North Korea’s PEE Ensemble

Behold North Korea’s Ponchobo Electronic Ensemble: “The musical style is a lunatic mash-up of oompah-band beer garden beats, operatic vocals cranked up like power drills and buggy, sparking electronic organs squeezed and tortured until they short circuit in a sonic eruption of bleeps and blarts. Every note is […]

Southern Comfort

I’ve never been much of a fan of Southern Literature.  Partly because I was force-fed too much of it in school (though I don’t include To Kill A Mockingbird in that), but partly because, well, you know that whole ‘Eden lost’ ethos that flavours so much of it?  […]

The Fine Art of Dreamthieving

Michael Moorcock’s latest, and last, fantasy trilogy winds different strands of his fiction together intointertwining, virtually meta-fictional narratives reflecting on mythic and heroic archetypes and the power of stories to create new realities.  If you like Moorcock, you will enjoy these books.  If you don’t like Moorcock, they […]