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2O1bWiyJqbo The Cure - The Perfect Boy Sure i read last week in music week or billboard that the cure have just had three songs in the Spanish top 5!!! - pity that couldn't happen here - might be more intersting than usual.....

dont think it was that shocking...as he has been in ill heath and in Hospital all of last week suffering from pnumonia...very sad (not least as all his parts will go to Cedtic the Entertainer now) - less shocking than Morgan Freeman's car crash until you realize that he's also in the new film Soul Man with Shaft's Samuel L Jackson and Isaac Hayes (hoping Jackson is not worried that there might be a Final Destination type curse on that film :lol: or he would be $h!tting himself....) Bernie Mac: Comedian turned TV and film actor who starred in 'Ocean's Eleven' Monday, 11 August 2008 independent newspaper pbits In February 2000, the director Spike Lee documented two nights of the "Kings of Comedy" tour, featuring the African-American comedians Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Bernie Mac performing their stand-up routines in Charlotte, North Carolina. Lee also shot informal behind-the-scenes footage, including Mac daring the networks to give him a break. "Do I have a television show? Nah," he told the cameras. "Why? Cause you scared of me. Scared I'm a say something. You're right." Released as The Original Kings of Comedy that August, the film broke all box-office records for a documentary and grossed $40m, more than 13 times its original budget. The Hollywood studios and TV networks took notice. In 2001, Fox gave the green light to The Bernie Mac Show, a tough-love sitcom which mirrored its lead's own life story. With a teenage daughter of their own, Mac and his wife Rhonda had taken in Mac's 16-year-old niece and her baby daughter. Meanwhile, a friend of theirs was raising the three children of her drug-addicted sister, while she was in and out of rehab. Blending the two situations into one, the show débuted in 2001 and instantly attracted good ratings. The situations and the leading man's reactions were genuine enough, making Mac all the more believable when he broke the fourth wall to address the audience – "Amer'ca" – as he often did. Not as cosy as The Cosby Show had been in the Eighties, but with a heart all the same, The Bernie Mac Show turned the comedian into a household name in the United States and earned him two Emmy nominations. However, the show experienced dips in popularity and was eventually cancelled in 2006 after 104 episodes. In Britain, Mac was better known for his appearances alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the revived Ocean's Eleven (2001) – and its sequels Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007) – as well as his role in Charlie's Angels: full throttle (2003), the second big screen revival of the Seventies TV series. He was inspired casting as the concerned father in Guess Who (2005), a reverse remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, featuring Ashton Kutcher in the part created by Sidney Poitier and Mac in the Spencer Tracy role. The film demonstrated not only how much the United States had changed since Stanley Kramer's 1967 film but also how broad Mac's comedic appeal had become. A baseball fan who supported the White Sox, when in 2004 he was given the chance to carry a film, Mr 3000, it was as an ageing baseball player returning to the game to score three more hits and justify his nickname. Not for the first time, Mac used his family and based his character on one of his two brothers. But he defended himself vehemently against accusations of exploiting his background. "I'm not telling family business," he said. "My success has come from me being able to talk about the truth that has evolved around my life, and not being afraid. See, Richard Pryor taught me that. People love for you to go up there and express about your pain. You gotta be able to tell the truth about yourself." Born Bernard Jeffery McCullough in a poor part of Chicago, he vowed to become a comedian after witnessing his single mother cry with laughter when watching Bill Cosby on television. "I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy," he said in 2001. "I