Mina, a young white South African girl, visits her old black nanny Sophie, whom she hasn’t seen for 10 years, in her home in Soweto. The reunion is not as joyful as she had hoped. When looking for things past, one often searches for and remembers what has never
I’ve seen that girl somewhere before. Yes, she was in Eastenders, wasn’t she? Hold on, she was in Harry Enfield just yesterday as well. In fact, if I dig deep I can think of dozens of things she’s been in. Nicola Stapleton, cameo sensation, comes to the
Redd Kross have always been a cool band to be into, inspiring the likes of Pavement, REM and Faith No More. Formed back in 1978, they’ve somehow always managed to remain just on the edge of the mainstream it doesn’t help when the average age of your band
Mansun have been around for nearly two years now, and when I first heard them, a single that is not included on this album, I thought they were one of a wave of Oasis clones. Before hearing this album I was a bit apprehensive about them because I had the
Having heard numerous R & B albums over the past year, which mostly failed to break out from the mould of predictable loops and beats, this debut album from Martine Girault is definitely a breath of fresh air. Entitled ‘Revival’ it is also the name of her first single, which
A fully comprehensive popular music catalogue on one CD ROM is a great idea. No more searching through dusty back copies of Record Collector, no more doubts about whether you’re missing any of your idol’s obscure releases, instant searches for tracks, musicians and labels. Unfortunately, this CD isn’
When I picked this up I didn’t know what I would be presented with, but the word soul really intrigued me. What I got was really quite simply brilliant. An album that refuses to be pigeon-holed, I attempted to fit it to some sort of musical category salsa, latin,
Cunningly timed to be released on Valentine’s Day, She’s the One, is the story of the ‘fighting Fitzpatricks’, an Irish-American family of men wrestling with infidelity and their muddled philosophies on life and love. Mickey (Edward Burns) is content to be a lay-about, care-free bachelor until one day
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go and see this play because it didn’t really sound like my kind of thing: "An exploration of contemporary drag and gay culture". I usually go for things like Les Miserables or Sunset Boulevard. The theatre turned out to
The Courtyard is a tiny theatre, almost a converted garage next door to King’s Cross. When I arrived and looked around, I couldn’t help but shudder at the prospect of what I thought was going to be a long and tedious evening. How wrong I was! As the
Bouge-de-la is a fairly young company. Several well-known people worked together on this latest project, Under Glass, amongst them Andrew Dawson, currently directing Wallace and Grommit Alive on Stage. After selling out at the premiere in the British Festival of Visual and Devised Theatre, their award-winning creation returns to BAC.
Pavement are growing up, their music is maturing album by album. But don’t run for the hills quite yet - they haven’t turned into (urgh) the Counting Crows or their earnest check-shirted ilk, not by a long way. There’s a lot less of their naďvely wayward fooling
