What does it sound like?: Sabrina Piggott's roots are in County Cork and folk music. Her voice is pure, even if the Irish brogue sometimes mangles the vowels in a manner similar … [Read More...]
Musings on the byways of popular culture
Nights In
John Paul White – The Hurting Kind
What does it sound like?: John Paul White made his name duetting with Joy Williams in The Civil Wars. Four Grammys later, he can call on some of Nashville's finest to help him … [Read More...]
Caleb Elliot – Forever to Fade
What does it sound like?: Venturing out to see the estimable New Jersey stylings of Nicole Atkins this week, I was drawn to the humble and self-effacing opening turn - one Caleb … [Read More...]
Gang Of Four – Happy Now
What does it sound like?: “I don’t care Bargie Boy, publish the damn pictures - see if I care! Oh, you mean those pictures. Right then, Gang Of Four it is, always liked them, … [Read More...]
Nights Out
Lukas Nelson -the real deal
Venue: Meeniyan Hall, country Victoria, Australia Date: 16/04/2019 Lukas Nelson arrived onstage jetlagged or stoned or both wearing Tom Petty's top hat, literally and left the … [Read More...]
Tower Theatre Presents: Happy Days
Venue: Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington Date: 16/04/2019 I will start out by saying that this play by Samuel Beckett focuses on a woman buried up to her waist in a mound of earth. … [Read More...]
Gavin Bryars and Academy of St Martin in the Fields et al – Never Failed Me Yet
Venue: The Tanks, Tate Modern, London Date: 12/04/2019 This was a truly unique musical experience, though I can admit to only enjoying about 15% of the complete performance. Some … [Read More...]
A Night Out with Bear’s Den
Venue: Rock City, Nottingham Date: 09/04/2019 I remain, I feel, in a minority here, a sole figure occasionally banging on about this band. and now, on the cusp of their 4th full … [Read More...]
Features
Respect The Shelving: or the six ages of collecting
moseleymoles on In which Mr Moles muses on his life through objects
Recent changes chez Moles have thrown more focus onto the shelves, racks and piles of stuff that we – chiefly I – have filled our des res with over the years. The re-organisation of the Front Room has led Ms Moles to make what she would like to think is a ‘full and final settlement’ of the space allocated for CDs/vinyl/books/comics/DVDs. That settlement in full:
The DVDs not to exceed their allocated shelving. Roughly 650 DVDs worth.
The fiction shelving not to exceed their allocated shelving. Approximately 800-900 including overflow onto the floor below and behind the sofa.
Non-fiction and vinyl not to exceed their allocated shelving. Vinyl is one area Ms Moles does chip in with approx. a third of the total. And no, we may have been together 30 odd years and produced two offspring but those collections remain unmerged.
New shelving to be provided in the front room as part of its redecoration for the CDs – I would reckon between 1500-2000 (maybe 300 Ms Moles). And for the comics – around 2500 (er…all mine, 90% 2000AD).
Though I instinctively bridle, I know that » Continue Reading.
Films
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
Year: 2019 Director: Steve Sullivan I hate funerals. Well I guess no one looks forward to funerals but they are an event where people are remembered and talked about with warmth, … [Read More...]
Cold Pursuit
Year: 2046 Director: Hans Petter Moland Every family has a film thing yes? Some shared collection of actors, genres and in-jokes that bind you all together in front of the screen … [Read More...]
A Private War
Year: 2019 Director: Matthew Heineman I can’t imagine this film will be seen by many people unaware of Marie Colvin’s story – (spoiler alert) sometimes described as a “rock star” … [Read More...]
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...]
Reads
Wrote For Luck
Author:Shaun Ryder No, I'm not twisting your melon – Shaun Ryder has followed such luminaries as Kate Bush and Neil Tennant by having a book of his selected lyrics published. Not … [Read More...]
Let´s Go (So We Can Get Back)
Author:Jeff Tweedy I´m not sure why I´m so surprised by how funny this book is. Jeff Tweedy did, after all, once open a song with “come on, children, you´re acting like children”. … [Read More...]
Metropolis
Author:Philip Kerr All good things come to an end, and sadly this is the final volume of the excellent Bernie Gunther series. Philip Kerr sadly passed away last Spring, and .a … [Read More...]
Another Planet
Author:Tracey Thorn Subtitled "A Teenager in Suburbia", this latest memoir covers the years from her birth to when she left home at the age of 18 for university in Hull (and a … [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
Nick Lowe Ticket – Manchester Royal Northern College of Music
09/06/2019 I can no longer make this gig and so I have a ticket for Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets going at face value if anyone is interested. Front row Seat AA6. … [Read More...]
Record Store Day – Love Music, Glasgow – Beat Poets onstage at 4
13/04/2019 Hey Glasgow! Loads of bands, Glasvegas at 3, Tom McGuire at 3:30, Beat Poets at 4 … [Read More...]
Mott The Hoople ’74 – spare ticket.
26/04/2019 I am double-booked for a gig on Friday 26th April, at The Shepherd's Bush Empire, with Mott The Hoople '74. I am gutted at having to make the choice but, The Tedeschi … [Read More...]
Re-Play Papworth – the Jimi Hendrix Experience
28/04/2019 Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland and Jimi Plays Monterey played from vinyl on a top-flight hi-fi in the Courtyard Café, Papworth Everard. Guest speaker (and … [Read More...]
Lonesome Chris Todd ‘Dark Horses’ EP
My friend Lonesome Chris Todd's solo debut 'Dark Horses' EP was released digitally yesterday - two originals, two blues classics: the former recorded in studio luxuriance, the … [Read More...]
Re-Play Papworth – David Bowie
31/03/2019 Two hours of 1972-era David Bowie and related – Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Lou Reed's Transformer, Mott The Hoople' All The Young Dudes, Lulu, possibly the Stooges' … [Read More...]
