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10 Stupidest Things About Science Fiction Posted by Gargleman

"Klingons and humans? Make babies they surely cannot!"

I love science fiction. I do. I’m a massive geek and could happily watch nowt but scifi for the rest of my life – but there’s just a few really stupid things that so much science fiction TV and movies get really up my nose. › Continue reading

Eli Records. Strictly Roots. Posted by zenzenzen

Bacup!

Here @Nomad we all favour the homebrew…

Homemade, DIY, Bodged, On-a-shoestring, Done-for-the-love… it’s why we started Nomad and what keeps it running!

And that’s why we love Eli Records , “A small UK independent label with a feel for the unusual and the irreverent”.

Based in the Northwest and holstering a roster of over ten bands and tons of releases, this is a label that is not afraid to give all music a place in the sun, and not just the daily average of dubstep or DnB. In fact, Eli seems to focus more on genres that the UK has been weak for a while with.

Case in point is the venerable and charming, Mrs. Cakehead , whose Lancashire Dancehall sound has been pumping out of our stereo for some time now. Cakehead keeps it real with his homeroots style of Bacup Toasting, and ditches the cliches to evangelize about the real issues in life like the demise of Electronic Reggae, Homebrew that frazzles the brain and the Crime in Criminal Damages… after all, ” I believe I don’t need policing… or do I? ”

Check out these teasers of Bacup Dub & Dancehall :

Cheerful and CheesyCheerful and Cheesy

Don’t Mess With Mrs CDon’t Mess With Mrs C

Funky Dread NowtFunky Dread Nowt

On a RollOn a RollVIDEO

And pop over to YouTube for the latest Mrs. Cakehead LIVE videos! The ‘Dub be Good to Me’ Live is a glimpse of future material for sure!

Strictly Roots Son! As a small label based in what looks like a shed, the music is only available on CD at the moment (with vinyl coming as soon as they sell something!), but don’t let that put you off, as each CD is lovingly hand potato-printed and unique to you at a very good price!

Now go shopping* you filthy pirates! Support the independents!

* also available from Piccadilly Records MCR!

Amazing flickr account Posted by Gargleman

There’s a chap called Marcus who has an amazing flickr account full of weird stuff like this. Go there: its amazing.

Hat tip to the lovely Dangerous Minds.

Best cancelled TV shows: Life Posted by Gargleman

Life is an American cop show with a difference. Or rather, it WAS a cop show with a difference, because like many of the best shows, it got cancelled after 2 seasons and is currently dying a second slow death in the UK on ITV3.

What was different about Life? › Continue reading

Princess Peach wants your BRAINS Posted by Gargleman

"Princess! Good to see you! Have you lost weight?"

Even Mario’s Princess Peach can’t help but get in on the zombie action these days, with a little help from Agent Melon.

Sibylle Baier – I Lost Something in the Hills Posted by Gargleman

Apparently Sibylle Baier made some very lovely folk music in Germany in the 1970s, and she was even in a Wim Wenders film, though let’s not hold that against her. Then she moved to America, abandoning acting and singing to raise a family.

Thirty years later, the original reel-to-reel recordings of her album Colour Green have been retrieved and released by Orange Twin…

…in 2006, or something, alright, so I’m a bit late, but I just had to post this a link to this somewhere and I’ve forgotten how to get Facebook to make YouTube links work inline. If I ever knew.