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🎄 FESTIVE REVIEW 🎄 It's A Wonderful Life Reappraising a Christmas classic, because every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.

I went to a special cinema screening of It’s A Wonderful Life earlier this month, and for the first real time I felt like I actually watched it properly. Here’s what I discovered.

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🎞️ FILM REVIEW 🎞️ Eddington Your being manipulated

I finally got to see Ari Aster's COVID Western Eddington this week. I was surprised but not disappointed. Check out my review.

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🎧 LIVE REVIEWS 🎸 Guys Called Gerald and Hamilton Dispatches from a skeptical techno explorer, and worshipping at the altar of indie

This week I saw two wildly different musical performances over two consecutive nights, so you’re getting two reviews for the price of one.

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🧠 OPINION 🧠 If the music industry needs consumers to survive, it has to meet us halfway Streaming has done untold damage to the music business, but what are we to do when physical media is becoming increasingly unaffordable?

In recent years I have got back into collecting physical media, but the surging price of vinyl is making me fall out of love with it again. It’s no wonder everybody uses Spotify when the alternative is so unaffordable. Something has to change.

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🎸 LIVE REVIEW 🎸 YHWH Nailgun The Brooklyn four-piece bring their visceral vibrations to Berlin

Last night I saw YHWH Nailgun - an extraordinary band - live in Berlin. Their debut album 45 Pounds is good, but their live act is something else entirely. Read my review…

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The 🔟 films of Paul Thomas Anderson ranked in order of greatness Where does One Battle After Another sit in the impossible list?

With One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson has now made 10 brilliant feature films. But where does his newest one sit among his filmography so far? In my new Substack post, I have attempted to rank his 10 films from least to most brilliant.

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The 🔟 films of Paul Thomas Anderson ranked in order of greatness Where does One Battle After Another sit in the impossible list?

With One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson has now made 10 brilliant feature films. But where does his newest one sit among his filmography so far? In my new Substack post, I have attempted to rank his 10 films from least to most brilliant.

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🎞️ FILM REVIEW 🎞️ One Battle After Another The revolution will be cinema

I saw One Battle After Another last night. It’s the film of the year, if not the decade, and it reinforced my view that Paul Thomas Anderson is our greatest living filmmaker. Read my review.

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📺 TV REVIEW 📺 Long Story Short The creator of BoJack Horseman takes the animated family sitcom in a brilliant new direction

This week I have written about Long Story Short - a Netflix show which really charmed me this summer - and where this ‘sadcom’ sits in the pantheon of adult animated comedy.

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📺 TV REVIEW 📺 Long Story Short The creator of BoJack Horseman takes the animated family sitcom in a brilliant new direction

This week I have written about Long Story Short - a Netflix show which really charmed me this summer - and where this ‘sadcom’ sits in the pantheon of adult animated comedy.

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💿 RECORD REVIEW 💿 Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway Strap in for a long-read on a fascinating artist who's still going strong after almost 60 years

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Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway

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💿 RECORD REVIEW 💿 Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway Strap in for a long-read on a fascinating artist who's still going strong after almost 60 years

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Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway

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Voices for Gaza - Band on the Wall A fundraising concert featuring Reem Anbar + Gazelleband + Indian Pale Male + Ríoghnach Connolly & […]

Indian Pale Male play the Voices for Gaza fundraising concert featuring Reem Anbar + Gazelleband, Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davies + Ramsey Janini/رمزي جعنيني and special guests on Thursday 28 August at Band on the Wall, Manchester.

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Rule Based Order - Indian Pale Male (Live at Carlton Club)
Rule Based Order - Indian Pale Male (Live at Carlton Club) YouTube video by Indian Pale Male

Watch Indian Pale Male’s performance of ‘Rule Based Order’ live at Manchester’s Carlton Club here…

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The barbarians are at the gate Nathan McIlroy presents the Indian Pale Male song 'Rule Based Order' - a lament to the daily atrocities committed in Gaza, perpetuated by a complicit media and a Cult of Greed and Self-Interest

Important piece of writing from Nathan McIlroy (Indian Pale Male) on the daily atrocities committed in Gaza, perpetuated by a complicit media and a Cult of Greed and Self-Interest...

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🎞️ FILM REVIEW 🎞️ 28 Years Later With almost 60 years of history behind it, does the zombie genre still have something resembling a pulse?

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28 Years Later

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🎸 LIVE REVIEW 🎸 Morrissey Just when I thought I was out, he pulls me back in...

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Morrissey

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📖 BOOK REVIEW 📖 MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!

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MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band

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That's how it starts What to expect from Totally Wired

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