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Film Review: Girlhood (Bande de Filles) – BFI Flare 2015

For the first time in an age, I’m back at the British Film Institute’s LGBT festival, in the only screen that matters. This evening NFT1 hosted Céline Sciamma’s 2014 feature…

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DVD Review: Wooden Crosses ( Masters of Cinema)

Whilst war was mainly glorified in early cinema (often in the name of propaganda), there’s always been a strong seam of pacifistic film making. The most famous of examples are…

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Music

Meet: ‘Walks With Motorists’: A Talk With White Hills

If you’re a fan of New York City’s White Hills, then you know they’re not a band to rest on their laurels. With each album they seem to take their fuzzed-out…

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Live Review: Bang Bang Romeo at The Plug, 21 March 2015

It’s been almost a year since I last saw Bang Bang Romeo live. That’s not to say they haven’t been playing the gigs, indeed their multiple appearances at the Tramlines…

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Live review: The Lovely Eggs at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge.

When a singer is hammered on stage it is usually incredibly irritating but tonight it actually adds to the anarchy this talented duo seem to thrive on. When Holly Ross…

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Not Forgotten: David Byrne – Feelings

In retrospect Feelings is probably the last time that David Byrne made a conscious effort to make an album that might sell to an audience beyond his most obsessed fans.…

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Features: Tournee De Satanists – Dirty White Fever / Eye of the Liger – Tour diary (part 3)

Welcome to part 3 of Tournee De Satanists.[Parts 1 and 2 can be found by clicking HERE] Last week we left the bands flailing around in a dark windowless room…

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Track: Drake – Energy (Whiiite’s Future1Hundred Remix)

I’ve just stood in the extreme cold and watched my son, seemingly unbothered by the wind and temperature, play football. I’m between naps on the sofa, and badly in need…

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Not Forgotten – The Cult – Electric

The Cult, bless their ridiculous hairstyles, couldn’t have found it easy to follow-up their unexpectedly successful album Love, particularly as it had included one of the key rock songs of…

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See: Little Death Machine release new video for Pale/December

Little Death Machine‘s new single ‘Pale’, and b-side ‘December’, dial things down several notches, take the rock out of the equation and gently deposit us into slower, hazier soundscapes. There’s still…

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Film Review: Girlhood (Bande de Filles) – BFI Flare 2015

DVD Review: Wooden Crosses ( Masters of Cinema)

Meet: ‘Walks With Motorists’: A Talk With White Hills

Live Review: Bang Bang Romeo at The Plug, 21 March 2015

Live review: The Lovely Eggs at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge.

Not Forgotten: David Byrne – Feelings

Features: Tournee De Satanists – Dirty White Fever / Eye of the Liger – Tour diary (part 3)

Track: Drake – Energy (Whiiite’s Future1Hundred Remix)

Not Forgotten – The Cult – Electric

See: Little Death Machine release new video for Pale/December