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.

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
The Noughts & Crosses Band have just been interviewed for this Japanese magazine.
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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
TweetEdison 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.
TweetThe 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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A beautiful, painterly film, shrouded in mist and haze and dappled in soft light, with a Jodorowsky-like,…
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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