Film review: MACHETE KILLS, from Built For Speed

With their homage to 1960’s and 70’s Mexploitation movies, grind house cinema and ultra-violent 1980’s video nasties, Robert Rodriguez Machete films should be outrageous thrill rides and  rollicking pop-cultural parodies that push the boundaries of popular taste.  Unfortunately, Machete and now its sequel Machete Kills wind up as predictable, juvenile, occasionally grotesque but emotionally inert throwaway action films.  Like Machete,

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Best Closing Album Tracks on Radio Ga Ga 04/06/11

You may recall a few weeks ago when Radio Ga Ga featured two hours of great opening album tracks? If not, you probably had something better to do. We’ve now gone to the end of some great albums and pulled some of the great closing album tracks.  The Sex Pistols have a crack at the record company that dumped them, Human League’s best song closes

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Great sax on Radio Ga Ga 07/05/11

The saxophone has featured in some of the biggest and best pop hits over the years.  The 70’s gave us “Born To Run” & “Baker Street”, the 80’s had “Who Can It Be Now” & “Out Of Mind Out Of Sight” and Jimmy Barnes used saxophone on “Little Darling” in the 90’s. Hear the greatest sax players in popular music – Kirk Pengilly from INXS, Spandau Ballet’s Steve

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Life songs on Radio Ga Ga 23/04/11

Easter is just around the corner and it is time when many reflect on their life.  On Easter Saturday the 23rd of April, Radio Ga Ga will feature two hours of songs with life in the title.  Time of Your Life, Life Is A Highway, Back In The High Life and many more.  Join host Shaun Stokie for life in the fast lane

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