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ARIES {Mar 21–Apr 20}
Sometimes the only way to re-invent yourself is to distance yourself from the yesterdays that defined you. You’re about to unleash your newer version: cool, clever and more inventive!

TAURUS {Apr 21–May 21}
If a partner has become more reliant on your finances it may not bode well if you’re already feeling the seasonal pinch. However, being resourceful is a gift of yours and finding clever solutions? The universal imperative! Read the rest of this article »

This is not the end

What do you get if you cross last year’s Single Father with an ITV multi-part drama? Some darn good acting, a massively convincing bereavement and a growing suspicion that all is not as it seems. Is anything ever as it seems on ITV? Are cops ever anything except shouty or blind to the real truths dug out at great personal peril by civilians? It seems that with the disappearance of The Bill we also lost a wide variety of police type characters, but that’s by the by. Without You is here and it’s mixing mourning with investigation, isolation and concern to make something shaping up to be really rather intriguing. Read the rest of this article »

Taking a retrospectively influential B movie of the ’60s and mixing it with an original soundtrack from punk musician, beatnik poet and all round creative character David Thomas and his latest creative project Two Pale Boys, was an incredible experience. Feeding the sound of brass instruments and guitar through a midi system, along with Thomas’ otherwordly vocals that screeched and sighed, the scares were heightened from the slightly ridiculous and uneasy to the uncanny and spine-tingling, showing quite how this film that was immediately dismissed upon original release went on to influence the likes of David Lynch. Eerily fascinating and a delightful ambush of an experience.

Duke Of York’s Picturehouse, 2 December 2011
Rating:
Victoria Nangle

The Christmas party season officially started with a fine selection of rocking rhythm and blues numbers that kept the dance floor filled as everyone jitterbugged and lindy hopped to the sounds of Joe Turner, Wanda Jackson et al. Bad Bad Whiskey delivered a storming set of honkytonking classics and the dancing continued with singer Citizen Lane, sounding uncannily like Lonnie Donegan, joining in as the band delivered a blistering version of ‘Cocaine Habit Blues’ followed by crowd pleaser ‘Midnight Special’. After their set, Lane took to the decks and at midnight we were all offered mince pies. A friendly, fun night out.

Latest Music Bar, 2 December 2011
Rating:
Steve Clements