Talking Heads

Inception

14/08/2010
By Chris Wright
Inception

“You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” – Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime, but applicable to this movie in spades. Inception is the blockbuster of the summer and on a single viewing, well worth the attention. Hell, I may even see it again! Like Usual Suspects, Inception is a...
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LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening (2010)

15/05/2010
By Chris Wright
LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening (2010)

First let me say, you’ll have noticed a certain fondness for eighties music creeping into these pages in recent months? Well this is close to perfection. Take a great drum sound, add megabass and lots of synthesisers. Marvel at the Bowie imitations, gasp as the sound of Sparks bubbles up through the mix. Devo...
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Brighton Festival: This is Afrobeat! – Tony Allen

15/05/2010
By Chris Wright
Brighton Festival: This is Afrobeat! – Tony Allen

At £20 per ticket, this event deserved a better sound system, but overhearing an earnest debate on who performed the original “Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads or Tom Jones? was worth the price of admission alone. Tony Allen of course played on neither version, but as Brian Eno pointed out in his...
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