Dougal and Sam treasure their Harry Hill souvenirs

11:23am Friday 17th October 2008

Review of Harry Hill at the Cheltenham Literature Festival by Dougal Kirkland (aged 13) and Sam Haighton (aged 12, nearly 13).

Tasteful tiny toy town waits for attention

10:59am Friday 17th October 2008

YOU could be forgiven for not noticing Mizuyo Yamashita’s contribution to Stroud House Gallery’s latest graduate exhibition The tiny toy town doesn’t shout to be heard, but waits quietly beside the door. It’s composed, calm and really, really cute. A miniature townscape in cream, jade, pink and blue.

Troubled men fail to impress

10:42am Friday 17th October 2008

OUTLAW (18) AFTER director Nick Love’s violent cult films The Football Factory and The Business he brings us this story about vigilantes in a vengeance charged Britain. In January 2006 Love launched a campaign so his fans could buy into the film. They would receive a credit on the DVD, and have the opportunity to be an extra in one of the scenes in the film. The website had 2 million hits, which is alarming testimony to his popularity. He said "I have received e-mails and letters and spoke to people across the country as well as reading news stories about the topic, and I felt that I should involve those people who wanted to have their say. In the present, which is a very grimy England where aggrieved policeman Walter Lewis (Bob Hoskins) says "most of the police couldn’t lie in bed straight", we meet an eclectic mix of troubled men. Driving on the way to his wedding Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer) is beaten up. While Sergeant Bryant (Sean Bean) returns from duty in Iraq to find his wife has changed the locks and moved in her lover. Elsewhere barrister Cedric Munroe (Lennie James) is leading the prosecution case against a drugs baron. While taking a loo stop he is threatened by one of the baron’s men, who tells Cedric that his house is being watched and if he doesn’t lose the case his wife and unborn child will be totalled. We learn of a student who was badly beaten up only to see his attacker released from prison before his own body has healed. Bryant books a room is a very nasty hotel and meets its creepy security guard Simon Hillier (Sean Harris), who passed the time by watching the hotel guests’ sexual antics on CCTV camera. As Bryant has a bag full of weapons Hillier is fascinated and introduces himself to the soldier. Watching the violence on the news together they agree society is going to pot and an equally violent seed is sewn.

Mockers keep music evil at the Lockies

10:39am Friday 17th October 2008

MOCKERS returns from the crypt with a mission to 'keep music evil'.

Hoo Hah - wunderbar

10:35am Friday 17th October 2008

HOO-HAH Poetry presents a night of poetry and music at SVA on Thursday, October 30, featuring poets Sheila Simmons and Kate Noakes, with music from Oogoo Maia.

Raising money for African projects

10:22am Friday 17th October 2008

PLANET Arts are holding a Re-building Africa fundraising weekend at Star Anise Cafe and the British School this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

US choir show how it's done

10:25am Friday 17th October 2008

NORTHERN Harmony - a world music singing ensemble from Vermont, USA - will be leading a workshop at The Space on October 29, and then performing a concert there the following evening.

Sweet nonsense entertains

10:31am Friday 17th October 2008

THE ROCKER (12A).

Yardbirds return to the Subs after 40 years

10:12am Friday 17th October 2008

YARDBIRD'S drummer and founder member Jim McCarty says he is ‘thrilled’ at the prospect of returning to Stroud after the band's last performance here some 40 years ago.

Grounding flights of fancy stunts albums potential

10:49am Wednesday 15th October 2008

RUTH Royall’s progress from young rock belter to mature singer/ songwriter continues apace with this short, sometimes seductive album.

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