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So last night was Survivor Series and on a whim I actually stayed up and watched it. Now for those of you based in America that might seem a strange statement, but in the UK it means a long night. It is also probably the first time I have watched a WWE PPV live (that isn’t Wrestlemania) for a long time. Anyway, below is my thoughts of the whole show, it obviously contains spoilers, so if you haven’t watched it stay away and if you don’t like wrestling please don’t bother, it’s long.
Hacktivist are beginning to make a habit of coming to Electric Circus, with this being their second performance here within a year. Therefore, it’s kind of strange that tonight seems to actually see a smaller crowd come out for the Milton Keynes band. Although the lack of new material and the fact it’s a Wednesday night might have also played into that.
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Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner tells the story, perhaps unsurprisingly, of the life and career of J.M.W. Turner, the British painter, whom many consider as the man who elevated landscape painting to previously unseen heights. I should say from the outset that I have little knowledge of Turner, I could not tell you of his life and only know the most basic of facts about his body of work. However, I still went along to the film with great expectations. It has been critically praised and Timothy Spall took the prize for Best Actor at Cannes.
So Survivor Series is just around the corner and it may be one of the most one match Pay Per Views WWE has put on for a long time. Nearly all of WWE’s build has been focused on Team Cena vs Team Authority, with only Bray Wyatt and Dean Ambrose coming close to getting a similar level of attention (and they are a long way off in second). However, there is actually a whole under card happening as well and some of it could be alright, so here is what I expect to happen.
So Download announcement’s have started and as usual the internet is all excited. It’s become a worrying part of our festival culture, that the announcements now seem to actually get more hype than any of the bands themselves and personally I’d love Download to follow the model that Hellfest does, where it just released the majority of its bands in one go (check out that line up by the way!) That’s not what I’m going to discuss here however, but rather an interesting divide I have begun to see in festival announcement reactions. It’s one that to be honest confuses me and while this isn’t the first time I have noticed, it is becoming more and more common.
Last night I decided to jump on a bandwagon. That bandwagon was Insane Championship Wrestling, the Scottish wrestling promotion that just seems to be getting bigger and bigger. This was in part due to a BBC documentary they were featured in, but mainly down to the their strong roster of talent and the very YouTube friendly Scottish crowds. Last night they rolled into City Nightclub in Edinburgh, a place I never thought I would watch wrestling in, and put on an incredibly entertaining card. Rather than doing a full run down of it, I figured I’d just do a general opinions piece, which I hope is actually more interesting.
Black Veil Brides have been called a lot of things in their career. Widely derided for being all style no substance, the band have risen up to be the latest whipping boy of the heavy metal community due to a perceived notion that their over the top rock and roll is a bit shit, most of which people on the internet have probably decided because of how they look. The truth is that Black Veil Brides have never been as offensive as people like to believe they are. They play pretty simple rock and roll, inspired by the likes of Guns ‘N’ Roses, but instead of sex, drugs and rock and roll, they instead embrace being different and how being so doesn’t make you alone. Much like other bands who have embraced that message, My Chemical Romance being the most obvious recent example, it has led to them amassing a huge teen audience (something else people seem to think is a bad thing) and they look well on their way to being this generations gateway band into the world of rock and metal.
To switch to a completely different kind of game from yesterday’s Football Manager review, last night I finished South Park: The Stick of Truth. It’s another game that actually came out this year, so I am currently managing to stay very modern with my gaming choices. The game took quite a long time to come out, with its release date being delayed several times and its European release seeing some parts cut, due to their graphic nature. Of course, Trey Parker and Matt Stone responded to this in typical fashion, by instead inserting screens that apologised for the censorship, but go onto describe the scene anyway.
I’ve written in the past about my love of Football Manager, so unsurprisingly it didn’t take long for me to pick up the newest version when it was released last Friday. Now there is no denying FM is a hard game to review. Something the size of Football Manager can’t be fully explored, without putting many an hour into it, so to reference Total Biscuit, lets say this is more of a first impressions piece, than an actual review. In saying all that, according to Steam I have already put 27 hours into the game. Now I am always very skeptical of Steam’s internal clock, but I spent most of the weekend playing it and I’m into my second season on my ‘testing out the game’ Chelsea save.
In this review I am going to attempt to spoil as little as possible about Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, I’ve considered the ways to do this and in all honesty I think the simplest way is to avoid details of the plot entirely. I like to think I can still give an opinion on it without ever describing it in detail. Why? Because there are some films that it is better to go into without any knowledge at all and because Nolan himself is well known to like it that way and who am I to argue.
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