Advantages: Fantastic "comeback", instantly appealing Disadvantages: The price of CDs!
Two opinions in a row with no alcohol content but be comforted, I?m drinking a large glass of Rose D?Anjou as I write!
On to the important stuff ? as many of you will know I love THE DAMNED with a passion lasting over 20 years now so this opinion is going to be favourably biased. I also saw them play live again for the thirty-somethingth time just before Christmas and they seemed so tight, together and fresh, especially with this new material on the set-list, it was like seeing them for the first time again.
?Grave Disorder?, released in August 2001, is The Damned?s first new studio album for umpteen years, there have been numerous live and best of compilations in the intervening years but very little fresh material. Before getting hold of this album I was a little dubious ? were they flogging a dead horse? Have they ...
Advantages: McDermid is undoubtedly a great writer, and it shows Disadvantages: Just a few too many flaws to be a great boo
The Grave Tattoo.
~ About the Author ~
Val McDermid began her writing career as a journalist, before turning to writing novels, and is without a doubt the UK's best known female writer of thriller books.
Even those who might not have read her books, are likely to know her for her best known series - Wire in the Blood, which has been made into a TV series featuring Robson Green, and currently Simone Lahbib.
The Grave Tattoo was first published in 2006.
~ The Book synopsis ~
After unusual amounts of rain, a body is uncovered in the peat hillsides of The Lake District.
It becomes apparent this is a fairly old body, but its even more intriguing to find that it is covered in a variety of tattoos.
Meanwhile in London, local Lake District lass Jane Gresham is barely surviving her time in the capital. Her home consists ...
Introduction ~
Yet another world war two war film except this is one with a difference. When we think of world war two we most likely think of England, Germany and America. But Russia actually paid a huge part in the war, that is often left out of films. Enemy at the Gates is about the war between Russia and Germany. Enemy at the gates is very unusual in the way that it is a film from the USSR’s point of view. To get an idea of how unlikely that would have been 20 years ago, imagine a Hollywood epic about the heroic lads of Iraq or Cuba. The exclusivity of what it takes for a story to get a greenlight in Hollywood is why there are still so many great true stories yet to be told, and Enemy at the Gates, depending upon how truthful you think it is (varying authors and experts dispute the existence of Tania, the heroine played by ...