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Everything Else / Re: The R.I.P thread...
« Last post by Ghosttrain on July 17, 2026, 12:23:02 PM »Excellent post regarding the death of Barry Dransfield....agree with all your comments .Great obituary in Guardian...R.I.P.
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Everything Else / Re: The R.I.P thread...
« Last post by Winterwulf on July 16, 2026, 08:17:05 PM »Barry Dransfield, fiddler who played on some of the greatest English folk-rock recordings of the early 70s - Morris On, No Roses and the Fiddler's Dream. For my money, one of the best album openings of all time is on Morris On, where he opens playing the calling-on tune solo, then a brief snatch of the following jig, the calling-on again then the whole band kicks in for the jig again - https://youtu.be/D8NMfyPtPOE?si=ABvHTjrYRfYd-88v.
I'm also fond of his singing of "Cuckoo's Nest" off the same album, my parents had it taped onto a C60 cassette for playing in the car when we were on holiday, which meant said song was first on the second side. They only played it when they thought me and my sister were asleep given the lyrical content, but I think we picked it up in our sleep, they were horrified when we both sang the chorus one time: "Some like a girl who is pretty in the face, some like a girl who is slender in the waist, but give me a girl that will wriggle and will twist, at the bottom of the belly lies the cuckoo's nest"
I'm also fond of his singing of "Cuckoo's Nest" off the same album, my parents had it taped onto a C60 cassette for playing in the car when we were on holiday, which meant said song was first on the second side. They only played it when they thought me and my sister were asleep given the lyrical content, but I think we picked it up in our sleep, they were horrified when we both sang the chorus one time: "Some like a girl who is pretty in the face, some like a girl who is slender in the waist, but give me a girl that will wriggle and will twist, at the bottom of the belly lies the cuckoo's nest"
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Trades & Swaps / Castleton spare ticket (Fri/Sat) for sale
« Last post by Murdock on July 16, 2026, 11:05:47 AM »I have tickets for Castleton (1 single ticket for Friday, 1 single ticket for Saturday) for sale. Although those are single tickets I'd rather sell them together. Price is EUR 94,20 which is what I payed for them in presale.
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Everything Else / Fields of The Nephilim Bootlegs
« Last post by Gaijin on July 09, 2026, 11:50:50 PM »I'm looking for Nephilim live recordings.
Please reach out if you have any old tapes or digital files.
Please reach out if you have any old tapes or digital files.
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Everything Else / Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
« Last post by cthulhu on July 09, 2026, 10:03:03 AM »I had a great time with The Sheep Detectives last night... imagine if you watched the 'Knives Out' movies and thought, 'yeah, it's good but I wish there were more sheep in it?'... well then this is the movie for you!
It's not only funny as heck but it's also got a surprisingly engrossing murder mystery storyline, some Watership Down style horror and even bits that might make you get a lump in the eye and a tear in the throat. Not me, of course, I'm just SO stoic! Obviously...
It's on Amazon Prime, give it a punt, here's the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZI5oM6hWk
I watched it yesterday and found it really entertaining and lovely and very funny, enjoyed that a lot.
I compare it to Hot Fuzz, both being a murder mystery comedy movie, but in comparison The Sheep Detectives is the family friendly version of it, with everything a little toned down or on the other hand Hot Fuzz cranking it up on every level, like action and humour and suspense.
I watched that one a few weeks ago, I liked it, didn't love but it was an enjoyable sci-film with some pretty good laughs in it... just thought the very ending was a big cringe-y...
I know what you mean and it had to be like this in the movie version. In the book there is this whole background of explaining on a scientific level, how this different being and alien and society could be plausible working.
And yes A Fish Called Wanda has to be mentioned here and i would also put it as one of my favourite comedies.
I've never experienced such a passionate response from the audience in a normal theater, but at the Film Festivals i went to, being SciFi and Horror, there were many moments with interactions from the crowd or applause and screams at the end and i remember seeing Kung Pow and the theater went wild and i fell from my chair while laughing with tears in my eyes...love that, it's more of a concert like experience than watching a movie in silence and in 9 out of 10 times, the comments or reactions were adding to the experience instead of distracting, like when people talk or have their mobiles on during silent or suspense moments.
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Everything Else / Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
« Last post by Master Ray on July 06, 2026, 10:39:10 PM »I watched that one a few weeks ago, I liked it, didn't love but it was an enjoyable sci-film with some pretty good laughs in it... just thought the very ending was a big cringe-y...
Just watching A Fish Called Wanda for the first time in a good long while... one of my fave comedies ever, I remember seeing this on opening night at a packed cinema in Stoke... one of the best audiences reactions ever, I know UK folks can be a bit reticent when it comes to stuff like this but the the audience reaction was insane, massive laughter throughout and the only time, in decades of cinema-going, where I saw the whole audience broke out in unanimous applause as the end credits came up...
