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November 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Jeff Beck Group: Twilight of the Idols
The Jeff Beck Group Twilight of the Idols: Classic Broadcasts From San Francisco and London – 1967-1968 Code 7 – Shockwaves Here in one place – and with mostly very reasonable sound quality – is a set of BBC Sessions and some live radio broadcasts from the Fillmore West in San Francisco; charting the early […]Archive
October 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 228
Ennio Morricone, Chi Mai (1981) Here’s the thing with being a dirty, rotten, grubby record-collector, particularly one that sets absurd life-goals like finding everything or at the least anything by Ennio Morricone – you are gonna go into a lot of junk-stores and leave with nothing but a lingering trace of your own shame-spiral. You […]Archive
June 26, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Fried: DVD
Fried Director: Luke Snellin Accorn/RLJ/Zodiak BBC Three sitcom Fried is a six-episode season based around the staff of a Croydon chicken shop, Seriously Fried Chicken. What starts off so broad and excruciating as to feel like someone’s havin’ a laff in the way that Ricky Gervais was with his When The Whistle Blows show-within-a-show in […]Archive
June 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 682
Geoff Love and His Orchestra, Big Terror Movie Themes (1976) I didn’t know he was Geoff Love at the time – or rather didn’t know who he was, whoever was at the helm of so many of these things, but I loved the records I found in my grandparents’ collections. Both sets of the grannies […]Archive
March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Daft Punk – Unchained: DVD
Daft Punk – Unchained Director: Herve Martin-Delpierre BBC Worldwide Productions An interesting, and worthy documentary that traces Daft Punk’s music and antics back to the start, in fact back to the pre-robot days when, in an early review of their shoegazer-ish group, they were written off as making “daft punk”. So, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo and […]Archive
April 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Olafur Arnalds: Broadchurch [OST]
Olafur Arnalds Broadchurch [OST] Mercury Classics I didn’t watch Broadchurch – and not for any reason, no silly protest. I saw half an episode, it looked pretty good, maybe one day I’ll watch it. Catch-up. But what I noticed, straight away, was the music. In fact I had to check the credits after seeing that […]Archive
August 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Kate Bush Story – Running Up That Hill: Film
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill Director: Adrian Sibley BBC Released amid the excitement of Bush’s first live shows in 35 years The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill is a BBC documentary that assembles a wonderful cast and offers a considered portrait of Bush, right up to and including her most […]Archive
July 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Notes
Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Notes Director: Dick Fontaine BBC It was one of the greatest thrills of my life to speak to Sonny Rollins – and then to see him perform. That was a couple of years back now, back around the time this film, Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Notes, was made. It’s based around […]Archive
April 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Reelin’ In The Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life
Reelin’ In The Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life Mark Radcliffe Simon & Schuster Ltd For his second memoir British broadcaster, writer, DJ Mark Radcliffe takes a song for every year he’s been alive and extrapolates. It’s a simple concept but one that could only work if the writing is up to it. And […]Archive
March 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman