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(review) Niki Lauda Firefighters – ‘DEMO’

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Niki Lauda Firefighters are coming from Berlin, Germany and this is their demo, offering four songs. The music on this demo is just what I needed this morning, meaning fast and epic hardcore punk with angry screaming vocals and delivering punches in your gut with songs like ‘TikToks From The Trenches’ or ‘One Pint, One Piss’. This is a superb demo with blistering raging fast guitars still delivering mighty melodies behind all of it, angry guy screaming his lungs out and ironic/nihilistic/black humor lyrics and they reminded me a lot of S.O.D. or M.O.D. with their mixture of thrash and hardcore punk here. I can’t wait for more. This one is just too short, how good it is.

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(movie) ‘A Wounded Fawn'(2022) – beautiful gore artwork, poetic justice is in order.

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Shudder never ceases to amaze me with their original program, movies they make for that horror streaming platform. A Wounded Fawn could be called art horror. It could be called body horror and mindfuck psychological horror, because it is all that. Co-written and directed by Travis Stevens(producer of ‘Girl On The Third Floor’ and ‘Jakob’s Wife’), this little movie with only two actors most of the time, shows how you can get great movie with little money if the story and idea are alright. Story starts when Bruce(Josh Ruben of ‘Scare Me’ and ‘Werewolves Within’) loses at the auction for eerie statue. He then goes to dinner to a house owned by winner of the auction Kate(Malin Barr of ‘Honeydew’) and we find out Bruce is a serial killer devoted to some pagan deity which compels him to kill. Fast forward, Bruce takes our main character Meredith (Sarah Lind – ‘The Humanity Bureau’) to a house deep in the woods which previously belonged to Kate. Meredith sees women that should not be there, supernatural things start to happen, and then Bruce tries to kill her. End of chapter one. Why? Because then movie totally nicely surprises me turning from boring serial killer chase I thought it would be to mindfuck psychological body folk horror with Bruce paying karma vengeance for his deeds. Some parts are so poetical, so beautiful done with such colors that reminded me of Argento’s Suspiria by its beauty, not story. Also, the ending is so nice, and poetic justice never sounded nicer. Acting and characters could be better, but since this is mostly two characters movie, it doesn’t really matter. Good one indeed!

7.5/10

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(news – new book) ‘Punks in the Willows’ launches on World Book Day!

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‘Punks in the Willows’ launches on World Book Day

Today is World Book Day, a charity event that hopes to change lives through a love of books and shared reading.
The mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. And this year, Earth Island Books will be joining in, launching Alex CF’s beautiful and important new book, ‘Punks In The Willows’ today.

‘Punks in the Willows’ is a colourful guide to the punk rock community, told through the lives of animals. A collection of illustrations depicting the creativity, music, social justice and above all, friendship that is found in punk. Suitable to read with any age, and available to pre-order now!

We will also be offering any younger readers half price copies of Ryan Roberts ‘Nimrod’ or Roy Delaney’s ‘Worst. Eurovision. Ever’ from today until Sunday 26th March. Just get in touch, drop us an email about books for your younger (or adult) reader, as we’re told that “Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income.” We want to support that and World Book Day.

‘Nimrod’ is a coming of age tale. A high school kid meets his first girlfriend and goes to his first gig, all to a soundtrack of Green Day music. It’s more involved than that, obviously, with school, friends and family issues along the way, but we can’t give away too much or you wouldn’t need to read it!

‘Worst. Eurovision. Ever’ is a comical novel all about the Eurovision Song Contest and the hilarious wranglings that go on behind the scenes. There’s a bunch of Moldovians tipped for greatness, a meddling Saudi Prince, and all sorts of nefarious rock n roll hijinks. Ideally timed for reading before the real event in Liverpool this May. 

World Book Day was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. It is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. The first World Book Day in the UK and Ireland took place in 1997 to encourage young people to discover the pleasure of reading. World Book Day 2023 will be on 2 March 2023, children of all ages will come together to share the joy of reading for pleasure.
Spending just 10 minutes a day reading and sharing stories with children can make a crucial difference to their future success and it’s fun for all involved.
That’s why World Book Day continues to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure through its work with authors, illustrators, publishers, bookshops and libraries.
Find out more at: https://www.worldbookday.com