The coolest band in the world, Ever!…
Jul 29th
Who are the coolest bands of all time? Its a tough call and one that greatly depends on your point of view with regards to the word cool!
Narrowing down this list to just 5 acts was incredibly hard. Many many acts were considered and many many hours were spent deliberating, just who has what Bruce Forsyth calls ‘It’!
Finally after a heavy session the list was complete, and lo it came to pass that the Frackin Cool shortlist of coolest bands of all time is…
• The Velvet Underground • The Ramones • Joy Division • Massive Attack • Nick Cave and More >
Top Gear, Series 15, Episode 5 » Review
Jul 28th
This Sunday (25th July 2010) saw what many (Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans included) believe was the best episode of Top Gear ever!
The show continues to be all things to everyone, but most important of all it’s just good old fashioned fun.
Kicking off with the trio of presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May scoffing at the pending end on the petroleum powered car and sneering at anything that is powered by other fuels such as used chip fat and cow manure.
We all know it’s wrong, but cannot help watching middle aged men speed around the Cote d’Azur in More >
James Bond and the Battle for the Future
Jul 27th
No thats not the name of the new 007 movie for two very good reasons. One it’s a rubbish title and two because at the moment there isn’t a new 007 movie.
He’s fought the worlds greatest super-villains on the big screen for nearly 50 years but he’s now meeting his greatest foe to date, a dangerously corrupt organisation known only as ‘The Bankers’.
The 23rd film in the James Bond series has been put on hold due to rights owner MGMs current financial situation. With debts worth £4 billion its highly unlikely a new film will get the green light anytime More >
BlackBerry look over their shoulders
Jul 27th
They must have known at RIM the time would come, 5 years ago out there on their own, ready for when businesses woke up and realised it wanted email on the go, BlackBerry cleaned up and made pots of cash With exchange servers and qwerty mobiles. Even when they really got into top gear and launched the BlackBerry Pearl, those executives must have thought, it cannot last.
Like the lead lone cyclist going for victory after an early breakaway, the ‘pelaton’ is catching – no it’s caught up and BlackBerry who was the only show in town has been swamped!
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How do you do it Holmes?
Jul 26th
As far as show openers go, Sherlock was right up there. A fast pace (too fast in places), slick visuals and an intriguing plot all added up to a pilot that rivalled the first ever episode of Lost back in the summer of 2005. When you compare the budgets of the 2 shows it makes Sherlock even more impressive.
Amazingly the idea to set Sherlock in modern times worked, it had disaster written all over it but somehow they pulled it off. Maybe in these troubled times we need to know a nut-job genius is out there watching our back like More >
A good week for Liverpool F.C.
Jul 23rd
If the streets of London are paved with gold then the streets of Liverpool must be strewn with missing jigsaw pieces. Never before has one team been looking that final piece for so long.
Since they last won the league back in 1990 Nigel Clough, Stan Collymore, Nick Barmby, Harry Kewell, Djibril Cisse, Craig Bellamy and Robbie Keane have all come along trying to be that ellusive piece and all failed to finish the puzzle.
Now in the summer of 2010 enter stage left Joe Cole! Will he fill that final hole? Or has so much time passed by that Liverpool now More >
R.U.S.E. marks a new era for strategy games
Jul 22nd
Strategy games have come a long way over the years from the earliest Spectrum days and games like Stonkers to the console wars of the 8 and 16 bit era.
The 90s and 00s were the age of flimsy tower defence games on PCs, Games like the early Age of Empires, Civilization and Command & Conquer are fondly remembered for their addictive, but often infuriating gameplay.
Slowly evolving and emerging out of the geeks bedroom, increasing in their levels of sophistication, onto the internet and into our living rooms on all the major consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
History though is about More >
Microsoft reveal Kinect UK price details
Jul 21st
Microsoft have finally revealed the 2 most important details about their upcoming Xbox 360 peripheral.
Kinect will launch in the UK on the 15th November 2010 for a okay-ish £129.99 and bundled with the Kinect Adventures game (Microsoft’s version of Wii Sports). It will also be available as part of several hardware bundle packs with a new shaped Xbox 360.
If they are trying to win over the casual consumer market with Kinect they are taking a big gamble coming in at only £40 cheeper than the Nintendo Wii. As far as the casual consumer is concerned the Wii will offer better More >
Mercury Prize Nominees announced
Jul 21st
The Mercury Music Prize nominees for 2010 were announced yesterday evening (20th July), once again leaving the average man scratching his head in puzzlement.
Dizzy Rascal, Paul Weller and Corrine Bailey Rae are the biggest names along with post brit-pop indie rock veterans I Am Kloot, whilst Mumford and Sons get a nod with their very first release.
The £20,000 prize is voted for by a mixture of music industry bods and critics and now has a history of choosing the unexpected. Fun in the mid-ninties With Roni Size/Represent and Gomez but now it seems like one big cliche. Shock tactics only More >
Toy Story 3 means business
Jul 20th
Walk into any shop right now and the chances are you’ll drown in a sea of Toy Story merchandise.
From action figures, duvet sets, clothes, video games to nappies! Even my old 1970s Fisher Price chatter phone has been rebranded and repackaged, emblazended with the Toy Story logo and shipped all over the world.
Previous Disney PIxar films like Nemo, Cars and Wall-E have done extremely well at the tills but not even Dreamwork’s Shrek can come close to touching Toy Story in terms of lines on shelves.
Two months before the film was even released in America, Disney had shifted over 3.5 More >
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