Archive for October, 2007
Alan Lee – Goal Machine
Alan Lee – the man who puts the ‘beautiful’ into the beautiful game.
Okay, so he’s not quite got the body of Cristiano Ronaldo, but he has been scoring a lot of quality goals of late. In Saturday’s game against Wolves the Lee-meister put Town ahead with an amazing effort which he curled around the [...]
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Tags: alan lee, football, football championship, ipswich
PES 2008 – the best yet?
Two days to go before the latest incarnation of Pro Evolution Soccer hits the shelves. For me, last year’s PES 6 was a bit of a disappointment – a little too fast, a little too arcade-like. I’m hoping for better this time around.
PES mark 7, or PES 2008 as it will be known, promises the [...]
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Tags: football, playstation, pro evolution soccer
Potential England Manager?
Could this be chap be the next England manager?
- Has managed in three international tournaments, losing only two matches in normal time and reaching the quarter finals on all three occasions
- He improved his side’s FIFA ranking from 17th in 2001 to 5th in 2006
- His team were the only international side qualify and [...]
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Tags: england, football, football association, sven goran eriksson
There are many reasons to hate Hard-Fi, from Richard Archer’s mock chav sneer to a lyrical subtly that would make Liam Gallagher proud. But don’t let this distract from the fact that Staines finest are one of the better bands you’ll hear on the radio in 2007.
Debut ‘Stars of CCTV’ was a more than solid [...]
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Tags: album, hard-fi, indie, liam gallagher, mark 'spike' stent, once upon a time in the west, richard archer, staines, stars of cctv
Afterburner Tour Diary – Part 3
The third part of my Afterburner tour diary. Parts 1 and 2 can be found here and here:
By the time we got back to Rich’s house in Coventry it was just gone midnight. We quickly unloaded the van, parked it up and went off to play some pool with Rich’s housemates.
Unfortunately in our haste we [...]
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Tags: afterburner, cambridge, leicester, live music, pubs, the boathouse, the firebug
Top Gear, Top Television
After virtually a year’s break, Top Gear returned to our screens in brilliant style last week – super super-cars, some brilliant scenery and some very funny gags. Considering the current format of the programme is now in its tenth series, it still seems remarkably fresh.
Inevitably Top Gear is ‘love it or loath it’ television of [...]
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Tags: bbc, cars, james may, richard hammond, top gear, tv
Hamilton on the Brink
After sixteen rounds of the probably the most dramatic Formula 1 World Championship in recent history it now all comes down to one race in Brazil.
Lewis Hamilton almost had the title in the bag at yesterday’s Chinese Grand Prix, but managed to notch up his first DNF of the season at the worst possible [...]
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Tags: fernando alonso, formula one, kimi raikkonen, lewis hamilton
Afterburner Tour Diary – Part 2
The second part of my Afterburner tour diary. Part 1 can be found here:
Following the gig in Cambridge we had a couple of days in which to continue working on the set before our next outing at the Sunflower Lounge in Birmingham. We spent Monday back in the church, playing around with a few possible [...]
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Tags: afterburner, birmingham, coventry, live music, pubs, sunflower lounge
Stereophonics – It Means Nothing
I used to love the ‘Phonics. Word Gets Around and Performance and Cocktails are two of my favourite albums ever. However since then much of what they have produced has been rubbish.
Next month the band release their sixth studio album Pull The Pin, with lead single It Means Nothing, yet another middle of the road [...]
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Tags: album, indie, kelly jones, stereophonics
Afterburner Tour Diary – Part 1
I’m in a band. Last month, we went on a mini-tour of the UK. Here’s what happened:
The tour kicked off at the Man on the Moon pub in Cambridge on September the 16th, and given that we had only spent two hours practicing as a band since putting our instruments down at our last gig [...]
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Tags: afterburner, cambridge, live music, man on the moon, pubs
