Episodes
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Liam Gallagher John Squire - Liam Gallagher John Squire (2024) Album Review
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
The Britpop/Madchester legends come together for arguably the finest album in the history of Liam Gallagher and John Squire albums, warning contains frequent swearing and quotation of John Squires lyrics.
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Can - Live in Paris 1973 (2024) Album Review
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
Sunday Mar 10, 2024
The most stunning of the recent four live album releases by Krautrock titans, Can, features two caveats not present on the previous releases. Actually featuring previously recorded songs, and major ones, and also vocals, by the recently deceased Damo Sazuki. It's immediately their most essential and thrilling live release and perfectly timed.
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Land Of Bad (2024) Movie Review
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
This Rambo 2-esque actioner may have one of the worst titles in modern history, and very little story, but director William Eubank is proving to be so competent technically, fans of high tech, Delta Force shoot-outs in the jungle will have plenty salivate over.
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
A Tribute To Damo Suzuki (RIP) And Can
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
With the recent passing of legendary singer, Damo Suzuki (16 January 1950 – 9 February 2024), from Krautrock legends, Can, a walk through one of the finest runs in music, a discography I would keep over the peak album periods of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd and possibly my favorite band in history.
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Evil Under The Sun (1982) Film Review
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Turning an Agatha Christie story in a broad, comedic, European farce, sounds fatal on paper. But with its acidic, modernist Noel Coward script, a cast from heaven to deliver it (Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Jane Birkin...) all sound-tracked by Cole Porter, as a film, it maybe the finest Christie adaption of all.
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
The Bricklayer (2024) Movie Review
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Hollywood's relentless imagination and originality never fails to amaze. After last weeks review of The Beekeeper, where an ex hot shot intelligence agent, enjoying anonymity in retirement as a humble beekeeper, is dragged back into action, now The Bricklayer, where an ex hot shot intelligence agent, enjoying anonymity in retirement as a humble bricklayer, is dragged back into action.
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
The Beekeeper (2024) Movie Review
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
A welcome throwback to the days Jason Statham action films weren't The Fast and the Furious related, though director David Ayer misses an opportunity to lean fully into what's great about it and create a classic of the genre.
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
After Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, my second favorite album of all time, regards drug addiction and obsessive love as the same thing as religion, in a 1997 album actually superior to OK Computer.
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Burial - Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above (2024) EP Review
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Arguably the most important British electronic music artist this side of the Aphex Twin, returns, not with ambient whale noises, but two absolute bangers. Can it be true!? Oh Happy Day!
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Gone But Forgotten: Walter Wegmüller – Tarot (1973) Album Review
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
My intermittent series on albums denied classic status at the time or forgotten from the conversation since. Here the outlier to Krautrock's astonishing Cosmic Joker releases, where some of the finest mainland Europe musicians to ever play 'rock' music, wound up being in a band they didn't even know about, but did release two proper collaborative works. One with LSD guru Timothy Leary (7UP) and this vastly superior double album, by mystic, artist and Tarot card reader, Walter Wegmüller. Featuring flat out geniuses like Klaus Schulze and Manuel Göttsching, exploring space-rock, psych-folk, drone, Psych-funk and post-rock, in a stunning double album.