Category Archives: Culture
Vote ‘Moon’ Spike Scream 2009 Awards
Duncan Jones’ debut feature ‘Moon‘ has been nominated in 4 categories in this years Spike Scream Awards. Celebrating all that’s great in Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comics & Horror, the Scream Awards covers a total of 32 fan approved categories. ‘Moon’ has … Continue reading
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Tagged Awards, Duncan Jones, Moon, Movies, Nathan Parker, Sam Rockwell, Sci-Fi
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Moon: Review
Amazing performance from Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell coming towards the end of a three year shift on the Moon mining helium 3 for Earth based energy company Lunar Industries. Cut off from Earth due to comms problems, Sam’s final … Continue reading
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Tagged Classic, Clint Mansell, Duncan Jones, Helium-3, Moon, Movies, Sam Rockwell, Sci-Fi
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Iggy Pop – ‘Preliminaires’ preview
Great little widget off the Iggy Pop Preliminaires site to give an taste of his new release on 25th May 2009. Single ‘King of the Dogs’ was released 27th April and is currently available to download on iTunes. Enjoy. Get … Continue reading
Review: Paul Weller Wolverhampton Civic Hall 17/03/09
The Modfather took to the stage @ Wolverhampton Civic Hall last night with a stripped down band including, I was glad to see, Ocean Color Scene’s Steve Craddock. Kicking off with ‘Peacock Suit’ we were treated to almost two hours … Continue reading
Bollox to the Sex Pistols – Here come The Specials
I have decided to flog my Sex Pistols tix, read a few recent reviews and decided that watching them wheeze around the stage is something I can well do without. I turned 10 in 1980 and received ‘The Specials’ The … Continue reading
Sleeveface – My first effort
After reading this article on BBC and then the Sleeveface site, could not resist having a go, so here is a quicky. Have a go yourself and join the Flickr group
David Jordan “Sun Goes Down” IS Wizbit
Right Pop Pickers, compare and contrast the amazingly well received new single from David Jordan “Sun Goes Down” With the Theme to TV magician Paul Daniel’s eighties childrens TV show Wizbit, which can be listened to/downloaded from here If I … Continue reading
Film Review: Rattatouille
Before going to see Pixars ‘Ratatouille’ with the family this afternoon, the only plus point I could think of was the thought of at least 90 minutes sleep in a large dark room. I was just not looking forward to … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Movies, Pixar, Ratatouille, Review
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Best of Iggy Pop – Free in Sunday Star UK
What a combination eh, more than any hot blooded man can resist, I for one shall rush up to the newsagents immediately before they all sell out…