"We met a crazed speed garage afficianado from Northampton, who advised us not to buy a double gin and Red Bull (and not because of the taste), and told the most uninteresting interesting anecdote about the Astoria. It’s a bit scary to get stuck talking to somebody like that, but looking back it means that I’ll remember the Breeders gig as the gig with the nutter. It fits."Steve Miller remembers the Breeders gig with his far more succinct (and possibly far more accurate) account of the evening here.
So here I am, and there I was - enjoying a sticky-floored Sunday evening at Birmingham's bijou Academy 2. I was there to see The Breeders and it was all thanks to my friend - macaroon chomping Friend-of-Garfield Jez Higgins - who generously gave me the ticket that he bought just seconds before he realised the gig clashed with his Wedding Anniversary. These things happen, and lucky for me they do. Thanks for the ticket, Jez and Nat. Hope you had a Happy Anniversary.I got to the venue fairly late as I'd spent most of the day recovering from the [...]
Well, I didn't manage to catch the Jaws night at The Electric, but I did venture out to the picture palace twice in the last week.The Guillermo Del Toro produced, Juan Antonia Bayona helmed The Orphanage was rather good. More of a good old-fashioned ghost story than an out-and-out horror pic (despite one visceral scene that was a pure, popcorn-into-the-back-of-head-in-front shocker), it reminded me a bit of The Others. Haunting, atmospheric and melancholic-in-a-good-way, but - in my humble opinion - not really deserving the comparisons to Del Toro's sublime masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth.The other film was In Bruges, which was tremendous [...]
