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by John Murphy
Last night, I wrote a review of the new McFly single, The Heart Never Lies. Have a read. I wasn’t that impressed with the single,…
by Jon Ingold
Now that Resident Evil has achieved trilogy-DVD-boxset status, despite being rubbish from start to finish, a new video-game franchise is stepping up to try out...
by Jon Ingold
I might think he’s a gratuitous talentless child of a director, obsessed by the most trivial of splattery visuals but there are plenty of people...
by Michael Hubbard
“Social networking sites.” MySpace, Facebook, Bebo in standard parlance. Do you use them? According to the mainstream media peeps, Facebook is taking over the universe....
by John Murphy
Cat Power is to release her second album of cover versions in January. Which got me thinking that old favourite – what’s your favourite cover...
by Jon Ingold
The London Film Festival starts in two days, so it’s getting to crunch time for deciding which tickets to book. Things are, unsurprisingly, already selling...
by Jon Ingold
Some say his work is profound, beautiful, capturing deep ripples of meaning and understanding in the very fabric of the celluloid. Others say it’s incoherent...
by Michael Hubbard
According to The Times, Madonna is to walk away from Warner and jump into bed with gig promoters Live Nation instead in a deal reputedly...
by Simon Thomas
Well, I don’t think I’ll ever do that but, now that Covent Garden’s first cycle has ended, I thought I’d give a personal assessment of...
by John Murphy
This week, the Q Awards took place, amazing us with revelations such as Amy Winehouse is pretty good, the Arctic Monkeys are ‘the best act...
by John Murphy
Music fans, like football fans, are forever bemoaning the ‘way things used to be’. Football fans look back on days when burly 15 stone gents...
by Jon Ingold
"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…" Word just in for fans of the classic, never-quite-done-yet science fiction noir-thriller Blade Runner is that Ridley Scott’s...
by Simon Thomas
Last week I saw Fragments at the Young Vic, a programme of short Beckett pieces directed by Peter Brook. In Rockaby Beckett specifies one thing...
by Michael Hubbard
With five star reviews almost across the board, the Ian Curtis biopic Control is even being talked about in certain circles as film of the...
by Michael Hubbard
So Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, will be available as a download at a price specified by anyone downloading it. As their website says, “No...
by Jamil Ahmad
Benicassim 2006, with 30,000 festival goers taking in everyone from Morrissey to Scissor Sisters, runs from 20-24 July. musicOMH will be ambling around between the...