INSIDE THE GESTAPO
by Helene Moszkiewiez
PIRATE QUEEN
by Judith Cook
The books aren’t related, I picked the first one because, well, that’s a pretty good if direct title, while the second had a nice psuedo-map cover that I usually fall fo[…]

What I miss about chart countdowns — a random mention of Air Supply over on ILM today got me to thinking about the last time I was thinking about them at all, which would have been 1983 or so. I was about two years into realizing there was a To[…]

Procol Harum
Those who know me reasonably well wouldn’t expect me to like this lot – there is almost nothing one might classify as psychedelic or prog that I do like. But they were the first band I ever saw live (well, discounting support[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
22: THIS IS SPINAL TAP
Some directors just get lucky. Marti DiBergi could be said to be one of those directors if you consider This Is Spinal Tap to be enough to make a career. If you however also consider his ill-fated attempts to m[…]

Spearmint – Say Something Else
In which Shirley Lee becomes a curmudgeonly DYS blogger in song form. OK so nobody on FT except me cares about Spearmint (and perhaps the rant is too predicatable for some) AND this is old news to the 5 Spearmint […]

Pie claims first political victim[…]

Indie Amnesty Xtra:
I had a sort through the remaining Amnesty items yesterday and set aside a pile of CDs which are, frankly, total no-hopers on eBay. So I’m not going to sell them on eBay. I’m going to sell them here.
THe pile consists […]

FREAKY TRIGGER Top 25 Scariest Things
No.24: Crocodiles
Ending up as something’s lunch is an unpleasant prospect in whatever case, but crocodiles are scarier than cannibals, because being eaten alive is where the real horror lies. In a film whe[…]

in which Jude Law teams up with Judith Hann and Michael Rodd to save the world from experiments that do not work on television. If Tomorrow’s World still existed, Sky Captain would be exactly the kind of film that would have been hugely feature[…]

STIMULANTS A GO GO: my heartbeats, my dexys, my life! If only Kevin Rowland had tried my “Sleepy Time Tea” (available in Planet Organic on Torrington Place, Perseopolis, the EXCELLENT Persian shop in Peckham and probably every other soddi[…]