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Shoegaze / Trip Hop Rewind

Party like it's 1994 with this Portishead remix of Ride's Moonlight Medicine, featuring Deep Purple's late keyboard player Jon Lord (via Factmag)

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18th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

HARDtalk - Alan Moore

an interview with the comics legend - still available on iPlayer (via @serafinowicz)

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11th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Holy Motors

This year's obligatory divisive Cannes entry comes from Leos Carax, and stars Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue

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24th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: MCA

Absolutely gutted to hear that MCA has passed away, and I suspect Nathaniel Hornblower might have gone with him. As an 11 year old hip hop fan, the disreputable Beastie Boys were clearly going to be a one hit wonder as far as the parents of the world were concerned, but who would have thought they would have evolved to be so endlessly influential and culturaly significant. As a director, Adam Yauch put his hand to many of the Beasties inspiring videos - and more recently through his company Oscilloscope he has become a truly influential character in the world of indie film.

A true loss that hits hard, especially when he was taken so early. RIP.

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4th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Levon Helm

Drummer and vocalist from The Band, Levon Helm has passed away aged 71. Watch The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down in tribute.

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20th Apr 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

RIP: Jim Marshall

RIP amplification pioneer Jim Marshall, who has died aged 88. Hopefully he won't be denied Stairway.

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8th Apr 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

BBC's Downloads-To-Own Plan

The BBC has plans to let you purchase digital TV downloads to keep, just after broadcast - sounds like a decent solution

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15th Mar 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

RIP: Ralph Mcquarrie

@StarWars artist Ralph McQuarrie has died aged 82. He's the guy who drew a lot of the original concept art for Star Wars, designing an entire world that is now a part of nearly everyone's culture.

George Lucas has praised the artist over on StarWars.com

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4th Mar 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

June Tabor and Oysterband

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West Sussex based organisation “Roots around the World” have organised a music festival "The Britfolk Footprint" as part of their efforts to promote both new and established artists. This was the headline evening of the festival with veterans June Tabor and Oysterband top of the bill. Their act was largely based around their two collaborative albums, the folk rock classic "Freedom and Rain" and their current much acclaimed "Ragged Kingdom".

The performance got off to the best possible start with the rousing traditional "Bonny Bunch Of Roses" modified to blend folk diva Tabor's smooth and melodious voice with the stomping backing of the Oysterband. However it was not all folk based music as they worked their way through PJ Harvey’s "That Was My Veil", Dylan’s "Seven Curses", Joy Division’s "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and an excellent duet between Tabor and John Jones of the soul classic "Dark End of the Street". The finishing number was the powerfully delivered Jefferson Airplane 60’s classic "White Rabbit".

On the 8th February, the artists scooped four awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including Best Singer, Best Group and Best Album (Ragged Kingdom), making our attendance very timely.

The support acts for the evening were provided by talented and gimmick free English folk trio "Pilgrim’s Way", and singer guitarist Sean Taylor.

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13th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Lilyhammer

Sopranos/E Street star Steve "Silvio - wait - was it Sal?" Van Zandt is back in Lilyhammer. This time he's a gangster in witness protection who asks to be sent to Norway (big fan of the 1994 Winter Olympics). Culture-clash comedy action to follow. It's a Netflix-only show in the US, which could be a sign of things to come; in the UK it's on BBC4

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9th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Strictly Underground: The Secret World Of Burlington

A peek inside Burlington, the UK's secret underground nuclear bunker/town in Wiltshire built during the second world war. Comes with its own railway station, pub, BBC studio and lots of desks so you can keep up with all that post-apocalyse paper work

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12th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

RIP: Bob Holness

RIP Blockbusters presenter Bob Holness, who has died aged 83. Never was so much humour derived amongst students everywhere from lines like "I'll have an E please Bob".

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6th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Cheeta

Hats off to the original chimp - Cheeta. Keeping it real 1921-2011.

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28th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Ken Russell

RIP legendary british director Ken Russell. Was always thoroughly baffled by Lair Of The White Worm as a young film fan. Not sure what I would make of it now either.

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28th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Final Score

Legendary football scores announcer Tim Mudgin will be reading the scores out today for the final time, after a whopping six-decade broadcasting career.

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19th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Jimmy Saville

RIP Jimmy Saville, 1926-2011. An incomparable personality.

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30th Oct 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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