In League With Paton

Well I promised posts over the weekend, and have failed in my duty largely due to vegetating in front of Snooker on the TV (if there is a tr...

Two pieces of news to report which have raised my spirits in the last couple of days. First off - Columbia Records are to release a new Bruc...

Patrick Wolf – The Borderline, 14/02/05 In search of something productive to do to avoid the tedium of Valentine’s day, I picked up a last m...

The Broken Family Band – Welcome Home, Loser (Track and Field) Strawberry Fair, Midsummer Common, Cambridge, 2003 – The Broken Family Band h...

First of all, I must issue an apology of sorts for the recent paucity of posting on this blog. But in staying away for a while, I have left ...

Elvis Costello and the Imposters – Hammersmith Apollo, London 10/2/05 I’ve already spent a great deal of space on this blog bemoaning lazy c...

The First Reviews of 2005! The new year is certainly beginning with a bang. Indeed, so many of the key releases of the year for me seem ...

Vera Drake (Dir: Mike Leigh, 2003) It’s only the first week of the new year and here already is the year’s first must-see movie (with the ex...

Rants 2004 Well you’ve heard what I liked in 2004, so I thought it might be fun to begin 2005 on a resoundingly negative note by having a...

A Quick Plug Readers of In League With Paton may wish to know that my band, Unit, have a few gigs lined up. Sadly we're only gigging...

Fun for 2005! Here are some albums expected in 2005 that I am looking forward to immensely… Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney – Superwo...