Reviews
20 June 2013
Biddulph ladies choir the Kingsfield Singers entertained at a recent open day at Bethesda Chapel, Hanley.The event was held to sho...
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20 June 2013
If I had to choose one word to describe Priscilla Queen of the Desert it would be camptastic.I know it’s not a real word but...
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20 June 2013
For a festival that has vastly upgraded in size and the level of hype it creates, it was appropriate that last Saturday and last S...
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13 June 2013
As far as we know nothing to do with Kieran Hebden’s Four Tet, Kairos 4tet is the vehicle for jazz saxophonist Adam Waldmann...
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13 June 2013
Little Boots was trendy a couple of years back then disappeared, and on this album you can see why: it’s a bit lightweight, ...
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13 June 2013
Talking of a disco revival, here’s where it all starts. If in a couple of months you’re hearing Anita Ward’s Rin...
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13 June 2013
Mr Harvey is a former Bad Seed and while he’s now parted company with Nick Cave, this album sorely needs Cave’s growli...
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13 June 2013
Stooshe are the new Spice Girls, singing gutsy soul instead of bland pop. In fact, the band themselves are the anti-Spice girls: l...
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13 June 2013
“Who knows where the time goes?” The immortal words of the immortal Sandy Denny, and words which are so appropriate wh...
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30 May 2013
Stars: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney PollackAlthough released in 2008 to critical acclaim, a limited cinema...
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30 May 2013
Stars: Jason Statham, Jennifer LopezBased on the 19th Parker novel by Donald Westlake (aka Richard Stark), Parker (Jason Statham, ...
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30 May 2013
Stars: Bruce Willis, Jai CourtneyApparently, the most memorable lines in movie history are: “I’ll be back” ...
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30 May 2013
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma ArtertonOK: the title should tell you everything you need to know, but here we go anyway.
Mysteriousl...
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30 May 2013
Stars: Mike TysonOriginally released in 2008 and recently re-issued, Tyson features archival footage from the famed (and infamous)...
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30 May 2013
We like this, and not only for the title, which is currently meteorogically accurate, but for its humorous nod to bad rhyming and ...
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30 May 2013
Information on This Morning Call is hard to come by: there’s precious little on the interweb and we lost the Press notes. Bu...
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30 May 2013
Oh, you lovers of digital music! How you miss out. Your soulless MP3s might fit neatly into a little plastic box that has a pictur...
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30 May 2013
Some years ago the Review Corner was driving down the Pacific Coast Highway that follows the winding coastline of California. We f...
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23 May 2013
Another good album, this is well above average, and its retro pop sound make us feel nostalgically happy for no reason at al...
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23 May 2013
When this first came out last year, we nearly made it album of the week but figured it would be a hit without the mighty rec...
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23 May 2013
Laurie loves the blues and medically speaking, prone to depression as he is, he suffers from the blues. The trouble is he just ain...
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23 May 2013
Reviewed this a few weeks ago but it’s out now: the coolest dude in pop is back with covers of his favourite covers.
This i...
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23 May 2013
Dreamy folk rockers Lord Huron are on tour promoting their excellent album Lonesome Dreams and play tonight (Thursday) at Manchest...
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23 May 2013
Adam French
Like Everybody Does EP
Listen up people! You know how you read newspaper features on bands who got big, which talk a...
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23 May 2013
The Company You Keep
Stars: Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Shia LeBeoufJim Grant (Robert Redford) seems a perfect and upstanding...
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16 May 2013
Two Scots, and Englishman and a whole stage full of instruments from fiddles and guitars to electronic machines which go bleep as ...
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16 May 2013
Guilt TripStarring: Barbara Streisand, Seth RoganSince 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbara Streisand has only appeared ...
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16 May 2013
There was near-capacity audience a concert by Wetley Rocks Male Voice Choir and Endon Community Choir at Trinity Church Leek on Sa...
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16 May 2013
A good-sized audience was treated to a “superb” concert at Biddulph Arms last Wednesday as leading contemporary folk s...
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16 May 2013
Three former Cheshire Poets Laureate gave readings in Congleton Library on Friday. A sizeable audience was amused and enterta...
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16 May 2013
Didn’t the bloke from The Flying Pickets just die? (Pause for research on Wikipedia).
