I wouldn’t be surprised if The Diggers were a musical offshoot of callers to The Samaritans. The lyrics are full of laments about happy times, now long gone. They moan about their lives going nowhere, and that nobody loves them. It’s as if they are suffering from a
Marc Murphy is the young artistic director of an up-and coming dance company, V-Tol. The company has been around for just six years, but has already enjoyed considerable success, touring not only in Britain but also abroad. They are even hoping to take their current production ‘By Force of Fantasy’
Five years after her last album, ‘99.9F’, Suzanne Vega has finally released another. In the ‘80s, Suzanne Vega was one of the first singer songwriters to write about sensitive issues such as child abuse. Many have since come to expect a lot more depth to her songs. The album
Alex Gates, Jack Nicholson’s character in Blood and Wine seems to have it all, an attractive wife (Judy Davis), a sexy Latin mistress (Jennifer Lopez), a red BMW convertible and impeccable taste in wine. But the wine merchant’s finances are stretched to the limit, his marriage is in
The entire Academy has been converted into a pulsating vibrant mix up of energy and sounds. Usually the entrance is just an intermediate place between getting into the building and into the arena, but tonight there is a food stall, loads of tribal decorations and thumping rhythms playing upstairs by
I love Scotland. I only spent a short time up there, just a couple of months, but what instantly hits you up there is how much closer the people in the community seem. Everybody knows everyone else and gossip travels fast. It’s just this innate Scottishness that makes "
A lonely guy, all alone in his bedroom with only a PC, a keyboard, guitar and his imagination for company. The writer, computer, performer and ‘everything else’ behind one of the records of the year, the instant number one smash ‘Your Woman’. Jyoti Mishra, the man behind White Town, and
Another trans-Atlantic offering, and due to the amount of airplay their current single, ‘Novocaine For The Soul’, we’re all curious to see what the Americans are going to send us next. They sing of a narcotic underworld, dark days and darker nights over light, breezy, quiet melodies. No matter
The Wachowski brothers have drawn obvious comparisons with the Coen brothers. Both sets of brothers co-write and co-direct and they both are responsible for some of the best film noirs of the past few years. If anything Bound is a better debut feature than Blood Simple was in 1983. It
This novel describes the lives of Helena, a thirty-something antique restorer and her family. We see the needlessly antagonistic relationship between her father and stepmother and the other intense emotions of loved ones as they interrelate. Helena and her almost pathetic (but ultimately understandable) neuroses are the focal point of
Let me get straight to the point here - this album is not what I expected at all. The only exposure to this band that I had before this album was their last single ‘Rocco’ which was enough to initiate the line of thinking that this would be a hard-edged
It may sound like another Hollywood film about the IRA but it is in fact a romantic comedy about the sleazy world of sports promotion. Tom Cruise plays the title character, a sports agent (a sort of American Eric Hall only rather more appealing and without the cigar) who has