decided to try and make other people laugh when there wasn't a lot of things to laugh about." However, his first attempts to entertain his friends and family backfired. "My first monologue that I did, eight years old, I got a spanking," he recalled. "I used to mimic people. I was mimicking my grandmother and my grandfather at the dinner table." Despite the punishment, he said, "I was so into the joke, I did it again. That's how dedicated I was to the joke. It started then." Bernie Mac's road out of poverty was a slow one. After his mother's death when he was 16, he lived with his grandparents and other relatives, and took a succession of mundane jobs while trying to make it as a comedian. He had to borrow a suit from one of his brothers for his début at the Cotton Club in Chicago in 1977 and struggled to make the transition from entertaining kids in the neighbourhood to performing stand-up. "Black audiences are hard," he said in 2002. "You got to come with a little extra to satisfy them." His prospects improved after he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search in 1990. In 1995, he hosted Midnight Mac, a short-lived show for HBO taped in his hometown, and portrayed Pastor Clever in Ice Cube's engaging comedy Friday. In the space of a few years, Mac went from bit parts to more noticeable roles, in Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), Booty Call and How to be a Player (both 1997) and The Players Club (1998). He even held his own opposite Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in the con-comedy Life (1999). Although he moved further into the mainstream he always seemed to retain an edge. In 2003, he played Gin Slagel, a store detective, in Bad Santa, the bad taste seasonal comedy starring Billy Bob Thornton. In 2007, he had his first dramatic role, in Pride, based on a true story, in which he portrayed the janitor who joined the fight to keep the Philadelphia Department of Recreation swimming team going in a tough neighourhood. Mac drew on his experiences as a "gym rat" and a former boxer. At 6ft 3in, he cut an impressive figure, though he never seemed threatening, even when he talked about his collection of guns. When he appeared at a fundraiser for the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama last month, his off-colour jokes made national news. Ironically, in 2003, Mac had starred in the comedy Head of State, directed by and featuring Chris Rock as an African-American presidential candidate. Despite health scares and promises to slow down, he kept up a busy schedule. He had recently finished voice-over work for the animated feature Madagascar: escape 2 Africa and filming for Soul Men, with Samuel L. Jackson and Isaac Hayes, as well as Old Dogs with John Travolta and Robin Williams, all due for release over the next year. Pierre Perrone Bernard Jeffery McCullough (Bernie Mac), comedian and actor: born Chicago, Illinois 5 October 1957; married (one daughter); died Chicago 9 August 2008.

I was thinking of getting it, but prefer DIOYY? and might wait till its about £3 and get the Dawn Of The Dead single on whatever various formats it will come out on - it probs the best track on the DIOYY? album... btw following your spot on verdict on the new Simple Miiiii...sorry I mean the new single by Keane....pbv the LOTP album has been playing in all the record shops today and so I've heard Space and The Woods so many time...but who would you say it sounds like... 6PYcl5drPDI&NR ...if its not Gary Numan??? but someone from late 70/early 80s who sounded like Numan but wasnt....that who i guess it sounds like!!?!? 5AJoRggrExQ DIOYY? - Dawn Of The Dead

