David Bowie

It's always sad to see an artist or band call it a day. In this case, given KILNAMANA's incredible talent, it's bittersweet indeed. Thankfully, KILNAMANA's final release is absolutely flawless. On Bye Bye, KILNAMANA have created some of…

"I'm not Grace. That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever." — Jeff Buckley 25 years after the release of Grace it remains a modern…

This year sees a lot of anniversaries - forty years since Joy Division’s masterpiece, Unknown Pleasures, thirty years since The Stone Roses first record. It also marks four decades since a new sub-genre of music interrupted the airwaves.…

Two of the most famous photographs of Elvis are the cover of his debut album and a shot of him onstage, where he leans into the microphone, doused in sweat, his face white against the blackness of the background. On the cover of that first…

What’s the best thing about the movie the labyrinth?? David Bowie’s cod piece of course! The second best thing is the Goblins! Today on Sexy Beasts we talk about the working classes of the fantasy world! Goblins are the mistreated salt…

Very few albums in modern music are worthy of the title "masterpiece". Fewer yet earn cult status almost right away upon release. Underground artists, however, do sometimes come to the surface, leaving audiences with a glimpse into the…

"You gave away the things you loved, and of them was me.." Listening to Carly Simon's colossal 1972 hit, ‘You’re So Vain’, you realise very quickly that whoever wounded this woman will be reminded for eternity. Every time they hear it…

“Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume.” So opens Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine (1998), and it sets the tone for two key elements of the glam rock movie: it’s not about…

Mute, the latest Netflix sci-fi, is a weird Frankenstein’s creature of a film. It’s filled with interesting ideas and unique touches. Sadly, they are just ones which never coalesce into a satisfying whole. Set in a future Berlin, Alexander…

Comedian and podcaster Erin McGathy of This Feels Terrible, HarmonQuest and many other things too joins Alan & Ellen to talk about Jim Henson's 1986 cult classic Labyrinth. Erin has very deep feelings about Labyrinth and was kind enough…