(Written for http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/)
Questions have been raised over parliamentary security after a police officer was injured in an “incredibly violent” attack just outside the Commons chamber.
CS gas was used to subdue the 40 year-old man, who is alleged to be a director at a London publishers.
Reports say that he had been attending a party hosted by Conservative MP Eric Pickles and was supposed to have been escorted around the building. However, the man was found having an arguement with two other people just outside the doors to the Commons chamber, where a debate was going on.
A policeman asked him for his ID at which point, a source on The Times website says, “completely lost it and went berserk”.
He was subsequently arrested and is now in custody at a Central London police station.
This news comes comes just days before the G20 summit, which is expected to attract thousands of protestors to the city. Questions are, therefore, being asked about how the guests managed to slip past security unnoticed
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Slumdog Millionaire
If you haven’t heard of Slumdog Millionaire by now, odds on you must have been shipwrecked on some remote island somewhere - the film has won no less than eight Oscars, including Best Motion Picture, as well as seven BAFTAs.
Based on a novel by Vikas Swarup, the film follows Jamal (Dev Patel), a teenager from the slums of Mumbai who enters the Indian version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ After being arrested for cheating he tells police officers his life story, in an attempt to explain how he knew the answers.
Transitions between the past and present could have made the story complicated and jittery, and it is a testament to Simon Beaufoy’s screenplay that is not the case. The plot is compelling, though predictable – the love story between Jamal and Latika (Freida Pinto) in particular – and gives an eye-opening view of life in India’s slums.
The trailers do not do this movie justice. I was expecting to see a romanticised and unmemorable film. I was wrong. Slumdog Millionaire is a classic that deserves every one of the awards it has been given.
Based on a novel by Vikas Swarup, the film follows Jamal (Dev Patel), a teenager from the slums of Mumbai who enters the Indian version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ After being arrested for cheating he tells police officers his life story, in an attempt to explain how he knew the answers.
Transitions between the past and present could have made the story complicated and jittery, and it is a testament to Simon Beaufoy’s screenplay that is not the case. The plot is compelling, though predictable – the love story between Jamal and Latika (Freida Pinto) in particular – and gives an eye-opening view of life in India’s slums.
The trailers do not do this movie justice. I was expecting to see a romanticised and unmemorable film. I was wrong. Slumdog Millionaire is a classic that deserves every one of the awards it has been given.
Monday, 30 March 2009
Wonderwool: Oasis singer set to take on the world of fashion
(Written for http://buzz.bournemouth.ac.uk/)
March 19th 2009
He may not be well-known for his fashion-sense, but Oasis front-man Liam Gallagher is set to release his own range of clothes, which will be sold online and in a number of - as yet unnamed - high-street stores.
The collection, named ‘Pretty Green’ after a song by The Jam, is to be released in June and will include shoes, knitwear and versions of the artist’s trademark parka.
The singer said on Prettygreen.com, “clothes and music are my passion. I’m not here to rip anyone off and I’m not doing it for the money either. I’m doing it cuz [sic] there’s a lack of stuff out there of the things I would wear”
Gallagher will design the clothes alongside a team of industry professionals.
March 19th 2009
He may not be well-known for his fashion-sense, but Oasis front-man Liam Gallagher is set to release his own range of clothes, which will be sold online and in a number of - as yet unnamed - high-street stores.
The collection, named ‘Pretty Green’ after a song by The Jam, is to be released in June and will include shoes, knitwear and versions of the artist’s trademark parka.
The singer said on Prettygreen.com, “clothes and music are my passion. I’m not here to rip anyone off and I’m not doing it for the money either. I’m doing it cuz [sic] there’s a lack of stuff out there of the things I would wear”
Gallagher will design the clothes alongside a team of industry professionals.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Esser - Satisfied (single)
(A report for Nerve)
The second release from solo singer Ben Esser, who is due to release his debut album – Brave Face - at the end of April.
The single has a distinctly Latin American influence, with a piano playing an old-style tango and the sounds of clapping accompanying the singer’s vocals. So, even though the lyrics are pessimistic – he laments how “even when you say ‘I love you’, she’s still not satisfied” – the song still has a summery feel to it.
Esser is about to embark on a UK-wide tour and will appear at Thekla in Bristol on April 23rd and Southampton Joiners Arms on April 24th. He will also appear at a number of festivals over the summer.
The second release from solo singer Ben Esser, who is due to release his debut album – Brave Face - at the end of April.
The single has a distinctly Latin American influence, with a piano playing an old-style tango and the sounds of clapping accompanying the singer’s vocals. So, even though the lyrics are pessimistic – he laments how “even when you say ‘I love you’, she’s still not satisfied” – the song still has a summery feel to it.
Esser is about to embark on a UK-wide tour and will appear at Thekla in Bristol on April 23rd and Southampton Joiners Arms on April 24th. He will also appear at a number of festivals over the summer.
Elle Milano - Meanwhile in Hollywood (EP)
(A report for Nerve)
Meanwhile in Hollywood is the second single from the Brighton-based rock group, who split up in October 2008, and is taken from their album Acres of Dead Space Cadets.
The title track starts off well, with an upbeat chorus and a good use of synths, but is then ruined by the lead singer Adam Crisp’s attempt at a rap.
The second track, Ringtone Advertising Director has yet another appalling display of rapping at the start, as the lead singer chants about a car accident victim. But, once the song picks up and the band finally makes full use of their guitarist and drummer, it is by far the loudest - and the most impressive - of the three tracks.
Showroom Furniture, unfortunately, sees the band slip into a bland, uninteresting style, with no chorus to speak of – just the same tune over and over again.
If Elle Milano had stuck to their strength – rock music – then Meanwhile in Hollywood could have been a very good CD. Unfortunately Crisp’s rapping and the descent into the slow and boring Showroom Furniture put paid to that – I wouldn’t recommend it.
Meanwhile in Hollywood is the second single from the Brighton-based rock group, who split up in October 2008, and is taken from their album Acres of Dead Space Cadets.
The title track starts off well, with an upbeat chorus and a good use of synths, but is then ruined by the lead singer Adam Crisp’s attempt at a rap.
The second track, Ringtone Advertising Director has yet another appalling display of rapping at the start, as the lead singer chants about a car accident victim. But, once the song picks up and the band finally makes full use of their guitarist and drummer, it is by far the loudest - and the most impressive - of the three tracks.
Showroom Furniture, unfortunately, sees the band slip into a bland, uninteresting style, with no chorus to speak of – just the same tune over and over again.
If Elle Milano had stuck to their strength – rock music – then Meanwhile in Hollywood could have been a very good CD. Unfortunately Crisp’s rapping and the descent into the slow and boring Showroom Furniture put paid to that – I wouldn’t recommend it.
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