After visiting (and absolutely loving) the Monopoly Events ‘For The Love of Sci-Fi’ convention last year (see review), I was looking forward to attending their Liverpool Comic Con, especially as Burt Young was attending and I could add to my ‘Rocky’ photo collection with him after meeting Brigitte Nielsen and Carl Weathers at the aforementioned […]
It’s been over a year since I first heard Kris Barras and loved his music so much that I put his song ‘Hail Mary’ on one of our Soundcheck ’em out shows for you all to hear (and buy). It’s also been over a year since I was last at our beloved Tivoli venue too. […]
Never having been to ‘For The Love of Sci-Fi’ before, things took a turn for the worse for me a week before the event due to personal circumstances and ill health. Despite already having booked my ‘Rocky 4’ photoshoot with Carl Weathers and Brigette Nielsen, it was touch and go if I could attend or […]
Before you get any further into this review, please take a few minutes to read my reviews of Grimmfest 2016 and Grimmfest 2017. “Why do that?” you may well be asking yourselves. The reason is that Grimmfest always delivers a superb selection of films, and I’m sure that once you read about some of the […]
It’s that time of the year again where thousands of people travel to Birmingham NEC to get their gaming geek on! Over the course of 3 days I managed to play some of the most highly anticipated games due to come out later this year and beyond. Before I get to the games it occurred […]
Falling in the middle of a Bank Holiday weekend, there were certainly a lot of events going on to capture peoples attention; Ed Sheeran playing just up the road at the Etihad Stadium, Manchesters great football rivals Liverpool playing in a Champions League final where the local populace were packing out sports bar to cheer […]
Started in 2008 by Jaime Milner and Ash Blackwell, Wales Comic Con is a definite one off. Over the years I’ve been to a lot of Comic Cons in the UK and USA (yes even The San Diego CC at Golden Hall in 1990, and then in the San Diego convention centre in 1991), so […]
Iconic film scores (not including musicals). There are so many. The Godfather (Nino Rota), the ‘Dollars triliogy‘ (Ennio Morricone), Star Wars (John Williams). My own favourites; Blade Runner (Vangelis) and Paris, Texas (Ry Cooder), they are the soul of the film, indelible anthems that must have a perfect fit to the narrative. They swoop, soar and […]
It’s not surprising how a couple of my American friends thought Jonathan Pie was a ‘real’ newsperson. Slightly ruffled suit, windswept hair, squinting into camera, he does appear to be Mr BBC. One exclaimed her shock at him not being sacked for his ‘Potty mouth’. (Oh such sweet lips that utter platitudes of angry exasperation […]
Over the past two decades, Californian punk-rockers Alien Ant Farm have had a career which parallels surprisingly closely with the trajectory of another band I like: Eastbourne alt-rock outfit Toploader. I realise that geographically and musically they are hard to compare, but hear me out: both formed in the mid-to-late 90s, both enjoyed their greatest […]