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OPERATOR PLEASE — YES YES VINDICTIVE (Brille): Australia’s Operator Please fitted right into 2007’s Nu Rave scene with their magnificently-deranged single, Just A Song About Ping Pong, which sounded like CSS overdosing on E-numbers. It’s present on Yes Yes Vindictive, along with the band’s two earlier — and equally fun singles — Get What You Want and Leave It Alone. Apparently, the band only formed to take part in a school Battle of the Bands competition a couple of years back, which possibly explains just how they’ve managed to capture the sound of youthful exuberance so successfully. There’s nothing deep or cerebral on here, but if feelgood, deranged dance beats are your thing then Yes Yes Vindictive should be on your shopping list this year. Feb 24 2008
MORRISSEY — GREATEST HITS (Decca): No Interesting Drug or We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful? What goes on? Oh, I see. These are Morrissey’s greatest hits insofar as they are the singles that charted the highest, rather than a best of compilation. I’d imagine that any self-respecting Mozz fanatic would already own these songs in one form or another, which is probably why two previously-unreleased tracks have been included here. Leaving aside the breathtaking chutzpah involved in putting unheard songs on a greatest hits collection, this is still an entertaining album, albeit one that doesn’t quite tell the full story of Steven Patrick Morrissey. more

BLACK TIDE — LIGHT FROM ABOVE (Interscope): Heavy Metal . . . whether you love it or hate it, you have to admire its resilience as an art form. Feb 10 2008
Although Miami’s Black Tide are a very young band — one of them is still only 14 — they’re incredibly talented musicians, completely steeped in the classic 1980s metal tradition, right down to covering Metallica’s Hit the Lights, while Warriors of Time has more than a flavour of vintage Iron Maiden. All opener Shockwave needs is slightly screechier lead vocals and it could easily be from Motley Crue’s debut album. Signed to Eminem’s label, I’d gamble on Black Tide becoming as big as Slim Shady, especially in America, where this kind of live fast, die young rock has always gone down a storm. more

Sunday Sun Stereo Feb 3 2008
MALCOLM MIDDLETON - SLEIGHT OF HEART (Full Time Hobby): It’s been less than a year since A Brighter Beat, the last album from Malcolm Middleton, and Sleight of Heart comes across like a more reflective, mostly acoustic companion of the 2007 first release. more

Sunday Sun Stereo Jan 13 2008
DEVIAN — NINEWINGED SERPENT (Century Media): This nine wings business is confusing me . . . surely if a serpent had an odd number of wings it would just flap round in circles all the time? more

Does X mark the No1 spot? Dec 16 2007
SHAUN — and Vic — will have some tough competition to beat if they are to clinch the coveted Christmas number one slot. more

Sunday Sun Stereo Dec 9 2007
THE HOUSEMARTINS AND THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH — SOUP (Mercury): Although this CD is touted as being the best of both bands, the Housemartins don’t come out of it too well. more

Maximo mystery Dec 2 2007
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TOP North band Maximo Park are offering fans the chance to win a magical mystery bus tour of their favourite city ahead of their homecoming gig. more

Sunday Sun Stereo Nov 18 2007
VARIOUS ARTISTS — RADIO 1’S LIVE LOUNGE VOLUME 2 (BMG): I’d imagine most casual music listeners will find this double CD enjoyable and annoying in equal measure. more

Cinema Releases

Disturbia Sep 14 2007
 
THANKS to our hectic lives, many of us never get to know the neighbours. more

3:10 To Yuma Sep 14 2007
 
Fifty years after Glenn Ford and Van Heflin cocked their pistols in the original 3:10 To Yuma, based on a story by Elmore Leonard, director James Mangold saddles up for a fast-paced remake that reinvigorates the western genre. more

Shoot 'Em Up Sep 14 2007
 
SHOOT ’Em Up delivers an eye-popping orgy of whizzing bullets, exploding scenery and eviscerated flesh. more

Superbad Sep 14 2007
 
THOSE tumultuous college years have been exploited endlessly for laughs and tears. more

Atonement Sep 7 2007
 
SINCE opening the Venice Film Festival, Joe Wright’s immaculately crafted film has been hailed as the first genuine Oscar contender of the year. more

Rise Of The Footsoldier Sep 7 2007
 
WRITTEN by brothers William and Julian Gilbey, and directed by the latter, Rise Of The Footsoldier is a bloodthirsty, true-life account of violence and retribution in the late 1980s and early 90s. more

Run Fat Boy Run Sep 7 2007
 
FAMOUS for his role in Friends, this is David Schwimmer’s debut as director. It’s a spry romantic comedy which proves nice guys can finish last and still get the girl. more

Hallam Foe Aug 31 2007
 
THERE is a special bond between mothers and sons. In Hallam Foe, a young man’s deep emotional ties to his dead mother fester into obsession and a voyeuristic journey of self-discovery that threatens his mental well-being. more


 

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