Rammstein: Paris

All being well on Sunday 14th June 2020 I should have been in Cardiff experiencing the spectacle of Rammstein live from the so-called ‘Feuerzone’ but, ‘what with one thing and another,’ that show has been postponed by a year so I took the opportunity to find the next best thing and watch the Neue Deutsche Härte band’s 2017 concert film,...

Western Stars

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard When Bruce Springsteen released his latest album, Western Stars, in June 2019 there was a rumbling of dissatisfaction from some sections of his fan base that there didn’t appear to be any kind of extensive promotional tour for the record. That concern was, supposedly, answered though when a movie...

24 Hour Party People (FAC 401)

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard From the mid 1970s to the late 1990s one name was, according to Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film 24 Hour Party People at least, synonymous with the Manchester music scene – Anthony H. (Tony) Wilson. The film charts, to some degree, his career from hang gliding local TV news presenter...

Woodstock: Three Days Of Peace And Music – Director’s Cut

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard To say 1969 was a landmark year for several aspects of culture would be an understatement. Less than a month ago (as I write this) we marked the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, the Stonewall riots in New York ushered in a new era for the LGBT+...

Lords Of Chaos (presented by Clameur De Cinema)

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard The story of the early Norwegian Black Metal scene is one that has been told many times and from many different points of view, and that I have more than a familiarity with from reading articles in Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Terroizer and other magazines. One version I haven’t read...