Well obv the compilers have a certain target market to aim for (apart from me who will buy all of them including 100 kids tunes :lol: )...and they've already done quite a few dance compilations (plus dmg tv's has just released a couple of dance/club classics a couple of weeks ago)...and as 101 Hits is an EMI project quite a lot of stuff will be made up of EMI acts where as the DMG TV ones tends to be SONY BMG and Warners disc 1 1. Things Can Only Get Better - D:REAM 2. Return Of The Mack - Mark Morrison 3. Stars - Simply Red 4. Ain't No Doubt - Jimmy Nail 5. Keep On Movin' - Five 6. C'est La Vie - B-Witched 7. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me - Gloria Estefan 8. Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit Of) - Lou Bega 9. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) - Backstreet Boys 10. I Quit - Hepburn 11. Mona - Craig McLachlan & Check One Two 12. Step By Step - New Kids On The Block 13. I Want You Back - N Sync 14. One For Sorrow - Steps 15. Ooh Ah Just A Little Bit - Gina G 16. Hurt So Good - Jimmy Somerville 17. Cecilia - Suggs 18. Cry For Help - Rick Astley 19. Crying In The Rain - A-Ha 20. Unchained Melody - Robson & Jerome disc 2 1. All Together Now - Farm (The) 2. I Don't Care - Shakespear's Sister 3. Tell Me When - Human League (The) 4. Mulder And Scully - Catatonia 5. Put Yourself In My Place - Kylie Minogue 6. Lucky You - Lightning Seeds (The) 7. Great Things - Echobelly 8. I'll Be There For You - Rembrandts (The) 9. Twist In My Society - Tanita Tikaram 10. Independant Love Song - Scarlet 11. Dreams - Corrs (The) 12. Steal My Sunshine - Len 13. Here Comes The Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze 14. I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat 15. Clementine - Mark Owen 16. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies 17. I'm Only Sleeping - Suggs 18. Give It Up - Hothouse Flowers 19. Crocodile Shoes - Jimmy Nail 20. Wonderwall - Mike Flowers Pops (The) disc 3 1. Something Got Me Started - Simply Red 2. Right Here [Human Nature remix] - SWV 3. Happy Just To Be With You - Michelle Gayle 4. Feel So High - Des'ree 5. Mysterious Girl - Peter Andre 6. Show Me Love - Robyn 7. Missing [Todd Terry remix] - Everything But The Girl 8. Sweet Harmony - Beloved (The) 9. Part Of The Process - Morcheeba 10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Chimes (The) 11. Cleopatra's Theme - Cleopatra 12. Crazy - Mark Morrison 13. If You Love Me - Brownstone 14. Money - Charli Baltimore 15. Guess I Was A Fool - Another Level 16. I Wonder Why - Curtis Stigers 17. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B. Hawkins 18. Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn 19. If I Let You Go - Westlife 20. Stay - Shakespear's Sister disc 4 1. Ready To Go - Republica 2. What Do I Do Now - Sleeper 3. Stop The Rock - Apollo 440 4. You And Me Song - Wannadies (The) 5. Good Morning Britain - Aztec Camera & Mick Jones 6. Road Rage - Catatonia 7. Hush - Kula Shaker 8. 21st Century (Digital Boy) - Bad Religion 9. Place Your Hands - Reef 10. Love Rear's It's Ugly Head - Living Colour 11. Midlife Crisis - Faith No More 12. Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays 13. Take It - Flowered Up 14. Insane In The Brain - Cypress Hill 15. One Week - Cypress Hill 16. Nothing Lasts Forever - Echo & The Bunnymen 17. Every Morning - Sugar Ray 18. I Think I Love You - Voice Of The Beehive 19. It's About Time - Lemonheads (The) 20. Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants disc 5 1. Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite 2. Not Over Yet - Grace 3. Sun Rising - Beloved (The) 4. U R The Best Thing - D:REAM 5. You're Not Alone - Olive 6. Children - Robert Miles 7. Where Love Lives - Alison Limerick 8. Key The Secret - Urban Cookie Collective 9. Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) - Rozalla 10. Something Good - Utah Saints 11. Step On - Happy Mondays 12. Infinity - Guru Josh 13. Swamp Thing - Grid (The) 14. Things That Make You Go Hmmm - C&C Music Factory 15. Mr Vain - Culture Beat 16. It's My Life - Dr. Alban 17. I've Got A Little Something For You - MN8 18. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Jimmy Somerville 19. All I Wanna Do - Dannii Minogue 20. Them Girls Them Girls - Zig & Zag

v8USAOHPLOA Today I have been mostly buying the new singles from the Verve and this (Meccano) by the Red Light Company - and tbh if i had to recomend that you buy one of those two releases this week...it would be this (well go buy the verve as well if it has any chance of knocking katy perry off #1 :lol:)

but i guess nobody but a select few will be intersted now...another release that will probs end up briefly in the shops as an after-thought of the album campaign...but most trnady scenesters will be thinking the subways - thats album so passe now and will be onto the next big album launch campaign...

