Reverend Horton Heat: The Rev: A Review

I love the Reverend Horton Heat. It’s important to get that disclaimer out of the way. The other disclaimer is I got this album FOR FREE.

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Gone Girl: a review

By Dave ‘Wisely’ Mitchell. One of the perils of going to the cinema is that generally you cannot pick who sits around you. 

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8 things I learnt from the World of Wearable Awards Show

Lord Sutch took me on a ‘date’ to the World of Wearable Arts Award Show (WOW). It was amazing. It also gave me an opportunity to spread my wings

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A review of WOW written as though I have many personalities

I was asked if I’d like to review the World of WearableArt

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Sausage review: The Humble Cumberland

By Jerome Chandrahasen. Ah the Cumberland. The most well known and widespread of the English regional sausages.

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Siemens OptiPoint 500 economy: a review

A while back I wrote a review on the Uniball Powertank Pen. I realise now that I have been tardy in reviewing anything else (except comedy. How much comedy did I review?).

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Review a day: Best dog walk ever

Ruby is my dog.  I love her.  I hate her.  Dog owners will know what I mean.  I hope.

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A review a day

A list of some of the things that, in no particular order, have happened to me recently.

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Comedy Fest review: Jamie Bowen in Heart goes Boom

First off, this picture does not do Jamie’s beard justice. That is one hell of a beard.

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Comedy fest review: Jeremy Elwood in Jeremy Elwood LIVE

Well of course he’s live. If he wasn’t live. He’d be dead.

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Comedy Fest review: Ben Crellin in …err…Benjamin Crellin

Ben Crellin is a confrontational comic. He’s possibly not the sort of comedian you’d bring your grandparents to.

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Comedy Fest review: Tom Wrigglesworth in Utterly At Odds With The Universe

So Tom Wrigglesworth was here a few years ago (2010 in fact, damn time marches on) and he constructed an entire one hour show based on a short story of a thing that happened to him on a train.

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Comedy Fest review: Brendon Green in Some More Mr Nice Guy

I’m noticing a trend in festival shows this year. We’re not getting the big introductions where we’re asked to go “crazy and wild” for the comic. Instead the comedian is just sort of there.

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Comedy fest review: Jonny Potts in the Delusionaries

Jonny is a guy with a bit of a cult following around Wellington. He looks like a throwback to the 1990s with his semi-grungy motif but he’s a funny fucker.

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Comedy fest review: Jamaine Ross in Jamaine Says Funny Things

I walk down the stairs into the Cavern Club to see Jamaine Ross’s show and he immediately greets me with a friendly handshake, a warm smile and a jovial ‘hello’.

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Comedy fest review: Hairy Soul Man

Kai Smythe, a Melbourne-based musician, comedian and performer is Hairy Soul Man, a peacock of a performer full of swagger and confidence.

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Comedy fest review: Urzila Carlson in Poise Control

I turn up to San Fran to see Urzila Carlson about two minutes before the show starts, and the venue is packed.

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Comedy fest review: Reginald D. Hunter (trigger warnings)

So. Rape huh? That’s a bold opening to make isn’t it? Especially because I’m a male. So really I’m the worst person to be making those statements.

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