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April 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Discovery

I used to hate it when my mum would say things like “turn that noise down!” And I would always say back: “it’s not noise!” and she’d say, “It is. It’s noise!” I really couldn’t handle that. I had to say who it was that she was calling noise. I had to yell back something […]

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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 […]

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December 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Shark Week: Monday December 1 – Sunday December 7, 2014

Shark Week kicks off tonight on Sky’s Discovery Channel. The opening program, 8.30pm tonight (Monday, Dec 1) is Lair of The Mega Shark which features experts Andy Casagrande and Jeff Kerr in New Zealand. The up-close footage is amazing. Also worth seeing (Tuesday, Dec 2) is Zombie Shark, also filmed in New Zealand. I’ve watched […]

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February 20, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1612

Daft Punk, Discovery (2001) I’m not sure why I have this – or why I have retained this because it was the death of Daft Punk for me. For a long time. They eventually redeemed themselves with the Tron: Legacy soundtrack but this was a sad album as a follow-up to Homework. Man, I loved […]