Review Louisa Mellor 5 Sep 2013 - 14:00
Stylish six-part BBC drama Peaky Blinders is already a contender for drama of the year (and it’s been a very good year)…
‘It’s about the American President and his aides/the New Jersey mafia/the murder of an eco-activist/Baltimore drug dealers’… Anecdotally, the best television is often the stuff that doesn’t look much on paper, but on screen opens a window into a meticulously built world peopled by characters from whom you can’t look away.
Peaky Blinders, a new six-part series about a gang of bookmakers in post-wwi Birmingham, does exactly that.
Episode one’s first five minutes - and the fifty-three after them for that matter - are a lesson in world-building. Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) paints 1919 Birmingham, his home town and a place he calls “probably the least fashionable city in England”, as a Wild West frontier.
Stylish six-part BBC drama Peaky Blinders is already a contender for drama of the year (and it’s been a very good year)…
‘It’s about the American President and his aides/the New Jersey mafia/the murder of an eco-activist/Baltimore drug dealers’… Anecdotally, the best television is often the stuff that doesn’t look much on paper, but on screen opens a window into a meticulously built world peopled by characters from whom you can’t look away.
Peaky Blinders, a new six-part series about a gang of bookmakers in post-wwi Birmingham, does exactly that.
Episode one’s first five minutes - and the fifty-three after them for that matter - are a lesson in world-building. Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) paints 1919 Birmingham, his home town and a place he calls “probably the least fashionable city in England”, as a Wild West frontier.
- 9/5/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Grinderman have apparently called it quits, but all the better, to free up the hands of Warren Ellis: his other, epic band The Dirty Three are releasing their first album since 2005 next year. "Toward the Low Sun" is dropping via Drag City on Feb. 21, and in March in the U.K. on Bella Union. The trio -- consisting of Nick Cave/Grinderman mainstay Ellis, one of my top five favorite drummers of all time Jim White and Mick Turner -- last released "Cinder" in 2005 on Touch & Go (may it rest in peace). And speaking of proper RIPs, Bella Union head...
- 12/15/2011
- Hitfix
Come to All Tomorrow’S Parties tonight or tomorrow night at the Ritz, win tickets to shows at Emo’s and La Zona Rosa courtesy of C3 Presents!
For the show tonight, 11/3, you can win tickets to these shows at Emo’s:
Fri Nov 6: Mumiy Troll and Electric Six w/ Gay Blades and Millions of Brazilians
Thu Nov 19: Gil Mantera’s Party Dream w/ Auto Body
Wed Dec 9: Jay Reatard
Come to the screening tomorrow, 11/4, and you can win tickets to these shows at La Zona Rosa:
Sun Nov 15: Peter, Bjorn & John w/ El Perro Del Mar
Tue Dec 1: Metric w/ Band of Skulls
About All Tomorrow’S Parties: In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, cult music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist.
For the show tonight, 11/3, you can win tickets to these shows at Emo’s:
Fri Nov 6: Mumiy Troll and Electric Six w/ Gay Blades and Millions of Brazilians
Thu Nov 19: Gil Mantera’s Party Dream w/ Auto Body
Wed Dec 9: Jay Reatard
Come to the screening tomorrow, 11/4, and you can win tickets to these shows at La Zona Rosa:
Sun Nov 15: Peter, Bjorn & John w/ El Perro Del Mar
Tue Dec 1: Metric w/ Band of Skulls
About All Tomorrow’S Parties: In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, cult music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist.
- 11/3/2009
- by brad
- OriginalAlamo.com
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