Reviews

Third solo LP from Posies co-founder

Post-punk road movie, ripe for reassessment

Bruce Campbell. As Elvis. Fighting a mummy

LIVE BY REQUEST

This deeply schizophrenic teen vampire movie classic from Joel Schumacher has dark ambitions, not least in its child-murder subtext and blood-red lighting hues from Raging Bull cinematographer Michael Chapman. But too often it's railroaded by Schumacher's baser window-dresser's instincts, and ends up like a goth Goonies on acid.

Barely six months after the demise of Theatre Of Hate, Kirk Brandon was braving it on stage in Manchester in March 1983 with a new band, name and repertoire. That his audience look mighty perplexed by SOD's brassier tribal goth-dub makes his fearless performance, caught here, even more compelling.

Reissue of Mr Echoplex's 1977 classic

Glammy tribute to a clothes shop a bit hipper than Primark

Twentieth anniversary edition of '80s classic expanded with live songs, sessions and rarities

Dazzling, genre-dodging debut from young American five-piece