...but even the Stereophonics and Travis throw up good tunes once in a while among all the boring over-played radio dadrock and MOR jangle....obv Dakota was great and Travis' Selfish Jean was saddly overlooked by most people (i guess radio would rather play Why Does It Always Rain On Me - or fukking Chaising Cars :puke2: :lol: - again) and The Boy with No Name was not actually as bad as i thought it was gonna be (well it ended up being a bit dirge-like in places as expected but overall alright & i guess worth the couple of £ that it cost).... G0sES3nzgsU Travis - Selfish Jean btw would the best way now to describe travis would be "like del amitri..."but with better or worse hair :lol: wa1IRGtp9Gw del amitri - roll to me (disturbing video alert!!!!)

cHITX5H9RNo Isaac Hayes - Ike's Rap II/Help Me Love woRtoRiVMcA Tricky - Hell is Around the Corner yF-GvT8Clnk Portishead - glory box So which one Tricky or Portishead, put that Isaac Hayes sample to the best use?

So I guess in light of his death your purposely forgetting his #1 - Chocolate Salty Balls :lol: :lol: 7j2mzeyGZ8Y Sam & Dave - Soul Man It's very sad it came soon after the re-activation of Stax by the Concord Music Group, the 50th birthday of Stax and the promise of a new Hayes album, which i doubt was completed or even started (at least Curtis Mayfield managed to get the final hurrah of New World Order out - whilst paralized recording on his back - a few years before he passed away) and whats even more scary is that he managed to complete a role in a new film - Soul Man with Bernie Mac...!!!! :o and Samuel L Jackson...who was scheduled on film4 last night in the film......Shaft (even before the death was announced :o ) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Isaac_Hayes,_Hot_Buttered_Soul_Album_Cover.jpg tho in this moment i would divert from playing Shaft (too obv) and either go for the Hot Buttered Soul album or probs the most famous sample in trip-hop.... cHITX5H9RNo Isaac Hayes - Ike's Rap II/Help Me Love woRtoRiVMcA Tricky - Hell is Around the Corner yF-GvT8Clnk Portishead - glory box

neally 50 albums from the £1 sale

Youre surprised how many times you laughed - i'm surprised someone could laugh more than once (the Verne Troyer out-take was the only time...and i think maybe someone could have a smirk at the Wayne's World reference...but not a full laugh so we'll disqualify that :lol: ) But this was one of the worst film of the year....and much worse Steve Martin's Pink Panther (which has now gone up in my opinion - tho maybe the Pink Panther is more a kids film as actually my bro's kid likes it and was watching the other day when he came round) and tbh might have been better if Mike Myers did fully go for a Peter Seller's Goodness Gracious Me comedy Indian accent and been more offensive blacking up than playing it like Brendan Fraser's hairy peadophile brother (by the way of devendra banhart)....tho for a moment you could have easily mistaken Prudence for being played by a Blackface Jessica Alba in a duel role before realizing that it was actually Meagan Good...seeing as both could have been that interchangable both seeming to have come off the same kinda comedy babe sidekick production line (tho the Alba version being made of 100% wood)

Yes it was very cheesy and the 3D became a bit of a irretant at some points in the film (even more so than watching the Jonas Brothers in 3D on the Hannah Montana Concert)...but actually didnt think it was as bad as 10,000BC or as boring as I Am Legend and actually as for 90 minutes held my interest alright and more better seeing that than the love guru.... tho afterward I did go an see Man On Wire...which was excellent...

