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"EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” flashed forth in big letters when push came to shove and the world's biggest stadium rock band discovered leather pants and irony. They used to be incredibly shit. Then they were quite good for a while in the early 90's, and started going shit again. This is an album »
So, what do you do years after your iconic rock star frontman and pretty posterboy commits suicide and need some quick dosh? Cobble together some old tracks and release an ill thought compilation album with a so-called ‘unreleased’ track or two? Sound familiar? Evidently, some marketing bod thought that on»
And so returns everyone's favourite cannibal. The kind of psychopath you could have round for dinner and polite conversation, discussing fine art and fine wines….. just as long as you made sure that he's not doing the cooking. Because, Ladies and Gentlemen, Hannibal Lecter is back. Sort of. Adapted from t»
Country is sometimes a dirty word. It brings to mind people like Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers – and all too often ignores the less commercial, alternative country scene that doesn’t make it to the front pages: And Puerto Muerto fall into the latter Perhaps closest to like bands such as perennial underground indie f»
Veteran metal stalwarts Iron Maiden, who as owners of over 200 gold and platinum discs, and obviously short of a few bob, will make their fans run to the cash tills soon with some more cash-in (sorry, I meant ‘retrospective’) releases, such as their third ‘best-of’ compilation album since 1996… They relea»
The Bourne Identity is heralded as some sort of radical re-invention of the spy movie, when in fact, its no such thing. What it is however, is a slick, highly entertaining, plot-twist filled thriller that is well above the cerebral level of yer average Hollywood bullet-filled blockbuster. I mean, the whole»
“Do you like drum n’ bass?” shouts out singer J.S. Clayden at one point tonight. A good indicator that it was never going to be a normal metal gig really. Oh, that and the squelchy techno breakbeats, bleeps and beeps in the background…. Pitchshifter (2002 style) seem to find themselves in a position»
Embryon aren’t your usual band : an all girl teenage metal band, and Tbilisi in Eastern Europe isn’t normally where you’d look for hot new talent. It’s hardly bleedin’ Camden now is it? (I mean, can you imagine lots of A&R men running around provincial towns in Eastern Europe asking where the Good Mixer is? I know I»
“Woo Does War”. Musta seemed like a great idea at the time: give the legendary Hong Kong director director of Vietnamese war epic “Bullet In The Head” (and mega-success “Mission Impossible 2“) a bigger budget, an A-List star and ..well, you get the picture. From the opening trademark shot o»
“Making of” documentaries don’t normally make it to the big screen, but “Lost in La Mancha” is an exception. You can’t have a “making of” when the movie didn’t get made, can you? Well, now you can, because “Lost In La Mancha” follows the dream of Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys) to make a mov»
Oh look! Ben Affleck saves the world! AGAIN! Woo-hoo! Adapted from a Tom Clancy book (which is not so much a book, more of a doorstop with 1000+ pages), this sees Ben Affleck as CIA spook Jack Ryan on his way up: when the Russian president dies, Ryan is dispatched to Russia to find out more. But th»
News is filtering out about the 60’s rock legends The Doors upcoming gigs and a secret show to boot… Following up the VH1 storytellers performance, and now with Ian Asbury (The Cult) filling in for the long-deceased Jim Morrison, The band play in Los Angeles (September 6-8) and Toronto (September 2»
Imagine this.... It is the year 2020. Mankind is on the Run, Hiding and Surviving like Nomads from the fire-breathing nemesis that brought us back to the dark ages: Dragons, the scourge of mankind that brings death from the skies... In the midst of this is Quinn (Christian Bale), leading a sma»
"Listen Here Wolfchild!
I speak to you of Science Of Mythology
I Speak Of Maverick Deviation
The Psychotronic Love Commandos
We Shall Be Drunk On Stars
We Shall Fear Nothing
Demand The Impossible
Dream Your Destiny
Defy The Logic Of Alphabets
I Slayed The King Of The World!
