Manchester Academy 2. Support: Richard Swift. So I finally went to another gig. It had been a while since I was last in Manchester, so I enjoyed the return to the Cornerhouse* café (I love that place, and there is nowhere that good in Leeds. Fact); brought back memories of my university days, when IContinue reading “Live Review: My Morning Jacket, 23rd August 2006”
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HERO’S 2006: middleweight & light heavyweight tournament final
Given that I had so much fun writing up the Pride show a few weeks ago, I thought I might as well do the same with their Japanese Mixed Martial Arts competitors – Hero*s. The latter company was near the end of two tournaments, at Middleweight (154lbs) and Light Heavyweight (187lbs) – the semi-finals andContinue reading “HERO’S 2006: middleweight & light heavyweight tournament final”
Wolf Eyes – Human Animal
Sub Pop (2006) This album is really seedy and it literally just sent shivers down my spine. Ominous and grim, it’s the opposite of Burned Mind. The devastation, as opposed to being constant, is threatened. And it plays with the mind. What started off as some exercise in darkly ambient sax-skronk has mutated, Tetsuo-style, intoContinue reading “Wolf Eyes – Human Animal”
The Week in Review! 2: Electric Boogaloo!
Sopranos is absolutely magnificent at the moment, it really is. I was concerned that the whole supernatural/philosophical theme they were looking at with the coma episode would peter out once Tony was back in the real world, but thankfully that has turned out not to be the case. Fortunately for me, this first episode ofContinue reading “The Week in Review! 2: Electric Boogaloo!”
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