Whatever happened to Fay Wray?
Whilst I have nothing against remakes per se, I can't help but have a bad feeling that the proposed reboot of The Rocky Horror Picture Show will be an anodyne waste of celluloid; the show's creator wants nothing to do it and the movie is co-funded by Sky Movies (who don't have that great a track record producing their own content).
To be honest I'm not exactly full of antici.... pation at what they're going to serve up. It's cliché I know but if it ain't broke... well, you get the idea.
*koff*
Moving swiftly on, I've plucked the following from the back pages of this week's NME for your delectation and delight:
iglu & hartly @ Komedia, Brighton - 17/09/2008
le sac v's pip @ Student Union, Guildford - 19/10/2008
le sac v's pip @ The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth - 29/10/2008
Neon Neon @ Digital, Brighton - 30/10/2008
Scouting For Girls and The Days @ Solent Hall, Bournemouth - 01/11/2008
Scouting For Girls and The Days @ The Brighton Centre - 03/11/2008
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Brighton Centre - 23/11/2008
Scouting For Girls and The Days @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 23/11/2008
Stereophonics @ The Brighton Centre - 16/12/2008
Stereophonics @ BIC, Bournemouth - 17/12/2008
I'll endeavour to add the above gigs onto the mighty SoMC Events Calendar at some point over the next few days (but chances are I may find myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful beer and, as a result, waste a lot of time wondering how I got there). As is oft stated hereabouts the Events Calendar is (when I pull my finger out and update the darned thing) a useful tool for the average gig monkey about town, being full of local gigs for local people. Like these...
Red Hunnie, Snowy The Comical Guitar Man and Cool Banana @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 14/08/2008
Red Light Thieves, Nicotine Smile and Saxon Sunday @ The Railway, Winchester - 14/08/2008
Bex Marshall @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 14/08/2008
Tubelord, Blakfish, Secondsmile and Venice Ahoy @ Hamptons, Southampton - 14/08/2008
The Boy Will Drown, This Is Colour and The Argent Dawn @ The Railway Rifle Club, Portsmouth - 14/08/2008
Open Room, Burn The Fleet and Medison @ The Joiners, Southampton - 14/08/2008
The Reelists, Munroe Effect and No Hope In Never @ The Fat Fox, Portsmouth - 14/08/2008
Superlungs, 24 Hour Affair and Vier @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 14/08/2008
Sarah Saville @ The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth - 14/08/2008
The Family @ The Platform Tavern, Southampton - 14/08/2008
Andy Broad, Chris Ricketts and Della Perett's Sweetedge @ Kings Theatre Studio 2, Portsmouth - 15/08/2008
Jon Walsh Blues Band and The Riverside Blues Band @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 15/08/2008
Superfly @ The Admiral Drake, Portsmouth - 15/08/2008
Click Voodoo @ The Firehouse, Southampton - 15/08/2008
FreefallFelix, The White Coats and Splendid Eddie @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 15/08/2008
Errors, Kumiss and Death of Cinema Club @ The Joiners, Southampton - 15/08/2008
The Sex Pistols Experience (tribute) @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 15/08/2008
The Queens (tribute) @ The Brook, Southampton - 15/08/2008
Kojak's Revenge @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 15/08/2008
Kolo, The Ramblings and The Bizets @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 15/08/2008
Justin Sullivan & Dean White (New Model Army) and New York Anxiety Attack @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 16/08/2008
Rufus Stone @ The Brook, Southampton - 16/08/2008
Black Bart @ The RMA Tavern, Portsmouth - 16/08/2008
Major Melon and James Blake @ The Square Brewery, Petersfield - 16/08/2008
The Legendary Derek @ The Frog & Frigate, Southampton - 16/08/2008
Bigtopp and The White Coats @ Havant Arts Centre - 16/08/2008
Sam McCarthy @ The Golden Eagle, Southsea - 16/08/2008
Zhain, Karalta and Moonshine Crows @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 16/08/2008
Asylum Seekers @ The Railway, Gosport - 16/08/2008
Cast The Bones, Shards and Synbiote @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 16/08/2008
Fei Comodo, Twisted By Design and Armored Hi-Fi @ The Joiners, Southampton - 16/08/2008
The Vatican Cellars, Hamilton Yarns and Animal Magic Tricks @ Komedia, Brighton - 16/08/2008
Your Twenties and Jazica @ Lennons, Southampton - 16/08/2008
The Acid Test, The Blue Screen of Death and This Is Fiction @ The Railway, Winchester - 16/08/2008
A Wilhelm Scream, Brides and Our Time Down Here @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 16/08/2008
Endsweck and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? @ The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth - 16/08/2008
