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Singalongacharlie: The Music of Charles Manson
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While everyone knows of ‘Charles Manson’ few have actually listened to his recordings. Music is the glue that sticks Manson to his friends, his fellow travellers, his ‘Family’, his enemies. In this essay, Mark Goodall reflects on Manson in context of his music. This in anticipation of Quentin Tarantino’s Manson movie and Jordan Peele’s Us.
Death on Film International Conference
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Scenes from the 2019 Offscreen Film Festival, Brussels. Nova Cinema. Photos of the Nova foyer by David Kerekes Death on Film International Conference Nova Cinema Belgium – 23 March 2019 – 13h30 Cinema Nova From cinema’s earliest days, depictions of sexual acts on film were for restricted viewing only, …
Finding Antonio
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Underground comics are comics that exist outside of the mainstream. The phenomenon of the Undergrounds evolved out of a piece of legislation in 1954, which set out to redress the growing tide of crime comics and horror comics polluting the minds of American children. The introduction of this Comics Code …
Twin Donut, Or A Note From The Author
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I started work on the book Blood Sucking Freak in 1998. I was twenty-four years old. I had visited New York City a few times prior to that, but by the time 1999 rolled around, I was flying in and out of town on a regular basis. I had made …
Magic Morning Wood
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Clive Davies, the author of the film reviews book, Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About, now co-hosts a film podcast. Whereas the reviews in his book are very concise, each podcast devotes a lengthy discussion to a given movie. Says Clive: It’s amateur in the extreme, and not …
This Will be a New Beginning
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This will be a new beginning This will be a time for changing This will be never ending This will be a happy ending The Manic Street Preachers have never shied away from the inevitable demise of the band. As early as their 1991 debut record Generation Terrorists they were …
A Few Questions On The Manic Street Preachers
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HEADPRESS: Why a book on this album, Know Your Enemy? STEPHEN LEE NAISH: The Manic Street Preachers were a subject I’d wanted to broach for a while. But I didn’t want to write a traditional biography of them as there are already plenty of very good bios that have been …
Re-jigging Know Your Enemy
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Complaints about Manic Street Preachers’ sixth record Know Your Enemy are rife among fans of the band. Most point to the fact that the record is far too long, far too erratic in its structure. Complaints also take aim at the lyrical minefields, the desolate dirges, the odd genre twists …
The Silent Walk
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It’s a vile Valentine’s Day evening, cold and wet, perfect conditions for contracting pneumonia. Yet the motley crew gathered beneath the Brutalist edifice of Kensington Town Hall remain stoic in adversity. A couple of volunteers wander through the crowd offering placards on sticks proclaiming: ‘Justice for Grenfell: We Demand The …
Tsunami on VHS Cassette
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In the summer of 1999, Manic Street Preachers headlined the prestigious Glastonbury music festival. More or less the whole performance was broadcast on television. The performance was good, a full bodied hit packed selection, but an energy was lacking in the performance somewhere. This headline slot came off the back …