Julian Barratt On New 'Mighty Boosh' And His New Show 'Flowers'
Julian Barratt – best known for The Mighty Boosh - is returning to TV in Flowers, a black comedy about an eccentric family struggling to stay together
Read MoreJulian Barratt – best known for The Mighty Boosh - is returning to TV in Flowers, a black comedy about an eccentric family struggling to stay together
Read MoreSesame Street, the children’s educational TV show beloved across the globe has acquired a brand new character. Zari is the first Afghan muppet, and will appear on the Afghan spinoff, Baghch-e-Simsim, to promote female empowerment. After a five-year run, it’s the most-watched show for young children in Afghanistan.
Read MoreYou need to see Downtown Boys live. Over the past two years I’ve listened and watched with awe-inspired excitement as they’ve encountered mad praise from Tom Morello (he wondered if they were America’s greatest punk band, a question to which I would still answer ‘yes’), toured their asses off the old school way by schlepping around North America in a crappy bus to play shows with the likes of Sheer Mag, and grown into a fantastic, ballsy act with shedloads to say. The songs, too, are wonderful:
Read MoreWill.i.am has made a new video for an old song. The video is shot in the Louvre Museum in Paris and sees the rapper’s face superimposed on world famous paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries. Jesus, though, the song is almost as old as the ‘Mona Lisa’.
Read MoreDrug smuggler, author and cult hero who died last week reveals the tunes he listened to in prison and why he hates the song 'My Way'.
Read MoreIf you like sci-fi/fantasy/action films and also play games like Fallout, there’s a YouTube user you need to start following. Meet UpIsNotJump, a guy from the UK who magically recreates trailers for things like Captain America, The Walking Dead and at the moment, Suicide Squad in his spare time, using mods for Fallout 4, a sprawling game set in an irradiated world that somehow survived the nuclear apocalypse.
Read MoreOk, so you might enjoy Game of Thrones, but do you like it enough to make jokes about your provenance in Game of Thrones’ patronymics? Do you, when questioned about your regard for Game of Thrones, begin spouting references to plot lines and characters that don't make any sense to people who haven't seen the show, described only a month ago as "only tits and dragons" by its latest newcomer Ian McShane? These are symptoms you've been watching perhaps a little too much Game of Thrones, and they're also all things that Siri did when we asked it about the new series. Here's all the things we asked and said to Apple's information bot, and how it replied.
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British Sea Power
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Catfish and the Bottlemen
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