There are two types of cult following for bands: the Cool Cult, that most people won’t have heard of but the wearing of whose t-shirt will get you an appreciative nod from the girl behind the counter in the record … Continue reading The Sparks Brothers: Review
In the early 1980s, I had drifted somewhat from the true faith of the superhero, lured by the bright lights and flashy visuals of big screen science fiction. But I could never stay away for too long and Marvel UK … Continue reading My Superheroes – The Eighties
Kids – don’t take this badly, but almost none of the superheroes you enjoy today were invented for you. That’s okay, because they weren’t invented for me either. I was born in 1970 and by the time I got interested … Continue reading My Superheroes – The Seventies
Piroshka were formed in 2018 by former Lush frontwoman Miki Berenyi, her partner K.J. ‘Moose’ McKillop, Justin Welsh from Elastica and Michael Conroy from Modern English and this is their second studio album after 2018’s Brickbat. Staunchly refuting the label … Continue reading Piroshka – Love Drips and Gathers: Review
With the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine focusing on features about the various Doctor Who exhibitions of yesteryear, I thought this might be a good opportunity to reprint this feature from Strange Skins #5 in which our crazed correspondent … Continue reading ‘Fear & Loathing in Lytham St Annes’ by Claire ‘Moth’ Harris (née White)
Warning: contains spoilers. This movie has been a long time coming. So long in fact that the proposed first female-led superhero movie of the modern era has been easily overtaken by DCU’s Wonder Woman (et seq) and MCU’s own Captain … Continue reading Black Widow: Review
Warning: contains spoilers! You’ll probably read a lot of reviews which state that the latest Disney+ MCU series Loki is like David Tennant era Doctor Who. It really isn’t. I mean, I can see where the similarities are drawn; Loki … Continue reading Loki: Season 1 Review
*The album, not the band (but yes, also the band). There is a classic rock ‘n’ roll anecdote surrounding the release of the Electric Light Orchestra’s eponymous first album and like most stories of this nature, it’s only probably true. … Continue reading Still No Answer: 50 Years of Electric Light Orchestra*
This feature is a companion piece to not only my reviews of Doctor Who Season 24 and Season 26, but also my earlier feature about the curious little renaissance the series enjoyed in the late ‘80s. In it, I shall … Continue reading Doctor Who Season 27: A Missed Opportunity?
It’s an odd feeling when something that you lived through becomes the stuff of legends. I see essays online, written with great authority by fans that weren’t even born at the time, extolling the virtues of the Season 24 as … Continue reading There’s Many a Slap Twixt the Cup and the Lap: Doctor Who Season 24 Blu-Ray Review
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