Debut Album From Local Surrey Band – Outcry Collective

August 11, 2009 music

Well, can you say “guitar-led”? Outcry Collective certainly can and do with some style and hints of substance on their debut album Articles (Visible Noise). It sounds like it’s led by guitarist Chris Phelps as it’s his sound that dominates over Steve Sitkowski’s vocals, Robert Pryor’s bass and Sam Burden’s drums. It sounds at times [...]

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Heavy band Jet add third album – review

July 14, 2009 music

Australian heavy rockers Jet have recorded a third album, check the review from Jay Miller at
Heavy rock band Jet soars again

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Happy Birthday Everyone!

July 14, 2009 music

Happy birthday from me to Diana Rigg, Carlos Santana, John Lodge, Kim Carnes, Paul Cook, Stone Gossard, all of whom have meant something to me in my life. Hi from mine to yours.
How do I know it’s their birthdays? I looked here;
http://www.sunherald.com/nation/story/1470987.html
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Chanbara Beauty – not a beauty of a review

July 14, 2009 music

New sequel movie Chanbara Beauty is reviewed together with the original er, Chanbara Beauty by Randall Larsen (the review, not the movies) who will be familiar to some from his work with Cinefantastique magazine. The connection here? The heavy rock soundtrack, which also gets a bit of a dissing from Randall at  http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/07/13/chanbara-beauty-chanbara-beauty-vortex-a-saga-of-sword-and-skin/
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Joe Jackson, hero or villain?

July 7, 2009 Ruminations

A lot of people were unhappy when Joe Jackson first appeared in public to comment on his son Michael’s death. Unhappy because, instead of starting off with a tribute to his recently-departed youngest son, superstar Michael Jackson, Joe chose to begin his address with an announcement about his new record company, and introduced his new [...]

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Looking for a review of your band?

July 7, 2009 music

This guy here wants bands to review;
http://chewinggumfortheears.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-freeland-cope-12.html
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Moaning and Hugh Jackman and Pirate Bay

April 21, 2009 music

Much public hand-wringing and moralising from Hugh Jackman and the movie studios about online distribution of movies before they get to the big screen. The Pirate Bay guys are in the news, having just been fined and imprisoned for allegedly assisting in just that.
What the Pirate Bay, Demonoid and all the other torrent sites have [...]

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Star Trek – The Latest

April 21, 2009 Ruminations

Can I just jump in here to say that the original point of Star Trek was to ask, how would we solve any particular problem if and when we encountered it? The captain and crew were presented with a problem, one that could be presented in an open-ended sci-fi context the better to make the [...]

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Wendy Richard Dead

February 26, 2009 Ruminations

Give over.
That’s pretty much the first thing I ever heard her say actually. Small-time singer Mike Sarne recorded a single called Come Outside, centuries ago now it seems like, in which likely lad Mike entreated a cheery Cockernee bird, as the specie were referred to in those pre-PC days, to, ahem, “Come Outside” where under [...]

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Punk

February 22, 2009 Ruminations

When I was a younger man punk originally meant a worthless juvenile, in Mickey Spillane-type books, Chandler, Hammet etc, noir in general in fact. If you were a punk you were some worthless no-good kid likely as not trying to be above himself. Ptooie on punks, then. And then you had Punk, with McLaren and [...]

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