Three great films in the past fortnight I’ve rediscovered, thanks to Hove library’s rather patchy DVD section (mostly comprised of Big Brother outtakes and crap Seventies horror films like I Spit On Your Grave) - Elizabeth Taylor’s incredible performance as Maggie ‘The Cat’ in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, 8 Mile (rather surprisingly) and Alan Bates’ classic early Sixties kitchen sink drama A Kind Of Loving. These, coupled with the complete third series of Jeeves And Wooster, have provided welcome relief at the end of days when computer and music threatens to overwhlem and send me tumbling down a spiral of blank solicitude. Plus: aren’t the magnolias and lilacs beautiful, cycling through the back lanes of Hove on a summer’s afternoon? I think so.

We now have an almost completed pilot issue of Plan B - with ads to match!
We now have a Plan B cheque book!
We are ready to rumble.

You’ll be wanting to check out creepingbent.org for the Fire Engines live CD? Don’t know who they are? Well. Hmm. Check out the site. Unless it’s not up, in which case…you can trace a dierct line between the trebly, extreme guitars of this 1981 Scots pop band and their debut single ‘Get Up And Use Me’, and Erase Errata’s brittle, bruising rhythms. Serious.