Yes. As we were saying, the last time...
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16 May 2013
Talking of soulful voices, the Bubble’s got a new one out. We always like listening to Bublé albums, even though we never pl...
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16 May 2013
Is it just us? We never realised Anka wrote the lyric for My Way, using an existing tune. Cool. Makes up for being slightly malign...
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16 May 2013
Talking of A&A and easy listening, The Shocking Miss Emerald is apparently selling like hot cakes. It’s the latest studi...
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16 May 2013
The coolest album of the week, this is a series of tracks that are either for remixing into dance floor anthems or for playing lou...
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16 May 2013
Formed in 2010, Manchester three-piece Black Market’s debut album sees material that has been in gestation for some time. Ho...
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16 May 2013
An acoustic trio that is set to place that small island in the Irish Sea securely on the folk map, Barrule (or Baarool in the Manx...
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16 May 2013
Atlas Genius
Symptoms
This is out ahead of a new album; Australian duo Atlas Genius are already selling well in the States. They...
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09 May 2013
Ah, our two favourite subjects at school, chemistry and blood. We’re making this album of the week because we think Arcane R...
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09 May 2013
Martin has made lots of not-very-good movies in recent years and now we know why: he should have been writing songs with Edie Bric...
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09 May 2013
On New Killer Shoes’ website they claim to be “an energetic grit-pop band”, playing music that’s “a ...
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09 May 2013
Device is the new band from David Draiman, he of Disturbed, though it’s a moot point about whether Disturbed were anything w...
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09 May 2013
In an alternate universe, James Blunt hasn’t had that massive hit, isn’t cheesy and instead writes cool tunes about lo...
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09 May 2013
Roaring laughter echoed around the Daneside Theatre last week during Congleton Players’ production of Dad’s Army.The c...
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09 May 2013
To be brief (it’s been said my reviews are too long — like many of the films I watch!): young (jolly attractive) woman...
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09 May 2013
In the future, the Earth has been almost totally assimilated by alien “souls” who are infused into the bodies of captu...
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09 May 2013
In his first lead role since 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger – free to return to “acting” since retiring from the po...
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09 May 2013
Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is a (very) single high school English teacher, passionate about her job, but living a simple love...
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09 May 2013
From his first full feature —Sex, Lies and Videotape in 1989 —director Steven Soderbergh has been one of Hollywood&rsq...
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02 May 2013
The 11th studio album from American prog rockers Spock’s Beard is a milestone for several reasons. Like many of their peers ...
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02 May 2013
Although many say Queen died with Freddie Mercury (including bassist Roger Deacon), guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor s...
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02 May 2013
Arcane Roots, whose mini-album Left Fire is much-played in the Review Corner, are on tour promoting their full debut album Blood A...
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02 May 2013
US band The Sidekicks are on tour promoting their latest album Awkward Breeds....
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02 May 2013
There’s nothing this week that leaps out as outstanding, a damning-by-faint praise approach that lands Rubylux our coveted a...
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02 May 2013
Ghostpoet is one of those Mercury shortlist artists who the critics love but who probably don’t sell many copies. As far as ...
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02 May 2013
Astpai are punks from Austria, though they sing in English (and very good English it is, too). They’re basic heads down punk...
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02 May 2013
This isn’t out until June but we’ve been listening to it this week so here you go. In a nutshell — and they aske...
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25 April 2013
We’ve been enjoying this, partly because it brings back memories and partly because, well, it’s good. And because it r...
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25 April 2013
We reviewed this a couple of weeks ago, but it’s out now on 6th May.
Don’t judge Spin Doctors by hits such as Two Pri...
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25 April 2013
On the basis of this, Billy is the coolest man who ever lived. He was pretty cool back in the day, and we can’t have b...
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25 April 2013
This suffered in coming the same week as Andy T, the angry punk poet (see above). His album is punk, pure and simple; this is a co...
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25 April 2013
Lewis Watson The WildWatson is part of the wave of young singer-songwriters such as Benjamin Francis Leftwich (saw him live, a bit...
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25 April 2013
Lady Antebellum’s rise has been meteoric since forming in 2006, with their debut album shipping platinum in the USA alone an...
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