RETURN TO YOUTH – LIVE SUNDAY SESSION

RETURN TO YOUTH are this Sundays (February 24th) Live Sunday Sessions guest. An irrepressibly-catchy alternative-pop trio consisting of Marites (vocals/keys), Matt (guitar), and Alan (drums) giving life to their original, melodic creations using fresh, vibrant shapes and rhythms , that come from the heart.  With a diversity of rhythm, catchy melodies, and story-like lyrics often based on observation; each song

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VIOLINS IN ROCK ON RADIO GA GA

PLEASE NOTE:- THIS WEEKS RADIO GA GA WILL BE AN ANDRE’ RIEU FREE ZONE   This week on Radio Ga Ga our theme will take on a bit of class with that rarest of rock instruments….the violin. Whilst used rarely in rock music it always makes fr an interesting track as you will hear this Saturday morning from 10am. Bands

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Film review: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, from Built For Speed

Clearly encouraged by the phenomenal success of the Twilight series, writer director Richard La Grevanese tries to capture that lucrative mix of teen romance and supernatural horror in his adaptation of Kami Garcia’s novel Beautiful Creatures.  For some this will be a daunting prospect as the Twilight films weren’t exactly artistic triumphs.   Thankfully, Beautiful Creatures undercuts the typical tedious po-faced

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Film review: AMOUR, from Built For Speed

Michael Hanneke’s Amour is a grim Bergmanesque story of two elderly people confronting mortality, human frailty and agonising moral choices. Emmanuel Riva and Jean Louis Trintignant play Anna and Georges an older Parisienne couple seemingly enjoying a life of financially secure retirement. When Anna begins to exhibit odd behaviour it becomes apparent she has had a stroke.  As her condition

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Film review: ANNA KARENINA, from Built For Speed

Anna Karenina is the latest production for Working Title the company who are best known for very British romantic comedies like Love Actually and Bridget Jones Diary. While more serious in tone than any of those films, this take on Leo Tolstoy’s romantic epic set in imperial Russia is still a quirky one. What first strikes us about this version

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