The Film4 FrightFest horror festival will strike fear into the heart of Leicester Square (Odean West End)from Thursday 21st August 2008. Thursday 21 August 2008 Eden Lake (World premiere) Destined to be the most controversial and provocative British movie of the year is this 'hoodie horror' written and directed by James Watkins, co-writer of My Little Eye, writer of Gone and The Descent 2. Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve escape London for a romantic weekend away. Steve has found an idyllic lakeside beauty spot and plans to propose. But their peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite causing threatening havoc. When tempers flare and sudden violent attack occurs, the distressed couple must flee for their lives and endure a chilling game of cat-and-mouse Frighteningly well acted by Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and yob ringleader Jack O'Connell Eden Lake is uber-disturbing in its horrifying content and stark imagery. Bleakly unrelenting in its tapping into current concerns about out-of control youth culture, it's a compelling and unsettling shocker marking Watkins as a major new talent. 90 minutes Director: James Watkins UK 2008 I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (World premiere) Mass murder? It's just not cricket! Be bowled over Down Under by a vengeance-crazed serial killer with an impressive moustache in Stacey Edmonds and Doug Turner's co-directed comedy horror. After bullying endured two decades earlier at an exclusive boy's school, someone is using an arsenal of razor-fingered cricket gloves, sharpened stumps and nailed balls to slash their old team to ribbons. But which of the remaining eleven is the 'Pommie bast*rd psycho' spoilsport? Detective Inspector Kim Reynolds gets them together to find the answer. Batting way above average in pitching its shock, and fielding knowing nods at many classics of the genre from Friday The 13th to Dressed To Kill, the sticky wicket splatter combines upper class British sensibilities with brash Aussie humour for a fun test match. The gore is top draw, portraying a devilishly twisted imagination, and the murder weapons are absolutely hilarious. Who said cricket was boring! 85 minutes Directors: Stacey Edmonds & Doug Turner Australia 2008 Scar 3D (UK Premiere) The big news in Movieland is 3D. Major studios and star directors are embracing the fully immersive format to create dimensional thrills and spills on a never-before-seen scale. Be the first to witness the latest trend in full tilt action with Jed Weintrob's gore-in-your-face slasher. Years ago Joan Burrows became a victim of Erne Bishop, a crazed undertaker with a penchant for mutilating young girls in his morgue torture chamber. She killed him, escaping his sadistic clutches and becoming a local hero. But returning to her small-town home to visit relatives, it looks like someone is copying Bishop's horrific modus operandi. As teenage girls go missing once more and the bloody clues gather, the police pinpoint Joan as their prime suspect, forcing her to face her deepest fears to apprehend the maniac. Eyeball-popping, blood-spurting, scalpel-waving chills leap from the screen in scarring 3D. You won't believe your eyes! 94 minutes Director - Jed Weintrob USA 2007 Friday 22 August 2008 Time Crimes A trip back in time, from present to crime. Hector and his wife are spending a routine afternoon unpacking furniture at their new house in the Spanish countryside. Strange things start to happen. He receives an odd phone call. Then as he lounges in the backyard with binoculars, he catches a glimpse of a topless woman in the woods. Deciding to explore, hoping for more salacious peeks, everything starts to go wrong. A man with a pink-bandaged face starts attacking him and he escapes to a very strange facility manned by a lone and suspicious scientist. Tightly and intricately precision scripted by writer, director and star Nacho Vigalondo, pay close attention because everything you see is a referential jigsaw image as Hector travels back in time and meets the last person he expected – himself. David Cronenberg is down to direct the American remake so time to take note of Time Crimes. 