The Birds (1963) was directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a story by Daphne du Maurier. It starred Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy and Suzanne Pleshette. Running time: 119 minutes.       It is one of the most disturbing sequences in cinematic history: a woman tiptoes through a […]

    20:01:2019   Some moment when the moon was blood…  

Hulme Manchester Infotaining article on the legendary SamSams formerly home of Salmon Cabs Hulme Manchester Late night Caribbean nyam   Many a late weekend night/ early Sunday morning in the late 80s, my partner would drive us both over to Salmon Cabs for a munchies-inspired scran of Caribbean takeaway. We lived on Freeman Walk so […]

Mysterious signals have been picked up from distant galaxies.  When fast radio bursts or FRBs, as they are called, reach Earth’s telescopes they shine brightly for a few milliseconds, then disappear. Astronomers have detected dozens over the past decade – and have just announced they’ve found more of them, including a rare repeating signal.  We […]

——-THE seventies was the decade of confusion, of a loss of direction, of new music and the arrival of a vast city centre monster. It’s ten years of a puzzle wrapped up in a riddle, of oil crises, three day weeks, power cuts, of macro-economic changes that revealed just how far British global influence had slipped from the heady […]

sometimes i feel i’ve got to * * run away i’ve got to ** ~Tainted Love

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/mbvdg3/the-cult-of-CELEBRITY-how-sinister-is-our-obsession-with-fame “In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes,” said Andy Warhol — famously. 

Music to rock the nation ~ LEE PERRY 

Greg Tate remembers Jalal Nuriddin of The Last Poets June 2018 “Nuriddin’s musicality, lucidity and crackling charismatic vitality as a poetic messenger accounts for why his best work can still throttle our synapses” By Greg Tate It’s been asserted that all poetry aspires to the condition of music but the poetry that the Black Power movement […]

Women And Their Machines: A Think-piece About Female Pioneerism in Electronic Music PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2013 14:28 Women And Their Machines: A Think-piece About Female Pioneerism in Electronic Music, Post-post Feminism and Some Sassy Statements On Sexism An article with such a mighty subtitle is obviously quite a hefty affair. Not only when […]