Pulled Apart By Horses

This is what I went to see last night. Stunning live band. Check them out. Review written for OxfordBands.com.
Some gigs are just ill-starred from the outset. The trick is to pull them around so you remember them for the right reasons.
Tonight is a prime example – first, the show underwent an enforced last-minute move from [...]

How to organise a music festival – update

The more observant among you may have noticed that a) I have not posted in a few days, and b) I haven’t updated on the music festival we’re organising for a good while. The two facts are not unconnected.
So about two weeks ago, we finally confirmed the lineup for the show on 15 November, which [...]

Doing your first gig

Well, my new band, From Light To Sound, played our first ever gig this weekend, so I thought I’d post a belated reflection on what that was like and how it went. I also play in Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, and have played in The Evenings, so it was far from my first gig of all [...]

Review: Days of Darkness

Ah zombies, how I love the myriad ways in which you are foisted upon us by filmmakers big and small. Whether it’s Romero’s mysterious plague of walking dead or Danny Boyle’s fleet-footed angry slaverers, you come at us from radiation, gas leaks, military experiments gone wrong and voodoo magic. Though you may lack the élan of the more stylish undead at the vampire-end of the spectrum, I have to admire your resourcefulness. In Days of Darkness, the zombies are caused by parasitic aliens dropped by a passing comet, who replace our genitals with little wriggly pink aliens and make us develop that urge for a late-night, all-you-can-eat brains diner.

Blog Action Day – 104 hungry people for every blog reader

So today is Blog Action Day, and according to the site’s conservative estimates, around 9.3 million people is the total readership for today’s blog posts about poverty. Yet at the same time, Oxfam highlights the fact that 967 million people are currently going hungry worldwide, boosted to that figure by an extra 119 million people [...]