. … [Read More...]
Musings on the byways of popular culture
Nights In
The Steel Woods – Old News
What does it sound like?: Wes Bayliss and Jason 'Rowdy' Cope bonded over a mutual love of fishing and Southern Rock. It wasn't too long before they were writing songs together. … [Read More...]
Tom Petty – The Best of Everything
What does it sound like?: Coming out on 1st February, The Best of Everything does pretty much what it says on the tin. It brings together the best of Tom’s work with The … [Read More...]
The Residents – Commerical Album/Eskimo
What does it sound like?: 1.These are two more reissues in Cherry Red series of Residents albums 2.They are released on 25th January 2019. 3.The Commerical Album consists of 40 … [Read More...]
Nights Out
Bennett Wilson Poole
Venue: The Hawth, Crawley Date: 16/01/2019 Bennett,Wilson Poole brought a touch of sunshine to a damp and chilly Crawley last night. I, and I'm sure many others (from the remarks … [Read More...]
A Night Out (and subsequent Night In) with Moore, Moss, Rutter
Venue: Kitchen Garden Cafe, Kings Heath, Birmingham Date: 10/01/2019 Well I wasn't originally going to review this show, feeling it might prove even a bit too niche for the AW … [Read More...]
Smash the System: Live at the Sunflower, Belfast
Venue: The Sunflower Bar, Belfast Date: 30/12/2018 The audience: I had a few friends in the crowd and doubtless Petesy had many, many more there. Certainly, the room seemed to … [Read More...]
Various Cardiacs/Spratleys/Knifeworld and Zoff
Venue: The Garage, Highbury Date: 21/12/2018 I'm a relative latecomer to the mighty Cardiacs - in fact it was through this very site that I was lead to reconsider the band I only … [Read More...]
Films
Roma
Year: 1900 Director: Alfonso Cuaron It’s weird how films can happen now. Time was when your local cinema got Star Wars six months after you read the reviews, and three months … [Read More...]
The Favourite
Year: 2018 Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Despite having a pretty similar relationship with historical fact as some of the recent Dr Who episodes, this is a great piece of cinema - … [Read More...]
Bros: When the Screaming Stops
Year: 2018 Director: David Soutar I don’t suppose that many of the Massive were Brosettes in their youth, which is a shame. Not because of the music, mercifully little of which … [Read More...]
Bohemian Rhapsody
Year: 2018 Director: Bryan Singer/Dexter Fletcher Remember the line in Wayne’s World that goes "Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you … [Read More...]
Reads
Battle Sight Zero
Author:Gerald Seymour One thing that never fails to lift my post-Christmas spirits is the annual arrival of a new Gerald Seymour novel. Full disclosure – I absolutely love his … [Read More...]
Sticky Fingers
Author:Joe Hagan Not a book as you might expect about the Rolling Stones, this lengthy work is actually about Rolling Stone magazine – indeed it is subtitled The Life and Times of … [Read More...]
Pink Floyd In Objects
Author:Glenn Povey This book tells the story of Pink Floyd, not through the normal route of long narrative passages, but through a curated collection of items - instruments, … [Read More...]
The Silent Guides
Author:Professor Steve Peters Professor Steve Peters is probably best known for his previous work, the mind management guide The Chimp Paradox, as well as his work with various … [Read More...]
Games
Destiny 2
Platform:Playstation Age Rating:16+ Year of Release:2017 Review:In 22 Jump Street - possibly apart from Aliens and T2 the best ever sequel - Ice Cube greets the returning cops … [Read More...]
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: The Game
Platform:C64 Age Rating:3+ Year of Release:1985 Review:It's hard to explain how flipping massive FGTH were in 1983-5 and how much they milked that cash cow. I still recall that … [Read More...]
Noticeboard
The Fat John Sextet… releases its debut album after 56 years
22/02/2019 Sometimes these days I write long essays in reissue/archive CD booklets, but more often (not least because it’s easier) I get involved in the background of such … [Read More...]
Re-Play Papworth: Sunday afternoon vinyl playbacks
30/12/2018 By popular request, a double headliner this month of Michael Jackson's Off The Wall and Thriller, all played off vinyl on a £12,000 hifi. And a bit of scene-setting … [Read More...]
My new single is now live on iTunes / Apple Music (any soon many others)
24/11/2018 I've been quietly recording songs in my home studio for a number of years now. It's about time there was an end product so I am in the process of investigating … [Read More...]
Re-Play Papworth: Neil Young’s Harvest
25/11/2018 Musician, producer, author and Neil Young expert Sam Inglis reads from his 33 & 1/3 book on Harvest. I play the recent Archive remaster of Harvest on 180g vinyl, … [Read More...]
Tom Adams & Alexander Carson – Waterbeach Baptist Chapel
17/11/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6VDQaiXp2s&fbclid=IwAR1vq_eLNfL-MROHdYvq3ZrTMh0XIbdR7o8INie0mEE3uc7-lN9x_ZxLAIE "Berlin-based songwriter and singer performs … [Read More...]
Barmcake magazine
Hello. I thought readers might be interested in Barmcake, a magazine partly inspired by Word. Barmcake offers northern entertainment for the middle-aged and the latest issue (No. … [Read More...]
