Five for friday

Five recommendations for friday.
Yep, we are back and we have some doozys for you this week.

Check Out Ryan Hamilton and the Traitors.
You feeling this?
Yes you are. I know you are.
From here you are going to let your fingers start dancing across the keys to see what other releases are out there, where he is playing and such aren't you?
Admit it.
There's no shame in it.
You are loving this.
If you're not then do me a favour and lift your hand up and feel the side of your head.
Both sides.
Do you have ears?
If not then this is why you are not getting it.
If there are ears there then make an appointment with the doctor to have them checked as they're not working.



Here's the website for Ryan and his Traitors, and here. Have the tour dates too:

Aug 17 Bannerman's Edinburgh
Aug 18 Think Tank Newcastle
Aug 19 Brudenell Social Club Leeds

Aug 20 Sound Control Manchester
Aug 22 Hare & Hounds Birmingham

Aug 23 The Bodega Nottingham

Aug 24 Thekla Bristol
Aug 25 The Borderline London

We plan on being at Bannermans. Maybe see you at the bar. (Winky face)

And now that you have let Ryan and his mates settle in are you ready for something else?

Here's Lux Lisbon.

You're swooning. I can tell.

I first heard of Lux Lisbon off the back of their Bullingdon Club release, but more recently I was offered a ticket for a gig in Glasgow by a good friend and my enthusiasm for them jumped a gear.
Live they have the deft ability to take a performance and put it up there under the description jawdroppingly good.
Is jawdroppingly a word? It is now.
There are also one of the most fan engaged bands out there,
If you sign up to their newsletters there's always free downloads available.
And the newsletters are in actual fact letters.
They don't deal in the drab 'here's our latest gigs' news.
Thoughts, catalysts for conversations. That's their bag.
Join up and you will find yourself as part of an inclusive community of fans.

All the information is on their website.
You know what to do.

And here's something else.

There's a documentary series out there just now called Hate Thy Neighbour.
The premise as far as I can tell is to see if they can find intelligent life among groups of racists.
Spoiler alert: They don't.
It's a trip through the underbelly of extremism, or that is what most would claim, but the most horrifying aspect of it is that the racists featured are in general normal men and woman.
They are the quiet extremists that live next door.
Personally I don't understand where they are coming from.
To hate someone, anyone, without actually knowing them seems such a waste of time.

Thought provoking, and pretty much essential viewing.

Remember, ignorance is not your friend.



Music, gigs, tv shows! Where's the movies?

Okay how about Murder on the Orient Express?
Is there a point to it?
Will it be better than the Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Redgrave, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, John Gielgud, Sean Connery one from 1974?
Will Johnny Depp play a version of Capt Jack Sparrow in it?
So many questions and so few answers.
Par for the course for a murder mystery.

We will be going to see it as I am a sucker for some Agatha Christie.



and if you are looking for an action comedy then the latest from Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson The Hitman's Bodyguard looks as if it will tick the boxes.