Ents

Artist: Two Door Cinema Club
Album: Tourist History

If you’re a fan of music gigs and your schedule happens to look relatively free over the next two weeks then there’s only one hangout you should be considering, and that’s Thekla. Not only does it self-describe itself as “possibly the best venue in Bristol” but it’s on a boat! Many of you will already be familiar with the location that multi-tasks as a café, bar, stage and club. Over the next couple weeks a whole string of talented acts will be rocking out for the Bristolian crowd at the popular nightspot.

Don’t Stop Believing: the Hype is Deserved

Having created the world, journeyed through the wilderness, come up with a bewildering array of laws, counted everybody, killed an awful lot of people for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, laid out detailed plans for buildings, fended off attacks from heathens and finally stumbled across a remotely human character, perhaps it is time for a bit of a breather. At the start of Exodus we were more than happy to buy into this nice, slow, Disney-style story about some kid who was abandoned by his parents and who was conveniently raised in a palace by a princess of some sort.

Book: Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Author: Helia Phoenix

As Lady Gaga sashays onto the stage at the Brit Awards to collect her third trophy of the night, I’m sitting comfortably at home in front of the TV, a book resting on my lap. My Tuesday evening read is no Grisham-esque thriller easy to get my teeth into, but - ever so aptly - an exclusive copy of the woman wearing the most strikingly bizarre costume since Bjork sported her infamous swan.

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Perhaps the worst B- Movie ever made. Legendarily bad filmmaker Ed Wood’s masterpiece, featuring aliens who bring the dead back to life in order to wipe out the human race, this film is like three science fiction films all rolled into one, presuming that the rolling process was very damaging to the plot, acting, directing, script, editing, and cinematography.

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

I’ve always been attracted to the weird and unconventional. Call it perversity, call it a warped sense of my own individualism, call it whatever you like, but I can’t ignore that which is challenging, eye-catching and reaction-inducing.

Artist: Wooden Shjips
Album: Vol. 2

Artist: Gary War
Album: New Raytheonport

Film: Un Prophète
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Tahar Rahim

Artist: Owl CIty
Album: Ocean Eyes

Owl City have ballooned out of nowhere with a huge surge towards their new single ‘Fireflies’. You’ll be hearing it on the radio, in shops and some modest remixes in the clubs. If you like the simple electronic beat and the heavy American accent of this single, then I would suggest you look to the album for similar tunes.