NOT A MERRY DANCE – Gretchen Peters’ new album is dark, but devilishly good……
At times not the cheeriest listen, ‘Dancing With The Beast’ is never anything but utterly compelling.
RANTS & REFLECTIONS
MEMORIES THAT DON’T F-F-F-FADE AWAY – THE WHO triumph at Charlton
CHARLTON 31/5/76: The next day I awarded each song played a mark out of 10. ‘Amazing Journey’ must have been astounding; I gave it 12.
REFUSAL TO COWER – Funny Cow says it in Black and White
It is not too much of a leap making the assumption FUNNY COW (director Adrian Shergold, 102 minutes) is based loosely on the rise to fame of 70s singer and comedienne Marti Caine. That said the film is far from comic, often unrelentingly…
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ALIGN WITH ME – A personal take on the FA Cup Final……………
For the next few years I never queried anything my Dad said football. How could I? He’d been to the FA Cup Final. Twice.
EXCITABLE JOY – The genius that was WARREN ZEVON
This is not the Los Angeles of ‘life in the fast lane’ decadence, the songwriting of Zevon closer to novelist James Ellroy than Joe Walsh…
THE SULTAN OF SWING – Sinatra beats all with ‘Songs For Swingin’ Lovers.’
The theory being before ‘Songs For Swingin’ Lovers’ Americans spoke English – but after it they spoke American.
BECKING ORDER: Jeff Beck Documentary – Still On The Run (review)
‘An array of admiring luminaries voice their respect for Beck – each naming him the most innovative guitar player of the age.’
RIGHT MOVES – BOB SEGER Enters Platinum Selling Land
Like many ‘Best Of’ sets, ‘Bob Seger’s Greatest Hits’ is not a definitive collection of his finest work, sales no yardstick for accomplishment.
SPUD YOU (MAY) LIKE – The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society (review)
If there was an award for the most unusual film title of the year THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (dir Mike Newell, 124 mins) would definitely be in the running. That said it is the only one it is…
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I, TONYA – The Life and Crime of Tonya Harding
Trying to categorize I Tonya (119 mins, director Craig Gillespie) is rather like attempting to judge the main character of the piece, figure skater Tonya Harding – whose role in the infamous attack on skating rival Nancy Kerrigan prior to the United States naming…
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