This month featuring, among others, Stereolab, The Last Dinner Party, and not quite Blur. A Certain Ratio: Tribeca and ACR:NYC 1980, Trades Hall, Walthamstow, 1 December – A double bill of films which will be the closest I ever get to seeing…
Happy new year! As has become a tradition, I will be at the helm of the Guardian’s live blog for NYE later today. Before that we published a First Edition newsletter that I am rather fond of, as myself and…
A double helping as I’m back at work full-time which has slowed down my afternoon cinema trips, but nevertheless I got to see Bugonia, Palestine 36, Animalia, The Shining, The Alien Dead, Train Dreams, plus big screen music experiences from…
No Thursday news quiz this week as it is Christmas day, but why not treat yourself to the first ever First Edition quiz of the year? Seeing as I’m temporarily one of the writers on the Guardian’s daily news newsletter,…
I usually post something on Christmas Eve because it is my blog-o-versary, although I realise it risks coming across like one of those family circular letters. Thank you for continuing to read my personal blog posts, more than two decades…
I mentioned earlier this week that I had spent a day in Derby at the beginning of the month at the Quatermass event, and off the back of that I am particularly pleased with today’s First Edition newsletter. In it…
I had some fun on Sunday going to the annual dachshund Xmas walk in Hyde Park, which I also used as an excuse to report on it and continue my drive to become the Guardian’s official dachshund correspondent on a…
To my shame, despite being a massive science fiction nerd, I had never seen a single second of any of the various Quatermass television serials or films. That changed earlier this month, when I spent a day at the Quatermass…
I’ve written today some thoughts for the Guardian on The War Between The Land And The Sea, the Unit-focused Doctor Who spin-off that is an ecological morality tale featuring 1970s monsters The Sea Devils. “Whether The War Between the Land…
This month featuring, among others, Wet Leg, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan, Adam Ant, ABC, Fields of the Nephilim, Desperate Journalist, Swans, Sananda Maitreya, Toyah, and me literally annoying Robert Fripp … Heathen Apostles, O2 Forum, Kentish Town, 1 Nov – Sort of…