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
The synopsis of Fly Away Home is that of a typical Saturday morning Disney-esque adventure film. Amy, a 13 year old living in New Zealand, is involved in a car crash in which her mother is killed. As a result she is forced to live with her estranged father in
It’s interesting to see how fame and success can affect the number of roadies a band has and what they have to do do get set up and then pack up at the end. A band would score points for things like this and we’d get a league
Nemesis are a metal band and quite a good one at that. You know, this is the sort of hard rocking music you find on the soundtrack on skate videos. Trouble is Nemesis bear a striking resemblance to many a metal band- ‘Empress (Of Rancor)’ (some sort of Star Wars
Around about 10.20, the BBC sports jingle starts up, soon followed by the theme to Sportsnight. I could have stayed home for that, but then I would have missed the Orb. When it comes to playing cheeky samples, the Orb have the art-form down to a T. When it
Georges Braque was one of the greatest influences on the development of art in the twentieth century. Together with Picasso, he was the founding father of Cubism, an art form which moved away from imitating nature and rejected traditional perspective and conventional space. Braque is particularly well known for his
There is a scene in Your Beating Heart which sums up why so many cinema fans in this country stay away from foreign, and particularly French, films. We see a couple in a grotty back-street Parisian café giving each other prolonged meaningful stares. This lasts for a full minute until
This double compilation album has been released to promote the Whirl-y-gig Club, currently settling into its new(ish) home in Hammersmith Town Hall. The club itself has been with us for over a decade, several years of which were spent in Old Street Town Hall where I spent many a
‘Sweet Charity’ is a musical for all the family, featuring prostitution, drugs and loads of scantily clad women. What more could any hot or otherwise blooded man from Imperial want? Get my meaning? From 1960’s Broadway to London’s West End to our very own Union Concert Hall, this
The scene is reminiscent of a music festival second stage: you’re sipping on a beer with your ears being pounded by a drum heavy PA mix, watching a band who you know little or nothing about ‘cos you’ve got nothing better to do until the headliners come on
Have you ever been disappointed when some music journalist tells you that such and such’s music is "cinematic", or, even worse, "the soundtrack to an unmade film"? Expecting something really special, the thrilling immediacy of pop music imbued within the drama and power of a
OK. Slade. Forget the tragic 1991 outing "Radio Wall Of Sound". Ignore the brilliant yet overpowering "Merry Xmas Everybody. " Try, if you can, to overlook the Reeves and Mortimer pisstake (At Home With Slade). What you are left with is unarguably the best band of the
