Tag Archive | "music"

Gaiman and McKean get musical

Saturday, December 25, 2010

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The Sky at Night – no, it isn’t a video of Sir Patrick Moore talking astronomical bodies, it’s a musical collaboration between friends and regular collaborators Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman:

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Stool Pigeon – I’m here for the comics, I’ll stay for the music…

Sunday, November 28, 2010

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The Stool Pigeon #29 Phil Hebblethwaite, Editor. Mickey Gibbons, Designer. Featuring comics by Krent Able, Lawrence Elwick, Paul O’Connell, Martin Kellerman, Richard Cowdry, Luke Pearson, Josh Lesnick, JC & APK. Another issue of Stool Pigeon arrives – the music paper with some comics in the middle (See here and here for past issues). And bloody hell I actually recognise [...]

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Grant Morrison and My Chemical Romance continued…. Sing:

Sunday, November 28, 2010

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After featuring as the villain in the first video from the new My Chemical Romance album Danger Days: True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, Grant Morrison is back in the second single Sing: It’s looking like the whole album concept and all videos will be featuring Way’s group battling Morrison’s character Korse. More information comes [...]

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Murray Gold talks Doctor Who Live

Friday, October 15, 2010

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Doctor Who site Blink points us towards this video from Digital Spy, a quick chat with Doctor Who composer Murray Gold behind the scenes at the Doctor Who Live show (have any of you been to the shows so far? How was it?).

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An animated comic

Saturday, October 2, 2010

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I really like Katie Diamond‘s comic, animated through the wonderfully simple method of leafing through the individual pages in time to Regina Spektor’s “On the Radio”; the result is rather pleasing: Animated Comic by Katie Diamond from katie diamond on Vimeo.

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New Stool Pigeon out now, smaller format, but just as free

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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The Stool Pigeon #28 Phil Hebblethwaite, Editor. Mickey Gibbons, Designer. Featuring comics by Krent Able, Lawrence Elwick, Paul O’Connell, Martin Kellerman, John Riordan, Richard Cowdry Stool Pigeon is the bi-monthly, six issues a year totally independent music paper that’s distributed (thanks to the editors driving many, many, many miles each issue) to music shops (the few that are sadly left), student [...]

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New My Chemical Romance…. with added Grant Morrison….

Monday, September 20, 2010

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So Grant’s ambitions to be a pop star may never have materialised, but he is friends with Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance and rather talented comics writer (Umbrella Academy is still a brilliant romp of a comic). And there he is, 47 seconds in, looking all silver and menacing….. And in case, [...]

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Music and comics: Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Peter Hogan

Friday, September 10, 2010

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That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid strikes once more, pouncing on another unsuspecting comics writer, pen and pad in hand, armed with a bandolier of questions as he talks to the fine Peter Hogan about his early comics reading (a slew of classic Brit comics many of us grew up on), being exposed to his first [...]

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Midichlorian Rhapsody

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Queen’s immortal hit Bohemian Rhapsody re-imagined for the Star Wars universe. Genius. (via Geek Native)

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Talking comics at the Electric Picnic

Friday, August 6, 2010

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John Byrne (not the X-Men John Byrne!) kindly updates us on the upcoming Electric Picnic festival which takes place in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland from the 3rd to the 5th of September. As with many festivals it’s no longer just about the music though, with plenty of other activities and events taking place during the [...]

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Who themes through the ages

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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Brian Rimmer presents a time-travelling musical slide through more than forty years of theme music and opening sequences to the world’s longest running science fiction show, Doctor Who. I confess my favourite remains the Tom Baker era ‘time tunnel opening (the main Who era for me growing up), with the same ‘slit-scan’ technique used in [...]

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King Creole

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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This is simple but effective and just terrific fun – Bill Canoni uses some simple animation and shadow hand puppetry to re-enact Elvis singing King Creole. Genius! Enjoy the King: Elvis Presley- King Creole from BillCanoni on Vimeo.

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Latitude

Friday, July 23, 2010

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The We Are Words and Pictures posse descended on the Latitude music festival recently, a fest known for not just the live music but incorporating all sorts of other artistic activities into the proceedings, like poetry, theatre and, as the guys showed, comics. A certain Mr Sheret, a well known itinerant doodler, has written up [...]

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Translation Please – The Vertigo Quartet

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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I wrote about the new release of the Vertigo Quartet, that hep young foursome from Belgium about a month ago.  Since then, I’ve been able to get hold of a copy of this production, and it sure is no letdown. The package consists of four tracks, ranging from the extremely short to the quite longish.  [...]

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The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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“We are pleased to present a world first; Neil Gaiman reading aloud the previously unreleased story “The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains”,in the spectacular surrounds of the Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House. We have commissioned the renowned artist Eddie Campbell to illustrate the story, while FourPlay String Quartet have been commissioned [...]

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