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In Dreams (Richard Hawley, City Halls)

• 26 Sep 07
• Written by Chris Ward

Music Live Music

 

Ah, Richard Hawley: the incurable romantic, he of the swooning 50s-style love songs, an oasis of loveliness in a desert of middle-of-the-road dross, and above all...

"Me and Shez wrote this next song for our wives, 'cause we're soft as a bag of tits." 

...a citizen of Sheffield.

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Doing It Right (The Go! Team, ABC)

• 23 Sep 07
• Written by Chris Ward

Music Live Music

The Go! Team's riotous 2004 debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike was a frenetic collage of old-school hip-hop, cheerleader chants and out-and-out noise, produced to sound like a mix tape being played out of the kind of bassless speakers you'd take to the park on sunny days. There are basslines there, but, like the vocals, guitars, drums and everything else, they just become part of the wash of happy bedlam, individual parts almost indistinguishable, the whole thing putting the tin in tinnitus. It sounds like it should be playing over a radio on a summer morning in Sesame Street, provoking nostalgia for times you've never lived through and places you've never been. 

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Chris Vs. Summer - Weeks Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen & Seventeen: The End

• 06 Sep 07
• Written by Chris Ward

Film Film Features

This is it, folks. After four months and, by the end of this article, fourteen films, Chris Vs. Summer is over. I would say until next year, but for now I have no intention of repeating it. At this point I'm petitioning for Steve Vs. Summer. But that's next year. Right now we've got this summer to finish, and there's a proper dark night of the soul and everything to get through before the light at the end of the tunnel. Get ready for the horror of Rush Hour 3 and Evan Almighty, followed by the salvation of The Bourne Ultimatum and Knocked Up. It's like the scary bit at the end of Fantasia, only with Chris Tucker as the big demon and a load of dick jokes instead of the torchlit procession.

 

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