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...rawk, rawk, till you drop..., 19 Nov 2009

Hey everybody! It's Tommy Heart. You know. The singer out of Zeno and Fair Warning. Well, now he's back with album number 5 (already?) from Soul Doctor. And it's really good.

Original drummer Zacky is back for the ride, and this is an excellent mix of their earlier rawk material, and their later, more melodic work. Naturally, it's the former that gets me all hot and bothered, and tunes like 'Lightning And Thunder', 'Love Crashed Down (Boom Down)' and 'Welcome To The Party' are already firmly lodged in my cerebral cortex.

The big, killer, ballad is 'Times Of Yesterday', a guaranteed number one in 1987, but wherever you look, this album is an absolute rock belter.

...competent electro-goth..., 17 Nov 2009

Lahannya started off life in the underground world of industrial rock, but recent releases have seen her moving in an electro-goth direction, something that continues on this latest release.

Delightfully, it's a futuristic (ish) concept album telling the tale of a resistance leader fighting against the enslaving technology he helped create. Something, the guys behind Twitter should be thinking about sharpish.

Musically, it has a lot in common with bands like my beloved Collide, and the musicians make an enjoyably loud racket on tunes like 'Dying Inside' and 'Burn', as well as more evocative numbers like 'Open Your Eyes'. Shame then that Lahannya can't sing. At… Read more

...nearly but not quite..., 13 Nov 2009

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Well that took some doing, but I've finally got to the end of my first Ruth Rendell novel, all eight CDs of it. Obviously, I'd heard of both her and Inspector Wexford, but I'd never taken the plunge before. However, in the end, this was worth it.

The first half of the book I found to be quite slow and uninvolving as Wexford reacquaints himself with a suspected murderer from years gone by. There's also a subplot about arranged marriages that feels as though it should be in another story, and could easily have been removed, with no great loss. However, with Wexford reminiscences about his younger days quite endearing, and a story that picks up the pace in the second half, Ms… Read more