Counting Crows' new album is a 'grower'
9:40am Monday 14th May 2012
Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Holidays): Counting Crows (Cooking Vinyl).
Thu, 17th May 2012
Review: Great British Menu, BBC2
4:09pm Friday 11th May 2012
WELL you can’t accuse the Beeb of under-selling Tuesday’s Great British Menu in their trailers.
Reviewed: Jeff Beam - Be Your Own Mirror
4:31pm Thursday 10th May 2012
THIS wonderfully uplifting album from American artist Jeff Beam sounds exactly like sunshine breaking through the clouds.
Review: Domane Wachau Gruner Veltliner
4:36pm Tuesday 8th May 2012
Austria has come a long way since the illegal additives scandal.
Review: Paul Mas Grenache Syrah 2011
4:37pm Tuesday 8th May 2012
This juicy red from a highly-regarded maker
Review: The Bridge, BBC4
4:40pm Friday 4th May 2012
JUST when you thought Scandinavian drama couldn’t get any better, along comes The Bridge.
Reviewed: The Proclaimers, Allo Darlin' and Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly
2:05pm Thursday 3rd May 2012
THE PROCLAIMERS - Like Comedy EVERYONE’S favourite identical twin singing brothers who come from Scotland and have raspy voices and play acoustic guitars and have matching t-shirts and matching haircuts and big cheesy grins and like wearing jeans are back!
Review: Vina Araya 2010, Cabernet Carmenere
4:15pm Tuesday 1st May 2012
The smooth, purple, plummy taste of Chile’s own Carmenere grape
Review: The Ned Pinot Grigio 2011
4:16pm Tuesday 1st May 2012
The Ned is a 909 metre peak towering above the fields of vines
Review: The Voice, BBC1
2:37pm Friday 27th April 2012
THE Beeb promised that their new Saturday night prime time show The Voice would be a celebration of genuine talent — and boy have they lived up to that.
CD Review Round-Up - Jack White / Rufus Wainwright / Mystery Jets
3:50pm Thursday 26th April 2012
JACK WHITE - Blunderbuss JACK White heads down a more restrained route than the one taken by his globe-conquering band The White Stripes on his debut solo album, Blunderbuss.
Review: Quincy Oscar Brillant 2009
2:26pm Tuesday 24th April 2012
A dry white that's nothing to do with a long-gone TV series about a US coroner.
Review: La Vielle Ferme 2010
2:27pm Tuesday 24th April 2012
A brand that’s been around for many years with only slight
CD Reviews Round-up - Spiritualized / Polica / Alabama Shakes
4:03pm Friday 20th April 2012
SPIRITUALIZED - SWEET HEART SWEET LIGHT One could write a book on how good Spiritualized are.
Review: Four Rooms, Channel 4
2:18pm Friday 20th April 2012
IT’S amazing what some people appear to have lying around.
Review: Titanic, ITV1
3:03pm Tuesday 17th April 2012
I’M getting a sinking feeling. Something cold is leaving me empty, and I’m really rather disappointed.
Review: Finest White Burgundy 2010
1:24pm Tuesday 17th April 2012
Finest White Burgundy 2010, £7.79, Tesco
Review: Emina Pasion Ribera 2009
1:25pm Tuesday 17th April 2012
Emina Pasion Ribera 2009, £12.99, Ocado.
CD Review: Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
4:35pm Friday 13th April 2012
MORE than 20 years into their career, doom-goth rockers Paradise Lost are back with their 13th long player.
CD Review: Evans The Death - Evans The Death
4:30pm Friday 13th April 2012
WITH their urgent and frenetic garage rock sound, Evans The Death are a throwback to the likes of The Fall, The Jam and Lush.
Review: Jacob’s Creek Reserve Pinot Noir 2010
2:07pm Tuesday 3rd April 2012
Jacob’s Creek is Australia’s biggest selling brand.
Review: Extra Special Australian Riesling 2008
2:06pm Tuesday 3rd April 2012
The strong German-winemaking tradition in South
Review: The Apprentice, BBC1
3:30pm Friday 30th March 2012
TWO weeks gone, two girls out.
Review: Little Paris Kitchen, BBC2
4:58pm Friday 23rd March 2012
OOH! la! la! The Beeb has gone all dewy-eyed about a charming young lady living in a shoe box.
CD Review: The Wedding Present - Valentina
1:52pm Friday 23rd March 2012
WHAT can one say about The Wedding Present that their late, great fan John Peel hasn’t already said before me?
CD Review: Frankie Rose - Interstellar
1:48pm Friday 23rd March 2012
> BEAUTIFUL female harmonies clash with echoey guitars, driving basslines and 1980s drum patterns on this excellent CD.
CD Review: Get The Blessing - OCDC
1:50pm Friday 23rd March 2012
BRISTOLIAN four-piece Get The Blessing continue to stretch the boundaries of jazz music on their new long player.
Review: Simply Sauvignon Blanc
4:16pm Thursday 22nd March 2012
This New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc is not as subtle
Review: Caliterra Tributo Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
4:17pm Thursday 22nd March 2012
Grapes from the Caliterra estate in the Colchagua
The Shins - Port Of Morrow
3:40pm Thursday 15th March 2012
I HAVE loved The Shins ever since Natalie Portman raved about them in the excellent indie film Garden State.