Not»
The Manics will preface their forthcoming greatest hits tour with a secret-ish date... But don’t expect to buy tickets in a hurry: Or at all! The band who prefaced their 3rd album with the words “Everything is for sale” will play the 800 capacity Cardiff St David's Hall in Cardiff on November 18 an»
Oasis's Noel Gallagher is mellowing out in old age, apparently. In a recent interview with the New York Post , He showed how much he understood the importance of breaking into the American pop market and keeping his finger on the pulse of the youth of today by making a call that "Actually, yo»
Movies from video games are never good idea, are they?. I mean, look at the Super Mario Brothers movie ? Mortal Kombat? Well, director Paul W.S. Anderson seems to be a on a video game sci-fi / horror trip lately, having directed the self-same Mortal Kombat in 1995, as well as »
STREWTH! CRIKEY! Ever wanted to see a man dice with deadly animals on a daily basis , yet act totally unfazed by it all ? Ever watched “Animal Planet”? Welcome, to Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter TM and star of said TV show, whose so damn macho during this film its almost untru»
THE RETURN OF THE MOZ…..Part two The lesser spotted Steven Patrick Morrissey (aka Homo Miserabilus) returns to the music scene after a five year absence later this year. With a new single currently slated for September 9th , and a new album due on September 23rd, Morrissey returns for»
OASIS, Everyone's favourite Mancunian scallywags, will return to the UK before the end of the year, Drowned in Sound can reveal. The South Wales Echo reveals that they are set to play the Cardiff Millenium Stadium on December 14th, and the notorious rockers are close to signing contracts to play the ven»
The Sex Pistols, have landed Virgin FM into controversy..... through no fault of their own! In a complaint to the Radio Authority, Virgin Radio have been censured for playing their track (which was recently re-released) "God Save the Queen". Nothing in particular offensive about that, except that..»
Courrtney Love has sold on the rights for the diaries that Kurt Cobain kept for some $2.3 million dollars to Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam. That is, when she’s not being deeply embroiled in a court battle with Dave Grohl regarding the 100 or so hours worth of unreleased rehearsals and »
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a band that makes Ozzy Osbourne look like an amateur when it comes to commerical exploitation, KISS!!! KISS: the band that brought you babywear and band logo engraved Coffins (the KISS KASKET TM price: approx $3000) to be buried in... the band that virtua»
“Welcome to the New Pet Shop Boys!” hollers out Neil Tennant this evening. New doesn’t always mean improved, as New Coke - and tonight - both show. 10 years ago they were playing 3 night stints at Arenas*, now they’re playing to audiences a tenth of the size; but it’s not just commercial, but artistic, decline»
Watched too many horror movies as a kid? Scared of Zombies?? The Undead? Well, the undead are Live, and thats how Cradle of Filth make a new album: "Live Bait For The Dead", on their own imprint label AbraCadaver through Snapper Music. With one live CD, and a second of rare tracks, the 'Fil»
Pitchshifter, UK industrial-punk-nu-metal vets, follow their recent support slot to Bad Religion by hitting the road again to plug their latest album.
PSi will be supported by Newport rap-metallers The Kennedy Soundtrack.
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Belfast Limelight 20
Dublin Am»
THE WILDHEARTS, those veteran Brit rockers returned from the dead and led by Ginger, will return: with a single, a secret gig and a whole string of live dates, and a whole lot of attitude. (Not like you'd expect a lack of attitude from a band who once broke into a magazine's head office and then defe»
This notorious remake of the 1975 classic Rollerball was originally intended to hit cinema screens last summer. Numerous re-shoots, re-edits and re-thinks later, it finally arrives almost a year late. And was it worth the wait? Not really. The basic premise is that when Jonathon E (American Pie's Chris»
James may well have invented the Madchester scene – and when baggy bands like the Mondays and Northside faded into overdue obscurity, James kept on going. ... But then again, they’d been going for years at that point anyway. And come 1997, on the back of their 750,000+ selling “Best Of” compilation»
Legendary german krautrockers / techno innovators Kraftwerk have returned… But you’ll have to have a passport. Having virtually invented electro with their late 70’s / early 80’s albums such as 'Trans Europe Express', 'Man Machine' and 'Computer World' and being a huge influence on t»
