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Click here to listen to the show After making their triumphant return to the stage following a nine month absence on Liberation Day I caught up with Sark based five-piece The Recks to find out what they've been and to record a special acoustic session with them debuting four brand new songs for the May 2015... Continue Reading →
On the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May 2015 Leeds pop-rockers Eureka Machines brought their UK tour to The Fermain Tavern in Guernsey. Having built quite a reputation for their high energy, upbeat shows over the last few years their was a strong Guernsey contingent of fans on hand, along with some from... Continue Reading →
As always when I comes to Troma there are two ways of looking at their movies; the first is the way in which you approach any other film, but this would just lead to a review that entirely missed the point of the production, the other is, of course to go with it and get... Continue Reading →
"Through the darkness of future past The magican longs to see One chance out between two worlds: Fire walk with me" Before even embarking on Twin Peaks I had been warned that, despite it being a prequel (of sorts), Fire Walk With Me was best left until the end, and, before I go any further... Continue Reading →
After six films and 15 years I have finally reached the end of Peter Jackson’s 'Middle Earth Saga' with the third of his movies based on JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit; The Battle of the Five Armies. Certain things are to be expected by this stage in a series and, on many counts, this doesn’t disappoint. For two... Continue Reading →
Saturday 9th May in Guernsey saw the island celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Occupation during the Second World War. Along with the traditional cavalcade along the seafront and all sorts of other things the evening was given over to live music on the JT Rocks stage organised by Centre Stage. The... Continue Reading →
In the 25 years since its first broadcast Twin Peaks has become a genuinely cult television series with aficionados debating seemingly every second of the show to explore its hidden (or not so hidden) meanings and in that it has become hugely influential on a lot of TV (and general pop culture) that was to... Continue Reading →
The number of words written about the life (and more specifically the death) of Kurt Cobain are innumerable. Equally several documentaries have tried to explore both the young man from Aberdeen, Washington and the band he fronted (Nirvana, as if you didn’t know) in the years since 1994, but few have been in any way satisfactory.... Continue Reading →
On paper almost everything about Michael Reeve’s 1968 horror masterpiece, Witchfinder General, suggests a film that shouldn’t really work. Taking the style of Hammer, melding it with the incoming violence of ‘The New Hollywood’, casting an American as a notorious British historical icon and filming on location in East Anglia smacks of a production gone... Continue Reading →
