New m-orchestra single Emoting out today

It is my birthday today! Happy birthday to me! And as my present to you there is a new m-orchestra single out. Emoting is available now on all good streaming services, and if you get it from the Bandcamp store…

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark in Starve Acre

I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously…

(From L-R) Charley Stone, Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot and Piney Gir at the Lexington

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A one-line spoiler-free review of all three old movies I watched in the cinema in August 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as often…

A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in August

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The cover of Depeche Mode's Master and Servant 12" single

It isn’t every day that you realise you know exactly what you were doing forty years ago, but today I do. It is forty years to the very day since Depeche Mode released their 11th single, Master and Servant. And…

Rats Tails at the Shackwell Arms

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Mia Goth in MaXXXine

I have never really been a movies person. They last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as…

Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as often…

Neil Arthur at Islington Assembly Hall

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