Introducing… Blade Runner at Borderlines Book Festival, Carlisle

I’ll be introducing a screening of Blade Runner (Director’s Cut, 2007) at Borderlines Book Festival on Friday. Now as you know, I’m no film theorist, so I’ll be talking about the film’s relationship to PKD’s Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheep, production gossip and why Blade Runner is great fun to play with. And if…

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nou screening at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, NY

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nou, will be making its North American Premiere at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival in at The Producer’s Club, New York, on Saturday 6th Oct. Loads of interesting performances going on, including ‘THE PSYCHEDELIC MAESTRO’, Simon Boswell playing at the Mercury Lounge. A huge thank you to Dan Abella, Jon Stevens and the team…

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Nigel Kneale

Thinking about the smooth and the rough, about the digital and the analogue and cutting things up has sent me down a Nigel Kneale route. Here’s a link to The Stone Tape (1972) – everyone raves but it’s too overwrought for me, and I like a bit of Bronte, as you know. Here’s a link…

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The Bear

Close the internet! This is my colleague R’s new housemate. I kid you not. This is The Bear. As of today, no further cats are required.

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Pamela Doove, amongst others

Always a risk to go see telly live but The League of Gentlemen was pretty perfect. Pamela Doove’s audition Review of show on The Guardian here.

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Dylan Moran in Edinburgh

He has actual jokes, which is sort of confusing now, though they are good jokes. And he has stopped drinking and obviously, we should be supportive of such decisions. And yet, and yet… Maybe I went to see Bernard Black and saw Dylan Moran. Must happen a lot. I mean, that must be a huge…

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Hymns for Robots – Noctium Theatre at Carlisle Fringe

When do I ever get to Carlisle Fringe? Never. So this year I made sure I caught Hymns for Robots, at The Old Fire Station. I hadn’t even realised that Delia Derbyshire had lived in Cumbria. Some interesting interpretations of interviews with Derbyshire and quite a few magical moments of sound, though I would have…

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