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Tyrannosaur

October 18, 2011

It’s a violent place, the cinema. Film is a media that’s made for capturing things that move dynamically. It’s why slapstick flourished in the early days and why CGI monsters continue to slug it out and spill their shiny pixels across our screens from one opening weekend to the next. Tyrannosaur is a study of

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Treacle clothing get its limited edition sweat on!

April 23, 2011

Philth Treacle Clothing Sweatshirt – treacle sponge – nice Our friends down at treacle clothing have been busy with two new limited edition sweatshirts for us! Bob from treacle sent the press release and as covert are about to intreview both philth and N4T4 ( never ready graffiti crew) I thought it be nice

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Geektastic – Chillax with Recording Sound In the Midlands Part 3 – Panel Interview – The Suit Interview #2

April 17, 2011

Its Sunday Morning. So have you got your Bacon Buttie at hand, your mug of tea and you reading glasses on? yes? Good as its time for the 2nd half of the interview questions on music recording in the midlands and this half is very chilled . 12. Software or hardware? Discuss Jon:

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Music Geek Extreme! Recording Sound In the Midlands Part 2 – Panel Interview – The Suit Interview #2

April 16, 2011

Ok – In the 1st part of the Interview we met the panel, and I bet you thought “that was nice but where are the actual questions” Well here they are!!! This is the first half and then tomorrow we’ll put up the second half. This is the proper muso geek stuff , so

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Hector Osbert Silenced due to Egyptian riots

January 26, 2011

This is just a quick post, but I thought it needed sharing Some of you maybe aware of the Riots and demonstrations that are currently going in Egypt. And to most people of coventry this will have no relevance, and covert normally shy’s away from Politics because, lets be honest, it has no place here.

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Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part Two)

December 19, 2010

PART TWO: So Call The Shots, the unique forum under which local film-makers could network and collaborate had expired, exposing a deficient, isolated scene, inhabited by creative refugees and struggling, aspiring film-makers. However, Wood and Pinches were defiant, certain that Call The Shots could still play a valuable role in Coventry’s film-making, they set about plotting its comeback. (Cue Rocky Theme). Just a

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Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part One)

December 19, 2010

PART ONE: Director Robert Altman once said that film-making is a chance to live many lifetimes. With this single remark, Altman sent forth what is arguably one of the most laconic endorsements for film-making ever, in which he refers not only to the subject matter of each film, but to the lives and times that revolve

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My Dad: The Binman-Director

December 13, 2010

A few months after I was born in 1979, my dad, Bernard, and my uncle Jim made a short horror film called The Phantom in the Mirror, which they shot on Super 8 and edited in camera as they went along. The film spins a familiar yarn, about a haunted mirror which consumes the

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The Gentleman’s Dub Club “Emergency” Tour

December 4, 2010

This skanking ninepeice is really one to keep you eye on… taking dub, ska & roots and bringing it to you with the air and disgrace of a classic 80′s ska night. We caught them over at Outlook festival last September where they had the place jumping to their offbeats and upbeats. They’ve been real

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Quick question…

November 29, 2010

No. I didn’t think so either. In fact, it’s still effing November! So shut up about it already! Can I not enjoy my day off in my jimmers without having to endure a bajillion seasonally excruciating adverts! Brrrr….

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