88 minutes Director: Nacho Vigalondo Spain 2007 The Substitute (UK premiere) Say goodbye to your last day on Earth. From Ole Bornedal, director of both Danish and American Nightwatch thrillers, comes prized science-fiction horror. Sixth grade has a new substitute teacher. Ulla Harms is ambitious and wants to take the class to Paris for an international competition. But the schoolchildren only see her as a sadistic mistress who has the ability to read their minds. None of the parents believe their offspring when they say she's an evil outer-space creature from another planet. Except student Carl has witnessed her strange powers of robotic transformation. Will the Faculty ever discover Ulla's true identity or unmask her diabolical body-snatching plan? Paprika Steen's wicked performance as the lovelorn alien and Dan Lausten's award-winning cinematography push this fun and fearsome existential shocker into an altogether unique stratosphere. A terrific story, wonderfully executed and proof positive Europe can match the Americans at great sci-fi pulp fiction. 93 minutes Director: Ole Bornedal Denmark 2007 Trailer Park Of Terror (UK Premiere) Based on the cult Imperium Comics series, and wearing it's 'Tales from the Crypt' bleeding heart on its sleeve, Trailer Park of Terror meshes tongue-in-cheek satire with nerve-shredding gory horror. Six troubled teens and their Pastor chaperone, on a character-building weekend in the mountains, crash their bus during a raging storm. Seeking shelter for the night in a seemingly abandoned mobile home park they become victims of redneck zombies, sexpot demons and undead trailer trash. Paying exuberant tribute to Southern-fried 70s exploitation fare, director Steven Goldman keeps things creepy, vicious and nasty with human spit roasting and a massage parlour from hell on the Dixie menu. Superlative production values, grisly makeup effects by Christopher Hampton (Apocalypto) and composer Alan Brewer's down-and-dirty mix of rock and country music make the over-the-top menace and mayhem standout like Dolly Parton's cleavage. And, yes, that is chart-topping C&W singer Trace Adkins as the Devil. 97 minutes Director Steven Goldman USA 2008 Mum & Dad (English Premiere) You don't have to go to Texas for a deranged cannibal family. Try Heathrow Airport. That's where cleaner Lena is stranded after her night shift. She accepts help from perky colleague Birdie who lives nearby with her parents. But her home turns out to be the worst House of Horrors. For Mum and Dad abduct lone immigrants, torturing and debasing them into becoming part of their murderously dysfunctional kin. And Lena is their latest victim to find out that a family who sexually plays together also slays together. A genuinely shocking, darkly witty and tense little terror, newcomer Steven Sheil pushes all the boundaries in his brilliantly executed directing debut. Part Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, part Frightmare all infused with matter-of-fact violence and nerve-wracking disgust. Think Tobe Hooper meets Mike Leigh for the horrendously unique delights on offer in this very British nightmare. 90 minutes Director: Steven Sheil UK 2008 The Strangers (UK premiere) A spare, creepily atmospheric ominous thriller with a death grip on the psychological aspects, Bryan Bertino's brilliantly suspenseful directorial debut is enormously unsettling. Returning late from a wedding reception, Kristen and James pull into his family's South Carolina lake house for what was supposed to be a romantic night. But she's just turned down his marriage proposal. Their fragile relationship in the light of her refusal heightens their vulnerability later when a strange girl pounds on the door at 4 o'clock in the morning asking for someone who clearly doesn't live there. Slowly and steadily, the situation escalates: a few more knocks on the door, some disturbances from inside, and finally, the appearance of masked figures emerging from the shadows. The couple's worst nightmare has just begun… An all-too effective nerve-jangler, with stars Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler credibly registering every nuance of panic, intense horror doesn't get much scarier. 85 minutes Director: Bryan Bertino USA 2008 Freakdog (World Premiere) From Paddy Breathnach, director of Shrooms, comes a supernatural shocker with a deadly difference. Hospital janitor Kenneth Chisholm gets caught with voyeuristic photos on his mobile phone by a group of trainee medical students. When they confront him over his sleazy actions in a local bar, he has an epileptic fit putting him into a deep coma. But when remorseful Catherine Thomas administers an untested cocktail of wonder drugs to hopefully help ease his condition, the perverted patient is jolted into a startling 'out-of-body' state. Those heightened powers allow his spirit to enter the medics in turn so they will carry out his bloody brand of murderous justice vengefully on each other. Everyone's a possible killer and nobody knows at which stage they might be possessed. How do you go from being a doctor committed to saving life to one taking it in the most violent way imaginable? 