In League With Paton

Teenage Fanclub, The Scala, London 29/3/05 It’s been a while since we’ve seen The Fannies round these parts. Their last tour was a couple of...

Yes, for the first time since last year's Glastonbury Festival I will be hitting the radio airwaves once more! In League With Paton (the...

5x2 (Dir: Francois Ozon) This new film from Francois Ozon, the enfant terrible of French cinema, appears to have divided critics somewhat a...

Rilo Kiley at the Marquee 16/3/05 I normally hate all seated gigs, but a chair would have been a great relief at this one. I haven’t been ke...

The Arcade Fire, King's College Student Union, 8th March 2005 I don’t normally go in for hyperbole, but this really was something quite ...

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...