Ex-Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt’s new band Love Amongst Ruin get things kicked off with the single ‘So Sad’.
Dear Jane.
But the point that I knew this had to come was last Thursday Jane. I don’t know if you’ll remember it; I’ve hoped you were drunk. It was the abject Scarface moment. At around 2am you sent five texts that screamed ‘I love you’.
Separate Pageants.
‘This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.’ – Baudelaire. “Separate Pageants” explores the idea of backgrounds enhancing situations, in this case a hospital, and the ways in which a setting-of-scene can influence characters and narrative.
A Slippery Slope At The Special Olympics.
Ben D Hall Explores being sexually used from a male context, and reads between the lines of how a usually banal experience – the film-and-drinks-date – can be a facade for a steaming torrent of power play, manipulation and deceit.
Review: M.I.A – /\/\/\Y/\
Forward slash, back slash, forward slash, back slash, forward slash, back slash, capital Y, forward slash, back slash. I hope this album isn’t slash.
Juliet
Juliet creeps into my room while I make sure the front door is locked. It’s been a boozy night, and so I can’t remember how she knows which room is mine.
Built To Spill – There Is No Enemy
Built To Spill have seen those they’ve influenced rise above them. With this, their first proper British release, can they beat the (slightly) younger rivals?
Public Image Ltd. @ Camden Electric Ballroom, 23/12/2009.
Public Image Ltd. loved to say they weren’t a band, they were a company. Has the recession affected share prices? Simply, no.
Tom Waits’ ‘Glitter And Doom Live’
Glitter And Doom is a live retrospective of Tom Waits’ past 20 years. With a title like that, I gave it a little listen to discover it’s grandiosity.
Calories – Let’s Pretend That We’re Older E.P
Calories describe themselves as pop/indie/punk in the classic MySpace header. But is it any good?
