We Are Frank Chickens sounded very much like the future in 1984. Forty years later it sounds like an album from 1984. So, pretty good for the most part. Here's the single We Are Ninja youtu.be/cXZanbZ6PWs?...

Robocop is American Jesus. He sacrifices his life and comes back as a gun.

The new Elvis Memphis box set is a joy. Nothing new, but good to be reminded how vital Elvis could be under the right circumstances, and Memphis the city seemed to provide plenty of them.

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Alex Cox, director of Sid and Nancy and Repo Man, is crowdfunding what he says will be his last movie, to be based on Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

MY LAST MOVIE

Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, and Walker, and presenter of Moviedrome, embarks on his last hurrah.

I don't often play John Oswald's Grayfolded, but am in a receptive mood, so...

Please enjoy this German-sung cover of Chas and Dave's cockernee anthem "Gertcha".

Urrfiie Gertcha

Provided to YouTube by Zebralution GmbHUrrfiie Gertcha · Klaus LageMusikmaschine℗ 2014 Monopol Verlag GmbHReleased on: 2014-04-04Composer: Peacock D.Lyricist...

Currently playing: The Sneetches – 1985-1991 (Alias) 1991 A cracking collection, if you're partial to classic American guitar pop. Only For A Moment youtu.be/hZpJZ9gdauw?...

Currently playing: The Rolling Stones – The Brussels Affair '73 For years, one of my favourite boots, and from 2011, an official Stones release.

An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40 www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

‘An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40

As a new anniversary edition of the late author’s landmark debut is published, high profile fans reflect on an extraordinary career

Does Scott Walker count?