What’s wrong with that?

I’m not sure this counts, but I saw a comedian upstairs at a pub in Islington. Camden Passage if anyone knows the pub I mean. It was like a new talent-try-out thing, I suppose, because he was clearly new at the […]

w00t!

RA’s review seems overly obsessed with the album’s dubbier aspects.

I’m very fond of this one, also…

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Ah, glad you enjoyed The River at Night!

Seen:

The first ever depiction of blumpkins (I hope!) in the latest Julia Davis thing, Sally4Ever. Uncle, a BBC3 sitcom which dates back to about 2012, which has proved unexpectedly great. The Fyre documentary […]

I lost the iTunes vs radio war in our house, and then lost the 6Music vs Radio 2 war, meaning that I was listening to Chris Evans most mornings for a couple of years. I never really liked him as such, and it was […]

I can’t get over how good this is. The piano part reminds me of the Moon soundtrack, and the vocal is just wow. Looks like the vid is NSFW.

I loved it, yes. It does something interesting with its The Descent-meets-Deliverance pitch by taking established horror tropes and getting right under their skin. Most of all, though, it’s a proper page-turner. […]

Seen

Atomic Blonde. I was expecting great things from this, given that it comes from ‘the people who brought you John Wick’, but ended up being a bit conflicted about it. Bad points are a terrible, gurning […]

This. It’s a wonderful album.

I didn’t have an especially good year, book-wise. I must have had close on 50 DNFs, one of which I bailed on about two chapters from the end.

Then, in December I read two cracking horror-thrillers: The River […]

I came away with a great Recommended Records sampler from my one and only trip to Ultima Thule. It’s currently fetching silly money on Discogs.

Thank you, Ultima Thule!

So proud right now.

The John Harris piece in The Guardian was nice, but this piece from Stuart Bailie really gets him.

Meanwhile, Cavanagh’s piece on The Triffids — mentioned on both those obits — is here. It’s well worth a read.

Mandy, I, Tonya and Three Billboards for me.

David Cavanagh, the phenomenally talented music journalist (he wrote the Mojo piece on Ian McCulloch that we discussed on here), author (My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For the Prize; Good Night and Good Riddance: How […]