Sparks – MAD! Review
In my review of Sparks’ previous album The Girl is Crying in Her Latte, I expressed the fervent hope that this was not the last we would see of the band. What kind of a fool was I to even … Continue reading Sparks – MAD! Review
In my review of Sparks’ previous album The Girl is Crying in Her Latte, I expressed the fervent hope that this was not the last we would see of the band. What kind of a fool was I to even … Continue reading Sparks – MAD! Review
The route to MB3 (not a motorway, for those new to the game) is a circuitous one. After 17 years out of the music business, Miki Berenyi returned in 2016 as the singer and guitarist of Lush, the cult shoegaze/dreampop/whatever … Continue reading Miki Berenyi Trio – Tripla: Review
Hot on the heels of their previous album (well, warm on the heels – Luminous was released just over a year ago) Guinness World Record* holding Japanese band SCANDAL have released the four track EP Love, Spark, Joy! containing three … Continue reading SCANDAL – Love, Spark, Joy! EP: Review
The August 1938 issue of the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction featured a short story which initially seemed unremarkable, but which has gone on to be one of the seminal works of American science fiction. Who Goes There? was credited … Continue reading Keep Watching the Skies! The Thing from Another World (1951)
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! The latest Blu-Ray boxed set from Doctor Who – The Collection is Season 7, not only the first season of episodes to feature the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, but also the first season to be screened … Continue reading How Many Beans Make Five? Doctor Who – The Collection Season 7: Review
I have vague memories of watching Let It Be on television in my childhood, as part of a season of Beatles films shown on BBC2 in the early evening. With a little help from my friends (pun partly intended), I’ve … Continue reading The Beatles – Get Back: Review
These celebrity Doctor Who novels are interesting. Sure, we all know that they are written with the assistance of an established novelist (in this case Jac Rayner) but you can always feel something of the performer coming through in the … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – The Ruby’s Curse’ by Alex Kingston: Review
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