22nd
October
2008
‘The Blue Route’ is the first single release to be taken from The Walkmen’s new album ‘You and Me’, which was released earlier this week to high critical praise. Out on November 10th through Fierce Panda Records, it’s a luscious daydream waltz and proof positive that there’s far more to this band than ‘The Rat’.
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22nd
October
2008
Having sold out every one of his London shows in 2008, tickets for Paul Weller’s first ever gig at London’s O2 Arena go on sale on Friday 24th October. Don’t miss your chance to see Paul and very special guests The Coral, in London’s newest and brightest arena.
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22nd
October
2008
David Beckham has agreed to a loan move to AC Milan, starting in January. Beckham’s Los Angeles Galaxy team play in Major League Soccer and their season will end this weekend.
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22nd
October
2008
AU four piece Airbourne and their debut album, Runnin’ Wild: forget your worries, get down to the front of the stage and lose your mind to some ear-bleeding, sweat-soaked rock’n’roll. Or, as the song continues, “Drink your beer/Drink your wine/Let’s have a good time.” Stand up for rock ‘n’ roll indeed. Airbourne vocalist Joel O’Keeffe first realize…
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22nd
October
2008
Hotly tipped Scottish band Broken Records release their third single ‘Lies’ on Distiller Records on November 3rd. ‘Lies’ is released on limited 7” and digital download. The b side is the unreleased track ‘Travelling Songs’.
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22nd
October
2008
Shot in Chengdu before the earthquake, Jia Zhangke’s new film is a masterly combination of fact and fiction.
The fact: a once-secret military hardware factory and its workers were moved deep inland in the late 1950s to protect them from a perceived Soviet threat. Now an aeronautics plant, it has shed many staff and is moving to a greenfield si…
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22nd
October
2008
On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, the opportunities for thrill-seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they’ve always been: sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, fashion, football and fighting. Paul Carty (Nicky Bell) goes to the game, chases skirt, pores over records in the racks at Probe, and gets…
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22nd
October
2008
“Inglourious Basterds” (sic) begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.
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22nd
October
2008
Stephen Walker made a name for himself making documentaries including Hardcore, which followed an English girl trying to break into the American pornography industry to support her son, as well as working on the Cutting Edge series. This week sees him move into feature films with the inspirational Young@Heart which follows the Young @ Heart chorus …
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