Music
So here we are at a sold out 100 Club, a tiny venue on London’s Oxford Street, waiting to see Jason Newsted’s new band and to get the answers to a very important questions; will Metallica’s ex-bass player start doing a Jonathan Davis of Korn and burst into tears mid-song as...
To celebrate today’s launch of second album ‘Centurionaut’,we hear from bassist Joe Garcia and guitarist Stephen Kerrison about the mighty ANTA’s origins and what gets their creative lymph bubbling to create the kind of riff-heavy cosmic prog that girds one's loins for a con...
Truth be told, I have written about six drafts of this review and not been happy with it. When an album comes along that grips me to the core this much, I get to a point of obsessing over how to put my feelings into words so much that nothing I can come up does it justice. S...
Eyebrow (Art)
Fair play to Olympus. What better way to mark the release of a new camera model than to hire out an enormous 7000m² disused workshop in the centre of Berlin, commission a bunch of international artists to explore the subject ‘space and art’, and let punters loose with said €...
Being from a relatively small town you get to know what’s going on in various circles of friends, it’s not hard to find out what people are up to and talk of these things gets round pretty fast. Whether it be talk of a great band, a great artist or the town bike word spreads...
There's been some consternation in venues up and down the country about displaying the title of this show, Talking Cock. We have no such qualms about such a silly little word, but then we're dangerously underground. That the Gatehouse theatre chose to display the word in all...
Film
Poor Bill. His girlfriend is acting up, he's got a big game on the horizon, he's trying to become student body president, and with all that, his sister and parents are possibly involved in some incestuous and psychotic secret society. It’s no wonder Bill is ultra-paranoid, freaking out, and hallucinating all sorts of shit. But now B...
Way back when, there was a time when dirty puddles splashed, women looked over their shoulders, and unseen cloaks whispered death on the ugly city streets of New York City. Ah, the 80s – what a time for danger; a period when a certain slew of movies combined the gritty nastiness of everyday life with the surreal aspects of a great s...
Two Little Boys is the latest film from New Zealand funnyman Robert Sarkies, and it stars the two equally as funny, some would say more so, laugh guys Bret McKenzie and Hamish Blake. My experience with Kiwi-land is of course related to the man, the myth, and the living legend, Peter Jackson, but I'm also aware of their impressive mu...