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Album Review: Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett

Released just over twelve months after the well-received Wonderful, Glorious, Eels’ latest offering has one of those album titles that gives fair-warning about what exactly to expect from its content.…

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Incoming: A Thousand Times Good Night

Rebecca is one of the world’s top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber group, she gets too near and is badly hurt in an explosion. Back…

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News: Blackberry Smoke announce October UK Tour

It should be no surprise that Atlanta, Georgia rockers Blackberry Smoke are out on the road, on average they spend most of their time touring, on average playing in excess…

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New Video: The Horrors “So Now You Know”

I am an unabashed fan of The Horrors and already enthusiastically reviewed the first release off their much anticipated fourth album “Luminous”, the seven minute long epic “I See You“. The…

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Live: Ben Watt/Bernard Butler. The Greystones, Sheffield 15.04.14, plus Gallery

A full three decades after the release of his first, and until now, only solo record, North Marine Drive, it’s been something of a renaissance of late for Ben Watt,…

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DVD Review: Wrinkles

Based on the award-winning comic by Paco Roca, Wrinkles is a very unique kind of European animated film. It reminds me in tone and structure of the wonderful When the…

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Listen: Stillwave ‘Modes of Transport’

You can get bogged down with trying label stuff. But it can also go the other way. Post-punk, new wave, whatever you want to call it, has been a term…

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Not Forgotten – The Divine Comedy – Fin de Siècle

Neil Hannon (the man who effectively is The Divine Comedy), cut a unique dash through the British music in the mid 90s, as his almost imperceptible rise to near-fame ran…

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DVD Review: Ace in the Hole (Masters of Cinema)

Masters of Cinema’s beautiful new transfer of Billy Wilder’s superb Ace in the Hole is an absolute treat. Whilst Wilder, one of the best directors of his generation, is better…

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Tom Brosseau: Profile

Outside it’s a beautifully bright Sunday lunchtime, but chill in the shade. Indoors, in the snug of Paper and Cup, it’s cosy warm. Tom Brosseau, his friend Eva, his manager…

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Album Review: Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett

Incoming: A Thousand Times Good Night

News: Blackberry Smoke announce October UK Tour

New Video: The Horrors “So Now You Know”

Live: Ben Watt/Bernard Butler. The Greystones, Sheffield 15.04.14, plus Gallery

DVD Review: Wrinkles

Listen: Stillwave ‘Modes of Transport’

Not Forgotten – The Divine Comedy – Fin de Siècle

DVD Review: Ace in the Hole (Masters of Cinema)

Tom Brosseau: Profile