The Soul Liberators and Ran-Dee & Shay @ The Soul Cellar, Southampton - 16/08/2008
You Me At Six @ The Opera House, Bournemouth - 17/08/2008
Stu & Denovo @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 17/08/2008
Headquarters, Bromancer and Dethscalator @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 17/08/2008
Moral Sense, Typheous and Kaleb @ The Joiners, Southampton - 17/08/2008
Doghouse @ The Bugle, Botley - 17/08/2008
Bob Cheevers @ The Platform Tavern, Southampton - 17/08/2008
Django @ The Bandstand, Southsea - 17/08/2008 (free afternoon entertainment)
Andrew Gordon and Ian Scarbro @ The RMA Tavern, Southampton - 17/08/2008
Sarah Saville @ The Phoenix, Portsmouth - 17/08/2008
Voodoo Glow Skulls @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 17/08/2008
Caz Batten, Jay Munday and Rossco @ Drift, Southsea - 17/08/2008
Solent City Jazzmen @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 18/08/2008
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 18/08/2008
Selfish C**t, Castillo and The Sinnicks @ The Joiners, Southampton - 18/08/2008
The Last Shadow Puppets and Ipso Facto @ The Guildhall, Portsmouth - 19/08/2008
Jack & Denovo @ The Hobbit, Southampton - 19/08/2008
Abraxa, Sheilatakeabow, Sunset Mission and The Devil Conspiracy @ The Railway Rifle Club, Portsmouth - 19/08/2008
Selfish C**t, The Guillotines and Le Band Extraordinaire @ The Freebutt, Brighton - 19/08/2008
The Blackout, Attack! Attack! and Dead Mile @ The Joiners, Southampton - 19/08/2008
Ghosts of Pegasus Bridge, Only Heroes Die and Finely Tuned Assassins @ The Railway, Winchester - 19/08/2008
Matt Knowles, Max Edermaniger and William Stuart @ The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth - 19/08/2008
Go Vegas, Plagues and Anatomy Of Me @ The Railway, Winchester - 20/08/2008
Soulfly @ Concorde 2, Brighton - 20/08/2008
The Light Divided, In like Flynn, The Architects and Pancake Eating Freaks @ The Railway Rifle Club, Portsmouth - 20/08/2008
Steve Hampton @ The Square Brewery, Petersfield - 20/08/2008
Go: Audio, Paige and Goodbye Stereo @ The Joiners, Southampton - 20/08/2008
Smack La @ Little Johnny Russell's, Portsmouth - 20/08/2008
Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds @ The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth - 21/09/2008
Richie Havens @ The Brook, Southampton - 10/10/2008
The Datsuns @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 22/10/2008
Mari Wilson @ The Kings Theatre, Southsea - 28/10/2008
The Damned @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 15 & 16/11/2008
Delays @ The Brook, Southampton - 14/12/2008
UK Subs @ The Talking Heads, Southampton - 28/11/2008
Little Johnny Russell's hosts the second of its Summer Parties this Saturday, 16th August, celebrating local club-night Sumo's 4th birthday. Joining the Sumo DJs behind at the decks at the Albert Road venue this time around will be Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac. Doors open 2000, tickets are £5 in advance.
Waster serves up another large helping of the best indie/dance/alternative/rock in town this week, again courtesy of the Southsea Mafia DJs, in Portsmouth's Envy nightclub. Doors open at 2200 tomorrow night, Thursday 14th August, with entrance £2 before 2230 (with guest-list), £4 before 2300 and £5 after (there's an A-level foam party next door in Liquid, hence the one-off price rise). More information, including how to get your name on the guest list, can be found on the Facebook event page.
Hipshaker celebrates its 10th birthday this Saturday, 16th August, with special guest DJ Eddie Piller joining the residents at The Wedgewood Rooms for an evening of classic 60s funk and soul. Doors open at 2130, with FREE admission before 2300 (£5 after).
Heat eleven of The Wedgewood Rooms' Showcase 08 competition takes place on Wednesday, 20th August, featuring In Darklight, Brassneck, Surfless and Tainted Grace. The bands will be trying to impress the audience and the panel of judges, with a set of 25 minutes or less, in order to win through to the next round. Tickets are £4, available from the bands and the venue.
Roger Courtney's Open Mike Club this week features guest performances from south coast five-piece Dielle and local alternative rockers Thinking For Tuesday. The music starts at 2000, with the Open Mike session following the guest artists from 2200-2330. Admission is FREE and doors open at The Barn at The Milton Arms at 1900 tomorrow, Thursday 14th August.
And that's me done for another week; where does the time go eh? Today I have mostly been listening to Guillemots, The Mountain Goats and a wee bit of McAlmont & Butler. Be sure to join me next week when I'll be hypnotizing chickens.
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