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Gutterbreakz
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Gutterbreakz: good new music blog, says (probably rightly) that the Melody Maker was the paper of record back in the turn-of-the-90s-day, though I don’t remember its dance music coverage being any cop, or any any until that fantastic Damascene […]

So I’m at our other site and a colleague of mine
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So I’m at our other site and a colleague of mine, knowing I like films, said did you see Heartlands? Excited to hear I had we then went on a bit of a mutual appreciation bender for this sorely under seen film of earlier this year. (Alex Thompso[…]

Is there really that much of a difference between Moliere and the American Pie films?
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Is there really that much of a difference between Moliere and the American Pie films? Possibly. Farce is damned hard to do, and even harder to do well, it is to their credit that the American Pie films are rarely content in setting up the situation a[…]

ANDREW WK – ‘I Love Music’
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A gorilla learning the meaning of sincerity through a child’s dictionary and a Kevin Rowland solo record, and learning the meaning of music by the usual method viz. bashing things until it sounds good. There’s a curious poignancy to how t[…]

Help Me Rhonda!
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Help Me Rhonda! is a television polyglot of that feel-good judgmental hue, where bland and broken people are invigorated and reborn for our nasty little pleasure. This program has no idea of its own, only a shell format that can absorb any of its ki[…]

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