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Romeo and Juliet: Arden Performance Editions

William Shakespeare and Paul Menzer

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For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed...

Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane

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Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come...

The Jewel That Was Ours

Colin Dexter

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He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he...

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions

William Shakespeare and Abigail Rokison-Woodall

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For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed...

Thrill Kill

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Thrill Kill is an unreleased 1998 fighting video game for the Sony PlayStation. While the technical...

Grey Gardens (2009)

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Based on a true story about a daughter and mother, both named Edith Bouvier Beale. Their story came...

1500 Hotel Nights: A Black Comedy, the Straightforward Truth on the Absurd in Hotels, That Nobody Speaks Out

Daniel Tabbush

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An honest critique of hotels and restaurants is missing from bookshelves, and Daniel Tabbush would...

Rick Astley recommended Every Kingdom by Ben Howard in Music (curated)

Every Kingdom by Ben Howard

2011 | Pop

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"Something about what he does make you feel like he's doing it from this room, it's so intimate. Hang on – have I got his name wrong? Oh wait, I haven't. He has gigged a lot as a singer songwriter so I think he translates that when he makes a record. This record went mad [in terms of popularity] but someone gave this record to me before he blew up. When I listen to this particular album, I just had the feeling like I'm in the room with him. I don't know whether he wants it to be intimate but it is. Some of the arrangements are mad, with the length of the intros and so on. You're never gonna get that on the radio! Who's gonna do that? The intros are 48 bars long or its him scratching around and doing other things. There's a real beauty in that but he also seems to have thought 'I don't really care.' Is this reflected in my own work? I think my own new record is a hotchpotch of things. The first track is called 'Beautiful Life' and anyone who's heard it has said 'you've gone a bit Nile Rodgers there with the guitar!' But that's inescapable, it's the way it is if you use that sound. And the very last track is that love letter back to prog rock and subconsciously, I've thought 'the last record did alright so now I'm doing whatever I want'. And I was doing it without anticipating anyone ever hearing it, if I'm brutally honest. My fans – yes but not Radio 2 or whatever. With this one, I've gone in without a clock and just played. I went in my room, my wife went to States, I had a bit of fun, went mad, had a load of ideas and made a record. And here we are with 'Beautiful Life'."

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