Second cinema trip of 2026, at the great PCC (again) last night to see the highly enjoyable and playfully cheap BULK with nice Q&A with Ben Wheatley and Andy Starke.

First cinema trip of the year (used to go 2 or 3 times a day, still, mustn’t dwell…). Really enjoyed the movie, like a Bava Bond movie, great to have a chat and some beers with the directors after as well as Peter Strickland and Andy Starke. Great cinema too.

This is what you get when someone with a long and storied career in the music industry auctions off their music collection. An impressive, varied and huge amount of stuff, worth having a nose through www.ewbankauctions.co.uk/The-Korda-Ma...

First gig of the year, 2026 off to a slow start, Kim Gordon at Shepherd’s Bush Empire was really good, quite noisy and I didn’t know any of the songs.

Coachella is such a great looking festival, big widescreen stage. YouTube coverage is also great, they know when to stand back, when to get involved. Everything looks like a live music video. Even Nine Inch Noise bring a “pop” production with dancers, set, etc… youtu.be/Vm6k0geoynQ?...

Einsturzende Neubauten currently live streaming a free in studio concert to introduce the new lineup and to celebrate 46 years of being totally awesome! www.youtube.com/live/wBW-XtH...

Mick Ronson Rainbow Concert 1974- AMAZING, someone has done an incredible job of reconstructing this once lost concert, soundtrack is mostly studio, but the offstage stuff is priceless, lots of Bowie people (Garson, Boulder, Gillespie) and Glam kids two years off being Punks youtu.be/XRqmwGF9RXk?...

Today in Surprise Finds on Free Streaming Services: The Fall - Perverted by Language // bis on Tubi. While I love a good remaster/restoration, this untampered gem feels exactly the same as watching the IKON (Factory records) VHS back in those 80’s.

Top Secret! Lifeforce Piranha 2: Flying Killers The Hunger Spinal Tap Galaxy Quest Blade Runner Dune Howard The Duck Event Horizon Akira Videodrome Darkman Bad Taste, Braindead, Meet The Feebles The Hidden Princess Mononoke Mystery Men Fight Club Iron Giant Brazil The Thing

It used to be newsworthy when every 5 or 10 years some rock virtuoso child would emerge, they’d be soloing away on Nationwide, Record Breakers, Blue Peter, etc. Now there are entire families of them, this lot are incredible, guitarist has only been playing about 2 years youtu.be/F6WRxaC3QME?...

One day, all music will (hopefully) be made this way… youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...

I have missed this energy on Tv. Welcome back, first ep free on AmazonPrime.

My listening age is one year older than my real age, which is, like, actually really cool, yeah!

Amazing footage, this is the 70’s I remember. Love the kid saying the forgotten catchphrase “fans”, everyone wearing the kid uniform: trainers, jeans, t-shirt, maybe a sweat top and some sort of cool jacket. Playing outdoors, unsupervised, wonderful stuff. Thank you fans!

A nice, refreshing glass of fags in the excellent 1969 Man Alive doc The Office Party on BBC iPlayer.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen. Einsturzende Neubauten Kate Bush Husker Du Barry Gray New Order

I was a little worried My Bloody Valentine wouldn’t be loud enough at Wembley, however…

I was a little worried My Bloody Valentine wouldn’t be loud enough at Wembley, however…

My Bloody Valentine at Wembley OVO Arena tonight! Still sounds like a weird joke; the least likely arena band. Looks like it be effing amazing though. J Mascis supporting.

Gary Numan was amazing at Hammersmith Odeon, better than expected, no big hits, focus on Telekon era, sounded timeless and futuristic. Great lighting design too, no screens, HO is the spiritual home of the rock lighting rig. Down In The Park might just be one of the all timer classic songs.

GARY tonight! Hammersmith, saw him there 41 years ago with blue hair (him not me). Doing Telekon tonight, can’t argue with that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPD...

