Archive for April, 2007
Idlewild – Make Another World
As has been much documented, Idlewild are a band who find themselves spilt between two quite different sets of fans. Much like the Manic Street Preachers, whose early work appealed to a very different audience from their later output, Idlewild seem caught between their indie roots and their mainstream aspirations. In 2002 they released the [...]
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Tags: album, idlewild, indie
Given that we have almost reached the end of the season and the Town ‘Player of the Year’ (Sylvain Legwinski) was announced last week, it seemed like a good time to write up my players reviews for 2006-2007. Obviously this season has not been a classic for the Town and I think the sheer number [...]
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Tags: football championship, ipswich
Save Milton Country Park
About fifteen years ago a gravel pit near to where I live in north Cambridge was redeveloped into a country park for the local community. Situated right next to the A14 and the Cambridge sewage works, Milton Country Park didn’t seem to have a lot going for it. Yet over the years I’ve visited the [...]
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Tags: milton country park
Leamington’s Burning
There are some things that you simply do not expect to see when you get woken up at one-thirty in the morning. There I was, sound asleep, when I hear my housemate Dave calling me to come and take a look outside. Blearily I make my way to the window to be greeted by the [...]
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Tags: fire, leamington
Congratulations Histon FC
On Saturday my local side Histon FC were promoted to the Conference National, the highest level of non-league football. This may not sound like much, but given that the team were playing their football in the Eastern Counties league as recently as 1999, it is actually quite some achievement. As the fans like to sing, [...]
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Tags: conference national, conference south, football, glassworld stadium, histon fc, steve fallon
52 Week CD Challenge – March
Went to the Leamington record fair at the beginning of the month and picked up these four beauties:
Week 10 – Boy Kill Boy – Civilian (2006)
With Civilian Boy Kill Boy have rather cannily merged the Killers synth-pop with indie-disco to create a sound that is simultaneously in vogue and melodic. Unfortunately it seems that Boy [...]
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Tags: album, boy kill boy, charlatans, indie, lightning seeds, ride
The Queen
Given all the hype I was unsure what to expect when sitting down to watch Stephen Frear’s The Queen last night. Given Frears’s previous work the temptation was to imagine a fiercely negative, thoroughly depressing view of the British establishment, and yet the commercial success of the film suggested that this would not be the [...]
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Tags: film, helen mirren, stephen frears, the queen, tony blair
Heard this for the first time the other day. It’s the lead single from the Manics upcoming album Send Away The Tigers which is out in May. I haven’t really had a chance to get into the track yet, but it certainly has the makings of a decent Manics tune – strings, guitar solos, big [...]
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Tags: indie, manic street preachers
Just found this on the web. It’s a new series made by Aardman Animations for the BBC based on the Wallace and Gromit character Shaun the Sheep. There is no direct input from Nick Park however, as always with Aardman, the attention to detail is amazing. It’s actually quite funny as well which is quite [...]
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Tags: aardman, bbc, nick park, shaun the sheep, tv, wallace and gromit
FA Cup Rights (And Wrongs)
Have the FA made the right move by selling out to the highest bidder? By switching FA Cup and England international coverage from BBC and Sky to ITV and Setanta the FA will make itself an extra £125m over four years, a 42% increase on the current deal. All well and good on the face [...]
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Tags: bbc, bskyb, fa cup, football, football association, itv, setanta, tv
