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The ne plus ultra of film posters

In simple terms: It is a poster of a very French looking man (who might be belgian actually) wearing modern clothes running away from an army of spear carrying warriors, pulling a face that can only be described as "pained". He is also carrying a cafetiere.

In actual fact this is probably the greatest film poster of all time, at once totally shit and utterly brilliant. My french is so bad that I could probably start a limited nuclear exchange just by mis-ordering some wine - yet I was fairly prepared to go and watch this en francais without any more info at all.

Also even when you are cold and wet in Paris, unsure as to exactly where your hotel has run off to, catching a glimpse of this poster will make even the most miserable person crack a smile, while someone else shouts "Do the face! Do the face!"

Do the face!

Portishead at ATP : we hear it was good

Portishead at ATP2007 during new song Mystic

Our man Jim Bogue, the musical visionary, barbers nightmare and iron-hard ruler of Coventry's Invitation to Love, went to All Tomorrows Parties at Minehead last weekend. I got a text on Sunday saying proclaiming verily: it was good, and by the looks of these Youtube videos, I'd say too.

And there's a bunch more over at the usual place.

Zombie-Zombie at Taylor John's House, Coventry

Zombie-Zombie, giving it a load - you'd be disappointed if the photo was good, wouldn't you?

You might think I need a better camera, and some actual camera skills might be nice too, but Zombie-Zombie don't actually show up very well on (digital) film you see.

I'm blaming the fact that they are undead, and this knowledge of the Other Place enables them to draw on terrifying experiences and shoot that out all over the equally zombie like audience (bless you all, of course) at Taylor John's House. I'll include myself there, I'd driven over and I was terribly sober, and like most English people I need two pints inside me before I get rhythmic.

And they were great - a disco-horror soundtrack, clearly influenced by John Carpenter and Giorgio Moroder and Goblin. Plenty of throbbing bass, furious drumming and dubbed-out shrieks through the ancient Space Echo, and a stone-cold tune in the form of "Psychic Harmonia", much rougher than their recorded version.

There's a single out right now, "Driving this road until death sets you free", which you hear on ze Myspace, and they're off around the rest of the UK this month, and they did a horror-y mix for Allez-Allez. Oddly the first track of the mix, Spectrum & Silver Apples, was recorded at the Cabin Studios in Coventry.

Russell Brand at the Camden Roundhouse

He’s everywhere else so he might as well be on here too. Caught his latest tour during a brief pause in the cavalcade of coughing and sneezing otherwise known as December.

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