Built For Speed, Play list, Friday 1st February 2013

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 1ST FEBRUARY 2013   SEX PISTOLS – EMI. BAND OF HORSES – NW Apt. THE BRONX – Ribcage. PIL – Annalisa. ZZ TOP – Tush. JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS – I love rock’n’roll. MOTLEY CRUE – Kick-start my heart. RICHARD HAWLEY – Tonight the streets are ours. MIKAL CRONIN – Again and again. THE BOAT PEOPLE – Awkward

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Film review: FLIGHT, from Built For Speed

What starts as a an air crash thriller with Denzel Washington seemingly the heroic pilot, turns into a searing drama about guilt, responsibility, faith, fate and the vice-like grip of alcoholism. Denzel plays the highly experienced airline pilot “Whip” Whittaker who finds himself flying a malfunctioning plane that looks set to nose-dive into the earth.  After he pulls an astonishing

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 1st February, 2013

This week on Built For Speed we look at two confronting new release movies Quentin Tarantino’s blaxploitation western Django Unchained and air crash drama Flight.  We’ll also let you know about the Richard Hawley gig at the Hi Fi bar this week.  This Thursday is also the 57th birthday for one John Lydon and we’ll here some classic pistols and

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Built for Speed, Playlist, Friday 25th January

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 25th  JANUARY 2013 ALL TRACKS ARE BY AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS 1.     BORED – Little Suzie. 2.     RADIO BIRDMAN – What gives. 3.     YOU AM I – Mr Milk. 4.     TAME IMPALA – Solitude is bliss. 5.     AC/DC – Let there be rock. 6.     AUSTIN FLOYD – Black silver. 7.     COSMIC PSYCHOS – Quarter to three. 8.     LASH

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Film review: THE GUILT TRIP, from Built For Speed

From Where’s Poppa to Psycho, the overbearing and intrusive mother and her henpecked son have, for decades, been staples of Hollywood films.   Similarly, the volatile pairing of the miserable uptight businessman and the irresponsible immature nut has been the basis of many road trip comedies.  Guilt Trip tries to combine these subgenres but the comic potential of this union has

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Film review: DJANGO UNCHAINED, from Built For Speed

In the mid 1990’s Quentin Tarantino grabbed the movie world by the dangly bits and announced himself as cinema’s new enfant terrible, agent provocateur and other French clichés.  He is one of a select few directors who compel critics when reviewing his films to discuss him as much as the film itself, such is his impact and distinctive voice. Tarantino’s

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