Oxymoronic fictionalized biopic…
Film Review: Montage of Heck – 8/10
Powerful documentary brings us closer to the truth behind Kurt Cobain than ever before.
Film Review: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets – 7.5/10
Love letter to Sheffield that also features Pulp.
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Live Review: Dandy Warhols @ Sheffield Leadmill
Dandy Warhols are a band that are hard to pin down. Underground heroes but stadium rockers. Resolutely musically ambitious but a pop band. This makes for a confusing live experience. After support band Dark Horses won over a sizeable crowd with their atmospheric psychedelic sound the Dandy’s strode on to the stage with little fanfare.
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Film Review: Upside Down: The Creation Records Story – 8.5/10
‘The first day going into Creation, scrawled on the wall behind Tim Abbott’s desk in big black felt pen was ‘Northern Ignorance’ and I thought, ‘That kind of describes me, I fucking love this place already, I’ve not been here two minutes’
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Live Review: Frank Turner @ Sheffield Academy 2015
I first saw Frank Turner supporting The Gaslight Anthem at Nottingham Rock City back in March 2009. I had gone to see Gaslight but I left wowed by both Frank Turner’s songs and the incredible crowd reaction to Worse Things Happen At Sea and set closer The Ballad of Me and My Friends. From there I became a bit Frank obsessed buying both his albums and playing them to death. I became that guy who bores people at parties about an artist they have never heard of, insisting they listen to Photosynthesis or Reasons To Not Be An Idiot.
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Live Music: Space @ Doncaster Live Lounge
Doncaster has always had a healthy relationship with the Britpop era going right back to the legendary Britpop night at Karisma in the 90’s (currently being revived on the last Saturday of every month at Vintage Rockbar).
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Film Review: Joe Strummer The Future is Unwritten – 5.5/10
Frustrating documentary doesn’t do it’s fascinating subject matter justice…
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Film Review: A Hard Day’s Night – 7.5/10
‘I’d probably have to say… The Best of the Beatles.’