Mark Kermode has a video blog with concise and nicely relaxed views, reviews and plugs for the stuff he likes. Fan bloody tastic.

I've been hearing only fantastic things about Stan’s Café’s The Cleansing Of Constance Brown. Here's RussL's review.

A live music reviewer who's using this blog to archive his work for a variety of outlets. Met him at the blogmeet last week and he's rather keen (and rather tall).

Deb the gardener goes to the Tim Maguire show at the Ikon and reports at length. via D'log.

"The Academy 2 has the atmosphere of a sweaty armpit at the best of times, tonight it is like the dank, sweaty jock-strap of a sumo wrestler who trains in a sewer and sleeps in hospital waste. Pungent."