A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in March 2025
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…
Enjoying the Broken Veil paranormal podcast
Among recent things that I have enjoyed, which you might enjoy too, is a new creepy paranormal podcast series called Broken Veil. It is a loosely connected set of stories of strange experiences which all centre around a particular place…
I missed a Duran Duran design exhibition … booooooo!
It looks like I missed a great event in London last week where there was an evening exhibition of Malcolm Garrett‘s design work for Duran Duran between 1981 and 1986, with members of the band in attendance. I didn’t realise…
Andy Williams
As a few of my former colleagues at Reckless Records have done, I wanted to note the incredibly sad passing of Andy Williams, who I used to work with in the shop in the 1990s. Nobody ended up working in…
A one-line spoiler-free review of all three things I watched in the cinema in February 2025
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…
Go and see Mike Kelley’s Ghost and Spirit at Tate Modern before it closes
From my “I enjoyed this, you might enjoy it too” files, I urge you to go and see Mike Kelley’s Ghost and Spirit exhibition at the Tate Modern if you can before it closes at the end of this week….
Do you have five minutes to help a student with their survey about live music events and wellbeing?
Hi, it’s me. Yet again asking you to help out with somebody’s degree research. In this case it is a survey looking at personality traits, wellbeing, and the frequency of attending live music events. This survey is for a psychology…
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A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in February 2025
This monthly series is probably as much for my benefit as yours. I go to a lot of gigs and it is nice to have a way to remember them all. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of…
Have your say in a large-scale survey of live music audiences
Regular readers will know that I go to (and review) more gigs than I have hot dinners, so I was a very willing participant in a massive survey about live music – the Music Fans’ Voice survey – and you…
Defending animals unfairly maligned in movies …
If you missed it, yesterday I had a very silly article on the Guardian website in tow of news that Exeter University is offering a film studies module looking at how donkeys have been besmirched by the way they are…