Tag Archives: Mark Kermode

Heavy rain has just cleared, the lightening is no longer posing a threat and strolling past the Obelisk Arena the smooth sound of Irish rock band Walking on Cars tempt lost wanderers to sit for a while and listen to the round tones of lead singer Patrick Sheehy. The group have an appealing guitar pop sound, which feels vaguely eighties, ...

Reviewer: Simon Topping  Richard Ayoade, known for his various award-winning comedy roles in Garth Marenghi, The IT Crowd and The Mighty Boosh as well as his presenting work on The Crystal Maze and Travel Man, is here to talk about movies with BBC and Guardian film critic, Mark Kermode. Director of two very successful features, Submarine and The Double, Ayoade ...

Reviewer: Simon Topping It is standing room only for Mark Kermode’s Celluloid Jukebox in the hot heat of the Music and Film Arena. Billed as a historic trip into the links between pop and film, Kermode quickly undercuts the rhetoric of any academic pretence by explaining from the start that this is just a showing of his most interesting film ...

Conductor: Nicholas Dodd Reviewer: Selwyn Knight  The Spirit of England season from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) continues with this offering, part of the Friday Night Classics light classics concerts, this time focusing on British Blockbusters that is, music associated and used in film. During the evening we are treated to stirring martial music, jaunty dances and expansive, ...