The Sigla Blog

Well I blogged about Booker Longlist, now here’s the final six - Zadie Smith, Ali Smith,

1. Find a new striker NOW. Clinton Morrison is not World class and was incompetent and useless last night. He never looked like scoring. He never looks like doing anything. One of his two ‘attempts’ on goal was actually a total miskick when shown in the replay.
2. Clone Roy Keane - it looked […]

Bush’s many detractors haven’t wasted a moment in dissing him over the response to the New Orleans disaster, but I wondered how long it would take Michael Moore to surface. As it happens, it took a few days - almost as long as the Bush administration took in acting on the disaster - for him […]

It always seems to happen. Just when you’re down-sizing your workload to go away, a heap of stuff comes up. All of it good, mind, but I’m as busy as a nineteenth century chimney sweep so no time to blog in any great detail today. I also had to pass on contributing to round two […]

Right, that’s me off to the Electric Picnic. If the traffic isn’t mental, I should make Matthew Herbert at 2pm. Otherwise, I can’t wait for Kraftwerk, The Flaming Lips, Goldfrapp, Roisin Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, The Redneck Manifesto, Mercury Rev, Nick Cave and my pal Mr. Scruff.

I heard from someone who […]

Just got this from the folk at the IFI. It’s the 50th Cork Film Festival this year (Cork is also European City of Culture) and a rare 1936 MGM film based on Michael Collin’s life and his affair with Lady Lavery will screen at the festival.

Entitled ‘Beloved Enemy’, the film stars Merle […]

Someone passed on the current issue of Village to me this morning and I spotted something which looks like a glaring omission (well, to me and anyone who likes football that is). On page 44 of the magazine, at the end of the Sports section, there is a digest/table of sporting events for the […]

Oh happy day. According to the lovely Pete from EMI, a new Kate Bush double album is on the way. Entitled ‘Aerial’ it will be released on November 7th and is preceeded by a single, ‘King of the Mountain’, on October 24th. She is notoriously guarded about her private life so there’s no official […]