DAVID LYNCH: Crazy Clown Time.The film director who looks at life from the dark side so much it’s pretty much pitch black has done some musical collaborations in the past but this is his first debut album that’s not surprisingly oh-so-strange. Nothing’s ever as it seems with him – the audacious percussion on She Rise Up gives it the ambience of escaping steam while Lynch’s powerful, dark and idiosyncratic vision of new blues is as foreboding and hypnotic as it is enigmatic. It twists and turns from doomed romance to dark revenge and proves that clowns can be frightening.Read
OH MY!: Dirty Dancer.Grime pop about as irritating as Toni Basil’s 80s hit Mickey but this one’s obsessed with actor Patrick Swayze who died in 2009. It may be in your face but don’t let it get in your head whatever you do. Let’s hope it doesn’t catch on.Read
IT’S early days but Timeless Festival could be back. The Ravensknowle Park-based festival was launched in 2001 in reaction to a wave of vandalism in the park, including to the historic clock tower.Read
DURING a TV blackout in 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 retrieves an important Autobot artefact and returns it to Earth, unaware that more than 40 years later, the device will spark a titanic war with the Decepticons. Read
THE JAR FAMILY: In For A Penny.Folky pop band that are big in the north east and it’s easy to hear why with this breezy funky percussion slice of optimism that’ll bring a smile to the sternest of face.Read
