Fall

Old obsessions get the sap rising for the Greatest Living Yorkshireman

In an era where science fiction movies are, perhaps aptly, about pushing forward the boundaries of digital technology, it’s refreshing to find a movie like Moon, which seemingly makes a virtue of its analog approach to film making. This is, I think, the first film to rely almost completely on model work, as opposed to CGI, since Blade Runner in 1982. In fact, on almost every level, Moon is retrofitted sci-fi, most conspicuously indebted to movies like Silent Running, Solaris, 2001 and Alien. It’s almost as if Star Wars never happened.

Blur guitarist’s eccentric talents are a delight

“I’m pretty nervous tonight,” Nancy Wallace confesses to a packed Borderline. “I can see the whites of your eyes,” she tells the people in front of her, all of them staring in her direction, rapt as ecstatics, transported, hanging on her every word.

They join Madness, Echo and the Bunnymen and Wire in NW1 next week

A boldly brilliant work of protest and rage

Punk before they called it that. Weird.Loud. Thrilling.

No MG’s – instead, try Neil Young and the Drive-By Truckers

The Nutty boys to play free secret shows in NW1 this month!

Explosive third from Karen O and co.