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X Director: Ti West A24 / Little Lamb / Mad Solar Productions Once in a while a film comes along, and you have very high expectations indeed. Almost so much so that it is a bit of a worry. But then, it’s movie night – and not only no worries, your high expectations are shot […]

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November 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: After An Email In 1999

I once signed off an email to an editor with a ‘x’ I didn’t mean to. It just slipped out. It was the early days of emailing and that little ‘x’ was a fucking boomerang, if you know what I mean. If you don’t, I’ll tell you what I mean, it came right back. The […]

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September 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 89: X – “Wild Gift”

I absolutely expected to hear a few more duds doing this challenge. But shit it’s been good. A lot of great albums I knew about and therefore kinda knew I’d missed and a lot of things I genuinely didn’t know about or certainly didn’t know just how great they would be. I guess there’ll be […]

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August 18, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1890

INXS, Kick [Picture Disc] (1987) Fuck I loved this album! Loved it! It was one of the first tapes I bought, the first I knew of INXS too. I bought it because I loved New Sensation and Devil Inside and Need You Tonight and there they were, all in a row – and what’s more, […]