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"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

Me singing with Allo Darlin’ at the Buffalo Bar for the London Pop Fest last month. This thursday at Jamm, Brixton Rd, I shall be joining Ms Darling onstage again to perform this song from her forthcoming Wee Pop! ep. Also playing: Esiotrot, Hexicon + Beacons. Entry is free, doors at half7.

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"capitalism is like a dead herring in the moonlight - it shines, but it stinks."

Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961), concerns an American Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin (James Cagney), charged with looking after the boss’s daughter for a few weeks while she…
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Gattaca (1987) is, on the whole, quite a bad film: poorly written, horrendously cast, and, to top it all, Michael Nyman’s music somehow manages to out-schmaltz even the previous work of Nyman himself. However, the case for the defence should immediately call up the over-saturated orange glow radiating off sheer concrete in many of the exterior shots, Tony Shalhoub’s performance as a ghoulish identity salesman, and a basic concept worthy of Zizek:

“This is what the "end of nature’” means: synthetic life is not just supplementing natural life, it turns natural life itself into a (confused, imperfect) species of synthetic life.“ - Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

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Flyer for my next London gig, at The Cross Kings, April 25th.

Flyer for my next London gig, at The Cross Kings, April 25th.

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The Noughts & Crosses Band have just been interviewed for this Japanese magazine.

The Noughts & Crosses Band have just been interviewed for this Japanese magazine.

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"The secret of life is honesty and fair-dealing - if you can fake that you've got it made"

It is easy to be shocked by the stupidity and lack of understanding shown by much of the commentary on the current dispute between YouTube and PRS for Music over licence fees paid for…
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Sleeve design for my ‘i am a pedestrian’ ep on Hugpatch/total gaylord records. Available here: www.hugpatch.com/releases.html

Sleeve design for my ‘i am a pedestrian’ ep on Hugpatch/total gaylord records. Available here: www.hugpatch.com/releases.html

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"Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea."

Almost immediately after posting that last missive, I started to think more about this idea of the flatness of the cinematic image and how this is either exploited or compensated…
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"I am the BOSS. I am all around you."




Dr Who - The Green Death

I remember distinctly seeing this episode as a repeat on BBC2 as an adolescent. I wonder what it was about this particular episode…
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894), the first film to be copyrighted, perhaps the first use of a close-up (several decades before they were common), and, according to Wikipedia, the first ever comedy film.

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894), the first film to be copyrighted, perhaps the first use of a close-up (several decades before they were common), and, according to Wikipedia, the first ever comedy film.

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TODAY at the Packhorse, Leeds.

TODAY at the Packhorse, Leeds.

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The Titfield Thunderbolt (Charles Crichton, 1953) is a film about a private rail operator that, despite persistent lateness and spirited local opposition, still gets its licence renewed. Somethings never change…

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"The world doesn't exist."
Addio, fratello crudele (1971, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)

A beautiful, painterly film, shrouded in mist and haze and dappled in soft light, with a Jodorowsky-like,…
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Dr Who - The Ark starring William Hartnell.
Some particularly strange and ethereal music from Tristram Carey, particularly in episodes two and three, recalls, or rather heralds, the shimmering dreaminess of Seefeel and Fennesz.

Dr Who - The Ark starring William Hartnell. 

Some particularly strange and ethereal music from Tristram Carey, particularly in episodes two and three, recalls, or rather heralds, the shimmering dreaminess of Seefeel and Fennesz. 

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It’s a periodic typeface table!

It’s a periodic typeface table!

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