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Everything Else / Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...
« Last post by cthulhu on July 06, 2026, 05:52:24 PM »I will put this one here, though it is not a comedy, but it is very funny and i had great fun watching it, some big laughs and a very cool emotional story. I was looking for this for a long time, had read the book years ago and when i heard it was going to be a movie soon, i was thrilled but also sceptical, of course. I wanted to see it in the cinema, but couldn't make it and was waiting for a blu release and was suprised, that you can already watch it on prime.
Project Hail Mary - 2026, Phil Lord and Chris Miller
If you can, read the book first. I'm a fan of the Andy Weir books, The Martian with Matt Damon also was an adaptation of one of his books and Hail Mary is also SciFi, almost Hard Fiction and the book is very clever and cool and the movie just cannot transport all the scientific stuff. But it delivers the story and it's humour and its emotional human feeling stuff really cool and it is very, very cool that they used animatronics instead of cgi, which emphasizes the emotional parts of the story. Works great.
Project Hail Mary - 2026, Phil Lord and Chris Miller
If you can, read the book first. I'm a fan of the Andy Weir books, The Martian with Matt Damon also was an adaptation of one of his books and Hail Mary is also SciFi, almost Hard Fiction and the book is very clever and cool and the movie just cannot transport all the scientific stuff. But it delivers the story and it's humour and its emotional human feeling stuff really cool and it is very, very cool that they used animatronics instead of cgi, which emphasizes the emotional parts of the story. Works great.
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New Model Army / Re: Eyes Get Used To The Darkness = No Rest 2.0 ?
« Last post by cthulhu on July 06, 2026, 05:38:41 PM »Well, i still have my theory about EGUTTD is hinting to No Rest and i don't even want it proven, i want it to stay it a theory... and i like the discussion here...and the more i think about it..it more and more evolves..or dissolves.. 
"Now all is militant beats and tribal flags and everything just for show
When no one listens much to what you say, then all you’re going to say is ‘no’..."
..even this delivery of the "no!" feels to me like a statement hinting to, well i'll say to "something", to leave it open, but it feels like..don't know how to express it..like a comment to a meta context..
yeah, sounds weird maybe...
I feel like Justin has developed over the years his own lyrical style, you could say his own poetic language even, and this to me feels like he's taking full use from his toolbox he has developed. So my theory is not about using some musical elements, but creating a full conscious level behind the song, hinting to past elements, not only No Rest.
Anyway...interesting thoughts presented here and the connection of Yes to G&G ist astonishing and Guillaumes Idea of David Gilmour borrowed something as part of a musical revenge..is cool..and a little insane
"Now all is militant beats and tribal flags and everything just for show
When no one listens much to what you say, then all you’re going to say is ‘no’..."
..even this delivery of the "no!" feels to me like a statement hinting to, well i'll say to "something", to leave it open, but it feels like..don't know how to express it..like a comment to a meta context..
yeah, sounds weird maybe...
I feel like Justin has developed over the years his own lyrical style, you could say his own poetic language even, and this to me feels like he's taking full use from his toolbox he has developed. So my theory is not about using some musical elements, but creating a full conscious level behind the song, hinting to past elements, not only No Rest.
Anyway...interesting thoughts presented here and the connection of Yes to G&G ist astonishing and Guillaumes Idea of David Gilmour borrowed something as part of a musical revenge..is cool..and a little insane
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New Model Army / Re: Eyes Get Used To The Darkness = No Rest 2.0 ?
« Last post by Master Ray on July 05, 2026, 10:57:44 PM »Blimey this topic started off as a nice opinion on how "no rest" has influenced later career tracks and somehow turned into who have NMA ripped off!...my fault to an extent with afew examples I put in (mainly to add colour and context tbh)...anyhow the reality is everyone influences everybody and there is very little original musical innovation these days..it's really becoming a photocopy of a photocopy generally.
On a different note though I have to say I had never heard discharges version of " get me out"...not sure why they made up their own vastly inferior lyrics and vocals and took the hook out!
Threads can get derailed when other ideas come into play...
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New Model Army / Re: List of NMA songs covered
« Last post by Guillaume on July 05, 2026, 10:43:47 AM »Cavalera last week in a Lyon concert, in France:
"We listened to a lot of New Model Army at the time...you guys like New Model Army?...this is called THE HUNT!":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WxnG4DZy2U
"We listened to a lot of New Model Army at the time...you guys like New Model Army?...this is called THE HUNT!":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WxnG4DZy2U