Saw the original Running Man in the cinema, it was terrible. Watched it again on video, it was great, some films just work better at home or with friends or drunk - I would refer to this as the Running Man Effect. Reserving final judgement on the new one until I’ve seen it on Betamax (or Blu ray).

Actually quite like these “new” Joy Division prints and T-shirts. store.neworder.com/gb/new-order...

This new 40th Anniversary video from The Primitives for Thru The Flowers is the most proper INDIE thing I’ve seen in years. Lots of memorabilia, paraphernalia and ephemera youtu.be/wj-24bxJgF4?...

Glen Powell is the AI Tom Cruise.

After all that drama the other night, went to a nice, relaxing big movie red carpet premiere.

Yeah, that’s me alright. Hashtag Running man premiere.

Last night, heard a horrible wailing outside, found someone jumped off the railway bridge, failed suicide attempt, broken legs, great distress. Called 999 but line was bad so had to flag down passers by to call. No neighbours came out, passers by had ear buds, I was the only person who heard it!

If you’ve seen the excellent Mancunian Man documentary you’ll be pleased to hear a load of Cliff Twemlow movies have just arrived on AmazonPrime youtu.be/yxkIOhWMsKw?...

RIP Peter Watkins, one of Britain’s least known yet most influential film directors. Here’s a Guardian review I did yonks ago for his relentlessly relevant Punishment Park, all his films are worth checking out; The War Game, Culloden, Privilege, etc. www.theguardian.com/film/2012/ja...

Went to see The Young Gods for the umpteenth time, first saw them around ‘87ish. With samples/drums/singer lineup they basically invented a new way to be a band. Still great, never let me down. Set mostly fab new LP, also managed bangers like Skinflowers, Gasoline Man and L’amourir. Top night.

This lp was a big deal for me: local band made good, went to school with two of the guitarists, one was a neighbour since the late 70’s, went to their first gigs and was integral to that newfangled Shoegaze scene. Will deffo be going to this.

Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth in the new Frankenstein from @realgdt.bsky.social not seen it yet but looks like a winner if this pic is anything to go by…

Reading people, local boy Peter Strickland’s excellent dress based horror film In Fabric (2019) is on iPlayer. All character/place names are locally sourced, the spooky department store setting is based on Jacksons - check out the pneumatics. I love this movie so much that I actually appear in it!

I don’t see how you are all acting so calm when this country is having to manage without a Duke of York.

I love Diane Keaton’s incredible 1987 documentary Heaven, where she intersperses movie afterlives with talking head interviews about what heaven will be like. I hope she’s enjoying the irony of a lot of it now. Whole film is on YouTube. RIP Diane Keaton youtu.be/gsvi4-zbq0g?...

I’ve not been on holiday in almost 25 years. Not technically on one now, but I am in South-West France, having some nice food on a nice day with some nice people, so, for the next hour or so at least it’s Bonne Vacances pour moi!

Gary Numan, Minnesota, 1980 concert footage shot in glorious Super-8, looking both retro AND futuristic youtu.be/I9--dEiF-qQ?...

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order. Darkplace Veep King of the Hill Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Monty Python Police Squad Documentary Now Mst 3000 Wonder Showzen SCTV

Great evening bouncing on the sprung floor of Islington Assembly Rooms to the greatest “hits” of Krautrock courtesy of Michael Rother plus added tape drones of Marta Salogni as support.

Great to see Marta and her band of open reel tape machines doing their thing supporting Michael Rother tonight.

Saw One Battle After Another projected in glorious VistaVision. Only Cinerama to go and I’ve see all the formats.

Although I have a player and some movies, I’ve never actually watched a 4K disc until now, so starting off as I mean to continue with this corker that I first saw on bootleg Betamax back in 1982 or thereabouts.

A Conjuring I did go.

Man, those were the days to be a Tv reviewer, to see Thunderbirds you had to go to a cinema! None of that low-rez, timecoded, watermarked streamer that can only be watched on a laptop or phone bollox.

Managed to pop out for a quick Frightfest last night.