This Friday ‘Built For Speed’ kicks off 2016 with a selection of favourite tracks from across the decades. There’ll be classics from The Replacements, Bob Dylan, The Kills, Dinosaur Jr and many others. We also pay tribute to two great rockers who left us this week: Stevie Wright and Lemmy. On the movie front we look at two new films
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ CJ tells us all about the Chris Cornell gig from last Friday at the Palais. We also take a look at two new release films: Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea which tells the story that inspired Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick and gambling addiction drama Mississippi Grind which stars Ben Mendelsohn.
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed” we hop in the time machine and journey to the 1980’s to reveal that amid the horrible hair bands, electro thwack drums and wimpy keyboards there was actually some very fine music. We’ll feature tracks from The Smiths, The Pixies, The Stones Roses, The Replacements and many more. We’ll also take a look at
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’, James Bond is back! We take a look at the latest Bond film Spectre, we talk about our favourite and least favourite Bond films and play our favourite Bond theme songs. For something a little different we also review low-budget Indian drama The Crow’s Egg. There’s also plenty of fine indie and classic rock
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we celebrate that traditional Australian festival, Halloween. There’ll be plenty of spooky songs from the likes of Danzig, Roky Erickson, Deep Purple and many others. We also tell you whether two horror movies currently in our cinemas, Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension and The Last Witch Hunter will have you quaking in your boots or snoring in your
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at two big crime biopics just released in our cinemas. Legend recounts the infamous activities of London’s Kray brothers while Black Mass depicts James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s rein as crime lord of South Boston in the 1970’s. We’ll let you know how they stack up against the gangster classics such as
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