In League With Paton

Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather Even by Leonard Cohen's singular standards, 'Dear Heather' is a very peculiar album indeed, possibl...

OK, deep breath, this is going to be a massively long post. Working a night shift has not proved conducive to spending time posting my thoug...

R.E.M. - Around The Sun After a body of work that has been stunning in its consistent artistry, it seems that R.E.M.'s thirteenth album ...

Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man Sometimes it feels like John Kell and I are the only people left on the planet who still await every new E...

Old Film - New Soundtrack Squeezing into Trafalgar Square for a screening of Sergei Eisenstein's masterful 1925 film The Battleship Pote...

Back in the glorious winter of 1997, I remember staying up to the small hours with a good friend and musical collaborator composing a song w...

Catch-Up It's been too long since I posted anything here, so there's a fair amount to catch up on in terms of new albums, even thoug...

Village of the Damned A trip to see M. Night Shyamalan's The Village proved to be an expensive, and deeply unrewarding experience. To b...

A Game of Two Halves - Badly Drawn Boy at the Royal Festival Hall First of all I'm fucking pissed off. I have a spare ticket for this sh...

Smile? I Was Positively Beaming! Financial struggles have meant that I've missed Brian Wilson on all the occasions he's been to Lond...

The Mercury Music Prize Having a pop at the Mercury Music Prize has long since become a cheap shot, and before I launch into my rant at this...

Lots to catch up with in this post - mainly new albums, but I thought I'd break with tradition and start by talking about a couple of fa...