Saturday night music at the Lansdowne pub in Lewes, church of the unchurched, and my (low) expectations are scattered to the four winds by the performance of Robert Lashmar AKA Rhythmic/AKA The Hat Man. (read more)
Elderly males can get frisky. It’s a post-pubescent flare before death. (read more)
When the wild side is your USP, don’t be surprised when all hell breaks loose (read more)
Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot? (read more)
The Art Life tells us no more of David Lynch’s life than he wants us to know. (read more)
Sloppy thinking and lack of spiritual purpose has allowed agents of discord to invade our shared idea space (read more)
Anglo-Madri-Mexi, Sinuous and Sexy – Jenny & the Mexicats hit the Con Club in Lewes (read more)
One look at the packet, and you’ll definitely need a quick gasper. (read more)
For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far (read more)
Steve ‘Snips’ Parsons interviews Chris Spedding (read more)
Predating instant gratification by decades, Pet Sounds expresses a yearning which still makes for emotional listening. Essay (read more)
In a century of terror, perhaps Lovecraft’s visions make more sense than ever (read more)
Wire – A band so good they named both a cult TV series and a snotty music magazine after them. Live review (read more)
Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends (read more)
Underground comix gave space to bold and innovative talents who thrived in the ‘anything goes’ atmosphere following the summer of love. (read more)
Bazooka Joe is a one eyed boy who heads a secret society and is named after a powerful projectile weapon. He was given life by an ex-pornographer then wrapped in wax and sold to children. (read more)
By the roaring twenties a cinematic lens was steadily streaming increasingly deranged and lusty images out into the hinterlands of dullsville USA (read more)
A hopeless mess without discernible form, sympathetic characters or clear narrative structure (read more)
Over the 3 days comprising the 8th, 9th and 10th of April 2015 Thelemites around the world will celebrate the transmission of Liber Al Vegis to Aleister Crowley in a Cairo hotel room. (read more)
For my money, along with The Pistols and The Clash, The Heartbreakers were the only outfit to really ‘get it’, whatever ‘it’ was in 1977. (read more)
They grabbed the audience from the first chord and refused to let them go, playing only original material and building a set that couldn’t terminate without some random violence (read more)
Something purposeful and stubbornly cryptic is obviously gathering pace inside the communist walls of the Middle Kingdom. (read more)
Captain America – The Winter Soldier is Marvel’s latest attempt to make their pen on paper characters effective in the movie business. They succeed more than they fail and the new film is both more subversive in tone and brutal in its execution (read more)
There were around 250 people milling around the makeshift bunker and most of them had taken the trouble to dress for excess. (read more)
Torture, blood sacrifice and sinister messages extracted from Beatles lyrics. The final surges of the California Death Ray. (read more)
I do it for the same reason other cosplayers do it – to escape from the tyranny of ‘self’. (read more)
He was a writer who wanted to rub out the word and when the word is gone only the image remains. The codex – the control formula – pictures of ‘what will be’ carved into stone. (read more)
Bobby Beausoleil and Charles Manson. The collision of two dominant personalities would certainly be the trigger for the first and, perhaps, all three of the gory and ritualistic Manson Family killings. (read more)
Manson has lost some of his ability to exercise the media for his own sinister purpose, but still retains the sanguine air of a devil in temporary chains. (read more)
California is quite simply projecting the dreams of a dying Sun God into the ether (read more)
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