One-line gig reviews for (mostly) April
This month featuring: a wodge of 80s nostalgia, a trip to Manchester to see one of my very favourites, and a last minute chance to see one of the rarest shows in town. Princess Julia, Electric Ballroom, Camden, 7 Apr – It…
One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for April 2026
This month featuring: a dreamlike internet horror, a ragequit at the BFI, a gleefully trashy Satanic romp, and a 4K anime masterpiece (plus some truly baffling nonsense). Arco (2025), Ugo Bienvenu & Gilles Cazaux – This was quite slow-burn and…
One-line gig reviews for March
This month wasn’t about big-ticket gigs so much as a run of slightly odd nights out – you probably aren’t expecting gig reviews that reference accidentally going on a yoga retreat, the phrase “I fucked his sister”, being “prissy about…
One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for March
This is a bumper month – I saw a lot of cinema – featuring: a brilliant silent film built entirely from archive train footage, a promising AI nightmare that spectacularly lost its way, giant fuck off radioactive ants and a…
Thoughts on … Trains (2024) – Maciej Drygas
How archive footage of trains tells the story of a continent – and a century One of my favourite things I’ve watched in recent years is From the Sea to the Land Beyond, directed by Penny Woolcock and with a…
One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for February
This month featuring: existential parenting panic, analogue Welsh folk horror, rock-history revisionism and the worst movie ever made (with additional UFOs wobbling on visible strings and themed cocktails). Rabbit Trap (2025), Bryn Chainey – Wow, I absolutely loved this. Creepy…
One-line gig reviews for January and February
This month featuring, among others: Suede x 2, The Umlauts, Maxïmo Park and Kaiser Chiefs, plus a bit of theatre from Inside No. 9 and the Double R Club – and the moment I was absolutely done with The Wolfgang…
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in January 2026
This month featuring, among others: Peter Hujar’s Day, Rental Family, Mercy, No Other Choice, It Was Just an Accident, Nouvelle Vague, Labyrinth, The Brotherhood of Satan and some Wallace & Gromit. Peter Hujar’s Day (2025), Ira Sachs – Resolutely nothing happens very slowly,…
A one-line review of every gig I’ve been to in December 2025
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…
A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in November and December 2025
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…