Archive for January, 2007
Publicity Machine
Today was the start of RaW’s (University of Warwick Student Radio) annual monthly broadcast on FM. For the other eleven months of the year we reach campus via our 1251AM frequency and the rest of the world via the web. However for one month each year we broadcast to Coventry, Kenilworth and beyond (as the [...]
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Tags: coventry, radio, warwick university
Aston Martin V8 Vantage Coupe
Surely this (I’m talking about the one on the left!) is the most beautiful car ever made? I’d like to say it’s the best car ever made, however given that I have never driven one that would probably be a bit presumptuous. Nevertheless from an aesthetic point of view it is simply astonishing. In my [...]
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Tags: aston martin, bond, cars, film
The Green Man – Leamington Spa
Those of you lucky enough to ever visit the southern part of Royal Leamington Spa (the bit where all the Warwick students live) will sympathise with me when I say that, generally speaking, the quality of public houses in the area is not great.
Fortunately there is one really decent pub in South Leamington; The [...]
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Tags: brunswick street, doctor doolittle, leamington, pubs, the green man
Thunderbirds Are Go!
In a period of slight boredom over Christmas I found myself reduced to watching some old ‘Thunderbirds’ episodes recorded off the TV from when I was a kid. Unfortunately my collection only stretched to three different shows, but it was still an enjoyable throwback.
. Nevertheless watching the shows back for the first time in about [...]
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Tags: gerry anderson, international rescue, jeff tracey, scott tracey, thunderbird one, thunderbirds, tracey island, virgil tracey
Okay, so I may have indulged in a little journalistic hyperbole, ‘Sam’s Town’ is clearly not the worst album of the year, however relative to my expectations The Killers latest output is a major disappointment.
With the release of ‘Sam’s Town’ all we wanted was another ‘Hot Fuss’; what we got is an album that [...]
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Tags: album, brandon flowers, hot fuss, indie, sam's town, the killers, when you were young
