A Look at Music Venues Via Ginger Wildheart

Sometimes I sit down to write a review and realise that there is probably not much point.  Today was one of those days.  On Sunday night I went to see Ginger Wildheart in Glasgow and had a rather fantastic night.  However, me writing about how awesome Ginger is seems a bit pointless.  If you wish to know my opinion on the man and his music you can find it here, here and here, as well as a few other places if you want to delve a bit deeper.  I’m a huge Ginger fan and therefore repeating myself is now going to be that interesting.  Of course it was awesome, he’s always awesome.

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The Babadook

 

Horror in 2014 is a strange genre.  Modern films seem to fall into two categories.  Every now and then you get something smart and interesting, for example the great You’re Next, which took traditional horror tropes and twisted them in a dark and amusing way.  However, more often than not we are left by Paranormal Activity inspired cattle-prod cinema.  Horror movies that rely mainly on the idea of being quiet for a while, before making the audience jump with a big bang.  Into this fray now enters The Babadook, a movie written and directed by the possibly twisted mind of Jennifer Kent.

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Playing the Blues

If you ask most people to describe what they consider the standard blues guitarist, they would probably go down the old, craggy man route.  Someone who can damn well play, but is not exactly one of the hip young people the modern music world seem to have such an obsession with.  However, if you dig below the surface, times are a changing and two albums I’ve checked out in the last week or so, are the perfect proof of that.

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The Book of Life

It’s been a mixed year for animated films.  On one hand we have had the brilliant Lego Movie and the wonderfully dirty Box Trolls.  On the other hand, there has been a lot of crap.  Films like The Postman Pat movie seemed to fail on nearly every level.  The latest fighter to enter the fray is The Book of Life, a film, which at least on paper due to the involvement (as a producer) of Guillermo Del Toro, looks set to be a prize fighter.

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’71

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Any listeners to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s weekly film show, Wittertainment as it has affectionately become known, will be aware of a long running joke about films that aren’t actually about what they appear to be about.  The classic example of this, at least in Mark Kermode’s opinion, is Jaws, which he proclaims is not about the shark, but actually about infidelity.  The most recent addition to this ‘genre’ is ’71, a film set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, but which despite this, is really not about the Troubles themselves.

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The Other Band

Side projects and supergroups are nothing new in the world of rock and roll.  Whether it be Velvet Revolver or Them Crooked Vultures, we have seen a fair few of them over the years and it doesn’t seem like a trend that is likely to stop anytime soon.  Yet, the sad fact is, a lot of these bands tend to be a bit crap.  For every great release there is a lot of Rock Star Supernova and quite frankly we could all use a bit less of that.  So what makes a good side project or a great super group?  How do bands like Down, go from being on the sidelines, to being the main concern for many of their members.

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Slash – World on Fire

Introducing Slash feels a bit pointless.  If you don’t know who the top hat wearing guitarist is, then you are probably on the wrong blog.  He’s recently released his third solo album, at least his third solo album that just goes under the name, Slash, once again teaming up with Myles Kennedy and  The Conspirators, to give us, World on Fire.

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