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I wandered into a certain town centre music store the other day and asked if they’d be getting The Lovely Eggs new album in on monday.  No, it seems, nobody had ordered it, but i could if I wanted.  No I told them, quite plainly.  If I wanted to order I’d use the net and [...]

Runt Hornet, Joyeux and Pick up The Gun — The Yorkshire House 29.5.09

I only caught the end of  Pick Up The Gun’s debut set, but they were interesting.  Feedbacking guitars and thunderous drumming dominanted the two songs I saw: the one that sounded a bit Nirvana-esque, and the one that sounded a lot like Smashing Pumpkins but heavier.  Give them a while to write some songs and [...]

Six Poets — Jane Eagland & Ian Seed

Six Poets events are irregular, focussed around one of their number with work to celebrate.  Previously, I believe, they have been quite informal but decided on this occasion to take advantage of The Storey’s new space.  They take their poetry seriously here, which is not to say that it can’t be comic and funny.  It’s [...]

Spotlight At The Storey — May 2009

So Spotlight comes to The Storey after 14 years it has a new home, and for this reason or maybe others there’s a big turn out for the first night.  A fair few faces unfamiliar to me (though that proves nothing) which is good, and yet it makes me wonder where they all were those [...]

I Am Kloot — The Yorkshire House (A Totally Wired Presentation)

It’s ironic, Paul Rhodes tells me, that two solo artists are playing as bands tonight in support of a band which is actually a solo performance by I Am Kloot’s John Bramwell.  But Niamh Starkey have been a trio for a while now, as readers of this review will know, and Moll Baxter has been [...]

Paperweight At The Round Theatre

Paperweight – The Round Theatre – 21/05/09  Theatre is not an art medium I am wholly familiar with having only seen 1 play 2 years ago at The Edinburgh Festival. On that occasion it was a friends’ production and I found it to be a profoundly underwhelming experience. However I decided to put my prejudices [...]

The Damned United at The Dukes Cinema

Here’s what it says on The Dukes website about one of this years’ more eagerly awaited films: Frost/Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan’s confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44-day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football in the 1970s, Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and [...]

Ian Seed interviewed by Sarah Hymas

Tomorrow night at The STorey Six Poets present Jane Eagland and Ian Seed.  Sarah Hymas recently spoke to Ian about his woork, and has kindly agreed to reproduce the results here on The Lunecy Review.  It’s intriguing, and certainly enough to drag me along to The Storey tomorrow.  SARAH: I thought as a change from [...]

LitFest’s Launch At The Storey

Lancaster LitFest helped launch the new Storey Creative Industries Centre last night with a well-attended event featuring former Lancaster University graduate Jacob Polley. LitFest’s Andy Darby opened the evening with a few words about the work-in-progress that is The Storey and then a showing of a short film by Simon Wainwright around the poems of [...]

Molly’s Lips

A review with a different slant can be found on the Monkeywrack Writers Myspace blog.  Local legend Moll Baxter recently celebrated her birthday with a night of performance (music, poetry, comedy and prose ) from most of Lancaster’s great and good and has written her view of the night here http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=104596914&blogId=488662377  Go take a look, [...]