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PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Hero of the week: Tony Reeve Tony Reeve was famous as a cartoonist for Private Eye, but he was also an extremely nice guy & one of my best friends for over 20 years. I first met him at a convention in Portmeirion, North Wales, celebrating the genius of 1960’s TV show ‘The Prisoner’. At that event he met welsh actor Kenneth Griffith and...
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKTechnology Review: FacebookHaving spent a considerable amount of time, usually the early hours of the morning, trying to create a Facebook presence of the same order of the Myspace presence I already had for myself and my bands, I now feel ready for some kind of critique of it. Firstly, at the risk of sounding like a heretic, Facebook is not exactly obviously compelling,...
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK TV Review: News International coverage 6-8/07/11What an amazing and thoroughly entertaining week’s news it was. On Wednesday we started with the parliamentary debate after Prime Minister’s questions where Frank Dobson asked why News International was being allowed to buy BSkyB when they wouldn’t be allowed to run a minicab company in London. The...
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Show review: Marketing Week Live!, Olympia 29-30/06/11Dropped into this show to see what’s happening on the other side of web browsers (i.e. what companies are doing when we are looking at their websites). Once upon a time we spent our life gathering food. When there was enough food we started making things. When there were more things than we could use we started...
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKShow review/preview: The Baby Show, Excel Centre 18-20/02/11, Earls Court 28-30/10/11The Baby Show is amazing, and perfect for anyone with any interest in babies. Of course, to have such an interest you are probably a parent to be, or a parent.The great thing about being a parent to be, is that it usefully focuses your mind on how little you know about babies. In this...
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PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Film Review : Molière Much to my surprise over Christmas I discovered that you can now watch films again on BBC iPlayer. I guess when the beeb buys films now they are getting clearance for the UK internet broadcast. One which I watched this way was a dramatisation of the life of French playwright Molière. According to wikipedia the story only vaguely...
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  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...
  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...
  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...
  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...
  • Secret Diaries: Parcel Delivery

    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...

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  • In Pictures: FOE

    Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.
  • In Pictures: Avett Brothers

    Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11 Read the review of the gig here.
  • In Pictures: Latitude Festival 2011

    Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...
  • In Pictures: Bad Guys at the Old Blue Last

    Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.  
  • In Pictures: White Lies and Crocodiles at Shepherd's Bush Empire

    Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...

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