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- Joy Division: The Grant Gee documentary
- Ok, so for those who don't know the Encounters documentary film festival is on at Hyde Park in Johannesburg at the moment and is on its way to Cape Town after that. The pick of the festival in my opinion is Grant Gee's documentary on Joy Division. I watched Read More...
- Shine A Light
- So last night I trekked all the way out to Monte Casino, an area I would normally avoid like the plague. The reason, I had tickets to see a premier screening of the new Martin Scorsese film Shine A Light . The film documents two shows on the Rolling Stones Read More...
- The National to release DVD and Bonus EP in May
- So The National are set to release a DVD next month on the making of their hit 2007 album Boxer . The documentary was made by French director Vincent Moon. The DVD will come packaged with a twelve track bonus CD called The Virginia EP. The track-listing Read More...
- Control: A film by Anton Corbijn
- So thanks to the wonders of the Intaweb and peer-to-peer file sharing, I watched Control last night the Anton Corbijn biopic based on the life of Joy Division front man Ian Curtis. I was anxious really; I did not want to be disappointed. I wasn’t but Read More...
- Flight of the Conchords: New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo
- So last weekend I rented the first series of the Flight of the Conchords television show and man was I in hysterics. For those who haven't heard of them, Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning folk, pop, and comedy band composed of Bret McKenzie Read More...
- Fela Kuti - Music is the Weapon DVD
- So my work colleague lent me this Fela Kuti DVD last week and I've been feeling bad because it's been sitting on my desk at home and I just hadn't found the time to watch it. So last night I sat down with a quart of milk stout to check it out. The verdict, Read More...
- I see you, up their starting fires or how I fell in love with The Go-Betweens
- To say The Go-Betweens have taken over my life at the moment would be a huge understatement. Quite like Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Tom Waits; my life can be easily divided into halves. My life before the Go-Betweens and my life after. Ultimately when it Read More...
- Screamers?
- So I was asked to review this documentary film that was part of the offering at the recent Encounters film festival, however it was never used, maybe because I didn't have anything positive to say about the film. It's called Screamers and it's all about Read More...
- Gomez - Five men in a Hut
- So Gomez are on a new label with a well-received new album. It was only a matter of time then before the old label decide to have a bit of a cash-in, releasing some of the bands older material. So here it is, the first Gomez DVD, which captures the bands Read More...
- Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Real live roadrunning
- I am convinced! Emmylou Harris is an angel from heaven. I’m not a religious guy, but if there ever was cause to use the phrase, voice of an angel, this is it. Three songs into this DVD, Ms Harris breaks into her song, Red dirt girl and the heavens opened Read More...
- Johnny Cash DVDs
- So today's posts do have a classic rock n roll feel, incorporating John Lennon, George Harrison, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. I thought it would be perfect timing to get these Cash DVDs reviewed with my belated Tribute evening review just around the Read More...
- Lennon & Harrison: Guitar’s gently weep
- For a change this documentary holds up George Harrison as a comparison to John Lennon rather than his songwriting partner Paul McCartney. Beginning with their early days in the Beatles, the film traces how the two songwriters developed as people and honed Read More...
- Pogue Vision – The Pogues
- I was introduced to the Pogues by English radio, while I was slaving away in a hot and sweaty kitchen one December. Not one for Christmas carols, I was relieved when Radio 1 insisted on regularly playing this song about a drunk in New York who gets locked Read More...
- The Cure - Festival 2005
- So after almost thirty years the Cure are still around with their gothic brand of rock. Besides curating touring festivals with hordes of younger bands who draw influence from Robert Smith and Co, the Cure have released quite a few DVDs of late. There Read More...
- Rammstein – VOLKERBALL DVD
- Isolation.tv welcomes back Rick De La Ray who took some time out of his busy schedule to get to grips with the fireball that is Rammstein. Ramstein Air Base (located at 49°26.49′N, 7°35.50′E)… “The piercing aircraft crashed onto the runway, it and its Read More...
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