December 2009
8 posts
"Hello, I must be going!" Handel's Ezio and the... →
Though it may come as a surprise to some, it seems that Ezio, always the blacksheep in Handel’s operatic oeuvre, is experiencing something of a revival. Only last month, the…
Hauntological Penguins →
WWF’s new ‘Adopt a Pengiun’ TV ad features specially commissioned music by Belbury Poly, thus completing a circle opened up when Jim Jupp and his Ghost Box label mates started rhapsodizing over…
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Pipettes Interview
93feeteast:
Saturday nights at 93 Feet East are always brimming with delight and dancefloor joy. But this week huge amounts of anticipation will be making its way to the east.
Walk along Brick Lane, Saturday night attire at the ready, stride 93 times quick march until you reach us and resident promoters Bangers and Mash, who will be brining The Pipettes to 93 Feet East for a night of musical...
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‘Your friend Beethoven patronized him, the son-of-a-bitch. Told him to keep on writing tunes, that was what he was good for. All Rossini was doing at the time was…
"God is opening his doors for a moment, and his... →
Despite the presence of British composers David Bedford and Andrew Poppy contributing arrangements to Strawberry Switchblade’s one and only (eponymous) album, it was …
Fantastic Mr Fox →
Mid-way through Wes Anderson’s highly enjoyable new film of Roald Dahl’s classic, Mr Fox (George Clooney) turns to his wife (Meryl Streep) in a moment of apparently earnest contrition, and…
Journey to the Moon (Kutlug Ataman) →
The song ‘Dave the Moonman’ by the Scottish band Looper concerns a character, the very ‘Dave’ of the title, who spends his time at parties biting people’s ears of about the why the moon…