With a plot revolving around union resistance to Taylorism, I’m All Right Jack (1959) should have plenty to interest someone I know. Margaret Rutherford, Terry Thomas and John Le Mesurier all…
Watch The Pipettes online today - we are playing at the Turning Point Festival at the Roundhouse, London, at around quarter to seven this evening. Click on the image above to see the live stream.
TweetThe Noughts and Crosses Band at Catch this Wednesday, plus Hissing at Swans and Gresham Flyers. Four pounds. 8pm.
TweetIt would seem that arch-debunker of the dubious use of statistics, Ben Goldacre, has himself become the victim of a rather dubious use of statistics, for in Goldacre’s recent twitter posting (in…
Sellafield, “The most hazardous industrial building in western Europe.” (via The Guardian )
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Police lines cordoning off the whole Heygate estate, near Elephant & Castle, this afternoon, right up to the Coronet. There appears to be just one resident left in the entire block.
TweetShock Treatment (1981): What Richard O'Brien’s electrifying Rocky Horror sequel lacks in tight, coherent plotting (not helped by the American Screen Actors Guild strike, that left them forced to relocate the action from the real life town of Denton, Texas, to a television studio), is more than made up for by the effervescent production design and at least three great songs, including this one.
TweetSix Bagatelles for Music Boxes and Electronics. I. Massig
This will be the first of six short pieces I am recording in tribute to one of my favourite pieces of music of all time: Anton Webern’s Six Bagatelles for String Quartet. Unlike Webern’s bagatelles, mine are not written using tone rows (but they are atonal), and could not be played live (due to the large amount of post-recording electronic and digital manipulation) but hopefully they have something of the spirit of Webern’s work, of which Arnold Schoenberg wrote, “Every glance can be expanded into a poem, every sigh into a novel. But to express a novel in a single gesture, joy in a single breath: such concentration can only be found where self-pity is lacking in equal measure. These pieces can only be understood by those who believe that sounds can say things which can only be expressed by sound.”
Dr Who - The Armageddon Factor
…bears several distinct resemblances - from John Woodvine’s Jack D. Ripper-esque Marshall to the ‘Armageddon Factor,’ programmed into the Mentalis computer, itself - to Dr Strangelove. Best special sounds to be found in the tremulous low frequency oscillator in the main computer control room on Zeon.
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