"Wire contributor, semi-mythical pop svengali, erstwhile thespian, sampler troubadour and untidy kitchen user" - Owen Hatherley of Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy
"Your songs are pretty little paths - take us somewhere nice." - Elodie Amandine Roy, Applejack Zine
The new Pipettes single, ‘Stop the Music’ is released today on Fortuna Pop! Do please go out and buy it instead of just ripping it off. The 7" vinyl also contains the…
It is tempting to wonder if Pierre Schaeffer, Luc Ferrari and the other members of the Groupe Reserches Musicales were aware of the presence in 1963 of an American named Terry Riley at one of the…
Not quite 3D, no longer really 2D, the new Clash of the Titans multiplex-filler, shot in two dimensions but re-processed into three to cash in on the success of Avatar, survives in an…
There is a wonderful moment in the super8 home movies of Jimmy Watts, in which his son, as a young boy, is dressed as a stage magician performing simple tricks by utilising the camera’s…
James Cameron’s Avatar resembles, in its structure and function, a porno movie. But, just as Baise Moi does not resemble pornography because of the sex (no porn director who wished to…
a word from the yaghan language of tierra del fuego. “the most succinct word,” according to the guiness book of world records, and one of the hardest to translate. defined as: a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
At the start of former Golden Turkey Award winner, The Swarm(1978), Richard Widmark’s General Slater at first assumes the attack to be a pre-emptive communist strike - and who can…
Performed by “A Little Orchestra” at Jamm, Brixton. Part of the How Does it Feel Loves Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, of which there are many photos here. A thoroughly enjoyable…
“Well, you get the idea, right ladies and gentlemen?” demanded the “major proselytising force” Charles Hazlewood, conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, after pianist Tim Carey had…
I have never watched more than a fragment of the Antiques Roadshow, nor for that matter Cash in the Attic or any of their ilk. I am nonetheless enormously pleased that such…
It is now several weeks since I saw the Vladimir and Estragon piano duo perform at nonclassical, but the performance remains imprinted on my mind for its freshness, its…