Advantages: A great read! Disadvantages: A little short!
THE FRONT
MANDASUE HELLER
INTRODUCTION
?The Front?, was the first novel from Mandasue Heller and was published in 2002.
Ms Heller moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in a notorious rough area of the city, working as a singer in bands playing on the local pubs and clubs circuit. After a vicious attack on her home she decided to try to fulfil her ambition of becoming a writer.
She had always enjoyed reading crime novels so she wrote about what she knew, about life on the rough estates of Manchester.
Mandasue Heller is billed as being very much like Martina Cole, and I do agree with this comment.
THE STORY
?The Front? starts with Mal, Ged, Sam and Lee, four old friends, who have decided to make some easy money by robbing their local supermarket, on a Manchester estate ...
Advantages: Erm... Disadvantages: He never seems to get eaten by a lion escaped from Belfast Zoo
the UK, voted the top women's choice for the next Indiana Jones, and gets written up as 'James Bond...in an anorak!'' Sometimes, this stuff just writes itself.
And finally...''Born Survivor: Bear Grylls', airs in the UK.' And here's where we tie up with my opening paragraph...
Bear's show started airing in 2006, and it wasn't long before quizzical expressions were being cast in the general direction of its veracity. Have a quick look at this article from the Daily Mail, the sort of publication that would normally love such an obvious Aryan poster boy as 'Bear'...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470155/How-Bear-Grylls-Born-Survivor-roughed--hotels.html
(To summarise...'Born Survivor' is found to have been deeply misleading).
And then the fallout...this time from the BBC...
(The Discovery Channel and Channel 4 vow to make sure ...
Advantages: A return to good old rock'n'roll Disadvantages: Absolutely None
"I couldn't stand stuff like Nirvana and Pearl Jam....to me that was real slit wrists music." ~ Nic Cester
This sums up what Jet are all about; they don't make moody, angst ridden grunge far from it. Describing the rise of grunge as their "worst nightmare". They have brought back proper rock'n'roll. Growing up in Melbourne, the band are a four piece made up of Nic Cester on guitar and vocals, Chris Cester on drums, Cameron Muncey on guitar and Mark Wilson on bass. They have been influenced by the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Who, T-Rex and The Faces. Their passion for good old rock and roll shines through in their debut album "Get Born". They played a few local gigs, due to the success of The Vines record companied where eager to get their hands on Jet. In the end they signed to "Elektra" and set about recording their first album ...
x_helix_x 01.03.2005
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