It was pretty obvious at the end of ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, that the Arctic Monkeys were going to have a really hard time topping the critical acclaim of their debut album. But needless to say, they went away for a year and a few months, and they have released [...]

Lewis Hamilton is a revelation; since Damon Hill retired in 1999, Britain has been stuck with Jensen Button, who has only succeeded in winning a one out of his 113 races. To be fair, he as been on the podium a fair few times, but Britain’s new boy Lewis Hamilton has been on the podium [...]

Last week my dad ordered a brand new computer from Dell, complete with a 2.4 Ghz dual-core AMD processor, 4 GB of RAM, a 256 Mb Nvidia Geforce graphics card, a 320 GB hard drive, all in one printer and a 19″ ultra sharp LCD screen. And to top it all off, we got a [...]

Second Life is a internet based virtual-world which is the latest ‘craze’: since its creation in 2004 by Linden Lab, 5 million people have registered and created avatars of themselves, all of which can be customised to look like the user. There are many other things to do in Second Life, but everything costs money. [...]

I recently discovered the wonders of www.flickr.com, as I’m sure many other people have. To describe it is hard: have you ever been on holiday and had your camera run out of battery at an inopportune moment? Well, on flickr, you can find a photo of the things you missed. This website offers a unique [...]

When the PS3 was released in America in November last year, it was competing against the Xbox 360 and the Wii, both of which had been released months before. The Playstation wasn’t met with the same acclaim as the Wii or the Xbox 360, and many shops had trouble selling the units. When it was [...]

The 1st generation ipod was released in 2001, to mild acclaim. I reckon it was about the 3rd generation when it started to become the modern icon it is today. As the owner of a 5th generation ipod and the previous owner of a 3rd generation ipod, I am a proud part of this phenomenon. [...]

I recently heard that Google, the new owners of Youtube, are considering rewarding their contributors by giving people specific sums of money if their videos are watched. I think this is a really cool idea, and it’s good to know that they want to repay the people who have made them so much money, but [...]

I have, of course, seen Trainspotting. I wouldn’t be able to call myself a film fan unless I had seen it, and it ranks highly in my favourite films. I’m sure many of you have also seen 28 Days Later, which did for zombie films what Alien did for sci-fi. Another excellent movie I watched [...]

I was reading through the news the other day when I read an article saying that another Lord Of The Rings book will be published next month. How, I thought? J.R.R Tolkien has been dead for many years now, and I don’t think anyone else could capture the target audience as he did. But it [...]

David Blaine markets himself as the herald of his generation. He even has the audacity to compare himself to Jesus… but just wait a minute; if i remember correctly, Jesus didn’t live in an oversized nappy for 5 weeks whilst being tempted in the desert; when Blaine did the ‘Above the Below’ stunt over the [...]

So how many people out there think Big Brother is ridiculous? Who would want to give up 2 to 3 months of their lives for the infinitesimally small chance of a £10000 prize. Well, that’s nothing. In Holland, where I currently live, they have a program called De Gouden Kooi, which is translated as The [...]

When Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond, a load of websites popped up protesting against the fact that someone blond had been cast as the suave agent. Yes, BLOND. A tad petty perhaps? Well, I noticed that all the websites seemed to shut up after the release of Casino Royale. Probably due [...]

Patrick Wolf is, I suppose, someone that you could call odd. You only have to take a look at the album artwork below to deduce that he is not your average person, or at least someone with an extremely warped fashion sense. But this doesn’t really matter; as his 3rd album, The Magic Position, is [...]

Myspace is dying…. come on, admit it. How many of you out there actually use it any more? Gone are the days when you weren’t a succesful band unless you had a myspace page with more than a million plays. Sure, some bands still use it, but as a social networking tool, it is inferior. [...]

There is a new TV show on the block, Heroes. Directed by Tim Kring, it arrived late last year with hardly any exposure, but has already built up a large following, myself included, due to the fact that it is not afraid to be different: the tag line for this series is “save the cheerleader, [...]

I was an avid watcher of The Apprentice whilst I lived in America. There’s something particularly hilarious about Donald Trump, complete with tacked on hair, wildly gesturing towards someone before muttering the fateful words, “You’re Fired”. Said person then follows the trademark routine, walking into the black cab that whisks them away to ‘failure’.
And then [...]

I was recently given a copy of the new Arcade Fire album, Neon Bible. They weren’t particularly big before, despite having an excellent first album (Funeral), and after giving the best performance last year at Glastonbury. Anyway, they couldn’t have followed it up in a better fashion: Neon Bible is different from the first album, [...]