Comeback Kid Sign to Nuclear Blast, Team Up With Devin Townsend
Canadaian hardcore/punk outfit, Comeback Kid, have signed a record deal with Nuclear Blast for their next release, including a collab with HevyDevy himself, Devin Townsend. Vocalist Andrew Neufeld commented: "We are ecstatic to be signing with Nuclear Blast. A label that has been running for 30 years and home to some of hardcore and metal's most integral acts." "Here in Canada we are joining up with long-time friends at New Damage/Dine Alone. We have worked closely with them before so we know it...
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe: Sopwell House’s ‘G&Tea’
World Gin Day takes place this weekend (Saturday 10th June), providing plenty of reasons to enjoy a drink (or twelve) containing the nation’s favourite spirit. In turn, Sopwell House – a Georgian manor house hotel in St. Albans - has fused two of the nation’s favourite drinks: tea and gin, in their ‘G&Tea’ cocktail. Created by the bar’s mixologists, the drink combines Bathtub gin with cooled Earl Grey tea and grapefruit juice for a ‘sophisticated twist’. So with World Gin...
Hilarious DUP billboard backfires spectacularly
A DUP billboard running an anti-Conservative pledge has backfired spectacularly after the party teamed up with the Tories to give them the majority they need to form a government. The advertisement features a woman giving her allegiance to Northern Ireland's DUP because she "wants an MP who answers to us - not to the Tories". But it will undoubtedly come back to bite the party in the arse. Theresa May announced today that she would be forming a government with...
Constituency where students were turned away won by 30 votes
The Midlands constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme was won by a margin of 30 votes after students were turned away because they weren't on the register. Yesterday news broke that admin errors could deny voters the chance to cast ballots in the marginal seat, but the students were urged to go back after the cock-up to place their vote. And it's a good job they did. The seat ended up been won by a slender 30 vote majority by Labour candidate Paul Farrelly who...
This Facebook post has come back to bite Theresa May on the a***
A Facebook post from May 20th claiming that if the Conservatives lose just six seats Jeremy Corbyn will become PM has come back to bite Theresa May on the arse after she lost more than five times that amount. The Tories have lost 26 seats to the Labour Party and five to the Liberal Democrats with one seat still to declare. May has decided to carry on regardless, relying on the help of the DUP to form a government. But...
LISTEN: ShitKid’s Debut Album ‘Fish’ Has Landed
ShitKid is back to follow up her previous EPs with her eagerly anticipated debut album Fish on June 2, and will be spending the spring and summer on the road with appearances at Roskilde Festival confirmed, with more UK and EU tour dates to be announced. ShitKid is the project of 24-year- old Åsa Söderqvist who made her debut last spring with a self-titled debut EP, which quickly propelled her into being one of the most talked about new acts in...
Watch – Dogs strike a pose in bow-tie with fantastic results
These hilarious photos are 'poocher-perfect' and prove man's best friend just loves life in front of the camera. Jason Checkla abandoned taking wedding photos and now has a money-spinning business snapping dogs and their owners. He got the idea after getting his own pooch to strike a pose. His work is now so popular that the New York-based snapper made more than £4,700 snapping nearly 100 canines in the space of just four hours. He said: “It is not nearly...
Watch – Horrific moment massive spider extracted from woman’s ear
This is the horror moment doctors examined a patient with a headache - and were confronted by an enormous SPIDER which crawled out her ear. Lekshmi L, 49, woke up from an afternoon nap on her veranda with a "slight discomfort" and tingling sensation in her right ear. Suspecting an obstruction, she tried to dig around in her ear with her finger and asked her daughter to look inside using a torch. But when she developed an excruciating pain in...
Forgotten Film Friday: Les Diaboliques
By Michael McNulty Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 horror thriller Les Diaboliques was based on the novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, (more commonly recognized by their nom de plume Boileau-Narcejac) Celle qui n’etait pas. One of two of their novels that was snapped up and turned into a film, the other, D’entre les morts, was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock and became the basis for one of his masterpieces, Vertigo. Much of Les Diaboliques’ power comes from the film’s twists and...