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Paul Kersey

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  1. On 21/10/2022 at 19:21, Paul Kersey said:

    Just booked a ticket for Saul Adamczewski at Beat Generator in Dundee in November.

    Should be good...

    Hmmm, the gig has been cancelled due to "unforseen circumstances". 

  2. 9 minutes ago, Archie McSquackle said:
    1 hour ago, Ewan8472 said:
    The whole series was OTT

    I've read (and enjoyed) the book but didn't realise this was based on the book. When I saw the trailer it reminded me of the book but I thought it looked dreadful and, as you say, OTT. Decent reviews on here though so I might give it a go.

    It's slightly OTT and they do play hard and fast with the truth... but it's entertaining and amusing. 

  3. 26 minutes ago, saint dave said:

    Based on Ben MacIntyre's book about the founding of the SAS.

    Made by Stephen Knight of Peaky Blinders. 

    First couple of episodes deal with David Stirling trying to get a new unit authorized and staffed , bit slow but gets better late episode 2 onwards. The music is an odd fit , a lot of punk anthems.

    I liked the book and the series is quite good in a Boys Own type adventure. 

    I watched the first episode on Beeb 1 on Sunday. Really enjoyed it. I'm away to start a binge on the iPlayer.

  4. Just a heads up if anybody is interested...

    Sault have released 5 albums today, they're available as free downloads on their website for 5 days.

    Link here

    You need a password to access the downloads. The password is "godislove".

  5. Just booked a ticket for the Elvana gig in Dundee in a few weeks.

    A Nirvana tribute act fronted by an Elvis impersonator. This could be the best thing ever, or it could just as easily be the worst thing ever...

  6. 14 hours ago, BallochSonsFan said:

    There is. Frankfurt is a fucking hole.

    There is. Mannheim and Heidelberg are both great.

    I don't mind Frankfurt. I reckon that the skyscrapers look pretty cool.

    It is absolutely crawling with junkies though. When I was there I walked round a corner and very nearly tripped over two guys who were sitting on the pavement in broad daylight casually shooting up.

  7. On 17/10/2022 at 20:32, Detournement said:

    Going Places (1974)

    I came to this through reading Frederic Raphael's Eyes Wide Open which is his a strange book about his dealings with Stanley Kubrick when he was hired to write Eyes Wide Shut. At one point he tells a female TV executive that she needs to watch this as it's the best French film of the 1970s and later he has Kubrick advising him to cast Gerard Depardieu and Miou Miou who are in this together in another film he is writing adapted from Tibor Fischer's The Thought Gang. The film is about two petty criminals who begin as rapists but through a series of misadventures learn to become considerate lovers. It's pretty rubbish apart from a 15 minute section where they decide the best way to meet a woman is to hang around outside a women's prison and they pick up Jeanne Moreau who by the end of the night has committed suicide in a very degrading way. 

     

    I'm a huge fan of this film.

    There was an American remake a few years ago, called The Jesus Rolls, starring John Turturro, playing the same character that he plays in The Big Lebowski.

    Audrey Tautou is in the Miou Miou role.

    It is terrible. 

  8. I just saw The Cure at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Berlin.

    Twilight sad  were the support act, and they were astonishingly pish. Most of their songs were instantly forgettable, apart from one that had a chorus that went something like "fucking someone won't keep you warm at night". I nearly cringed myself inside out when I heard that. It was the most embarrassing lyric that I have ever heard.

    The Cure were immense though. They must have played for the best part of three hours. They did every tune from Disintegration along with a selection  of their various chart hits.

    Robert Smith must be drawing a pension by now, but he still has it.

     

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