Classic Album: Can – Future Days
August 13th, 2015 | by John Higgins
This may seem a pretentious review. It probably is. I may well be using words like “oneiric”*, a word that …
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Eden
July 27th, 2015 | by John Higgins
Eden is a cautionary tale based on the life of director Mia Hansen-Love’s brother Sven and shows the dizzying highs …
Shot Glass: The Affectionate Punch
July 22nd, 2015 | by John Higgins
As Shot Glass Theatre enjoys its fifteen month anniversary co-founder Joseph Nawaz and I sit back and toast our success …
Folk Horror on Telly
September 19th, 2014 | by John Higgins
Telly used to be odd. Often that oddness was on purpose. I’m not talking about the “Alan Partridge pitching on …
Classic Album: The Divine Comedy – Promenade
June 25th, 2014 | by John Higgins
I’m none too smart, a sumo-intellectual at best, but people often assume I am clever because of my large forehead, …
Forty Years of Phantom of the Paradise
June 11th, 2014 | by John Higgins
We open on a blood red, pixilated screen, so tightly rotoscoped that Ken Morse must have had to have a …
Classic Album: Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
May 16th, 2014 | by John Higgins
Mark Hollis sits alone in his front room. He is tall, shaggy haired and slightly stooped. Frameless glasses are perched …
Slogan: Or how I learned to stop worrying and hate Serge Gainsbourg.
April 24th, 2014 | by John Higgins
Francois Mitterrand, the French president at the time of Serge Gainsbourg’s death, called him, in a surprisingly emotional obituary, “our …
Classic Album: The World of Twist – Quality Street
March 12th, 2014 | by John Higgins
The World of Twist were, and are, an enigma, wrapped in a conundrum, cocooned in carpet off-cuts and bundled out …