Circus Girl (Best Of Gretchen Peters) - Gretchen Peters

Here for the Party by Gretchen Wilson

Advantages: Play - When you need to get yourself a big "Hell, Yeah!"
Disadvantages: Don't Play - To feminists or lesbians.

I was driving through North Norfolk about five years ago and a track called "Redneck Woman" came on the radio. To hear such a funny song in such an appropriate location stuck in my head and I finally hunted down the album. Gretchen Wilson is a bit like Dolly Parton without the sugar. Aside from the stand-out Redneck anthem she serves us with some excellent, feisty country music from the female (albeit the Christian-American-Redneck female) perspective. Stand-out tracks - "When I think about Cheatin'" is a gorgeous love song with an adulterous counter-current, "Homewrecker" is a lovely bitch-on-bitch diatribe and of course the stompin' "Redneck Woman" which should become a staple of Hen Parties everywhere (and not just North Norfolk). But my favourite is her ode to boozing called "When it Rains (I Pour)". ...

themaninthejar 03.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Here For The Party - Gretchen Wilson

Peter Kaye : volume 1?

Advantages: Funny family chap
Disadvantages: No celeb stuff

. He certainly hints that way at the start of this limited but friendly tome, quipping that ?he feels someday soon someone will knock on his front door and take it all away from him, announcing the money and success was all a big accounting error, your going to have to hand it all back son?. For those who want to know about the best loved comic in Peter Kaye (the man Phil Jupitus will never be) then this book may not be interesting enough to spend your well earnt on. Like the man himself it?s not a remotely celebrity or a parochial journey. At times it reads like his sketches as we learn about his life leading up to his first paid stand-up through those familiar stories and routines. If it?s the time when he worked in an ESSO station handing out Tiger Tokens or his learning days at Salford University (cough!), everything is laid out in ...

thedevilinme 26.11.2009 (13.12.2009) · Read full review
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Review of The Sound of Laughter - Peter Kay

With friends like Peter's . . .

Advantages: Easy watching, some good acting and great vocal performances
Disadvantages: Acting from some of the cast is a bit over-the-top

This is one of those films that nobody else seems to have heard of and - up until a few years ago - neither had I. Indeed, I have my passion for 1980s pop music to thank for my knowledge that this film even exists. For reasons I don't even remember, I came across a website listing the lyrics to Tears For Fears' mid-eighties hit Everybody Wants To Rule The World and whichever page I viewed mentioned a variety of films, TV programmes and albums that the song featured in. One of these was Peter's Friends . . . so I admit it, I first watched this film because one of my favourite songs was part of the soundtrack! (I can sometimes be a bit more shallow than other people believe . . . actually there are quite a few 1970s/1980s songs in here, which I think suits the mood of the film.) In a way, I find it surprising that Peter's Friends seems to ...

KateHurst 12.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Peter's Friends (DVD)