90 minutes Director Paddy Breathnach UK 2008 Bad Biology (UK premiere) Acclaimed Basket Case, Brain Damage and Frankenhooker director Frank Henenlotter makes a marvelous return to twisted sleaze with his latest perverse tale of warped love and sexual weirdness. Driven by biological excess a woman with seven clitorises, and a habit of giving birth to mutant babies two hours after sex, meets a man who has been feeding his pen*s with growth steroids. The hilarious result is a tour-de-force of surreal bad taste, extended orgasms, p*ssy-cam shots, naked models wearing vagina masks, 24-inch member points-of-view, endearingly bizarre special effects and feminist issue raising. Shot in superb 35 mm and featuring a surprisingly strong performance from Charlee Danielson, plus a Prince Paul hip-hop soundtrack, Bad Biology is guaranteed to shock even the most desensitized horror lover. A gloriously unapologetic throwback to crazed midnight movie pleasures in the grand John Waters manner. Welcome back, Frank, we've really missed your brand of sickness. 85 minutes Director: Frank Henenlotter USA 2008 Saturday 23 August 2008 Fear(s) Of The Dark (London Premiere) Take a trip into adventurous animation in the new style Renaissance and Persepolis trend with a creepy cartoon anthology. Comic book legends Charles Burns and Blutch lend their inimitable designs to the weird bogeyman haunting the far reaches of our collective subconscious. From a besotted student whose girlfriend is rather strange in her ardent affections to a Japanese student menaced by a long-dead samurai to the spooky goings-on in a remote house of shadows to a pack of hounds on a bloodthirsty rampage, famous graphic artists present their visions of terror in a creatively rich and beautiful black-and-white Pop Art portmanteau of phobias. Impressively disconcerting and showcasing a stunning range of animation styles, Fear(s) Of The Dark is arty and arcane in its drive to cause sleepless nights. It's one of Guillermo Del Toro's favourite fade-to-grey movies of the moment. Need we say any more? 80 minutes Directors Blutch Marie Caillou Jerry Kramski Pierre Di Sciullo Lorenzo Mattotti Richard McGuire Romain Slocombe Michel Pirus USA 2008 Dance Of The Dead (London Premiere) Strictly Dead Dancing! Hard to imagine but director Gregg Bishop takes tired zombie splatter to giddy, deft and innovative heights with a comedy horror gem that hits the gore ground running and never loses its hilarious sparkle or marvelous momentum. Working from a consistently clever screenplay by first-timer Joe Ballarini, a toxic leak from a nearby nuclear plant causes the dead to rise just as Cosa High School pupils get ready for their Hawaiian Hula themed prom night. And the only ones who can save the day are the geeks, outcasts and weirdos who weren't cool enough to score a date. Owing joyful debts to George Romero’s Dead, Dan O’Bannon’s Return and John Hughes’ smart teens, the carnage is spectacular, the grave bursting sensational and the sly performances a delight. Everything you want from uproarious scares to bloody mayhem in a blast of an experience you won’t quickly forget. 95 minutes Director Gregg Bishop USA 2008 Manhunt It’s the summer of 1974. Four friends have planned a recreational weekend hiking and camping in the forest. At a remote truck stop they pick up an anxious hitchhiker who only after a short ride demands they stop the vehicle. She is clearly frightened of something…but what she can’t begin to describe in her carsick terror. Suddenly the group are ambushed and left unconscious. When they wake up deep in the woods, all they can hear is the sound of a hunting horn. The game is on and they realise with nightmare shock that they are the prey… The goriest movie ever to come out of Scandinavia, Patrik Syversen’s debut feature is an intense and brutal character-driven survival horror in the fine Cold Prey tradition. The screaming terror is made more genuine by terrific camerawork that doesn’t allow any time to relax for even one second. 78 minutes Director Patrik Syversen Norway 2007 The Chaser (UK Premiere) The hunter and the hunted: the ultimate chase begins in the incredible but true South Korean box office hit. Disgraced ex-cop Joong-ho Eom runs a faltering call girl racket in Seoul’s red light district. His girls are disappearing and he thinks they are running away, but the truth is they are being tortured, murdered and buried by impotent serial killer Young-min Jee. Unwittingly sending Mi-jin Kim to meet the same 'client', he realizes his mistake too late and accidentally tracks Young-min down. But the incompetent police force can’t find evidence to arrest him even though Young-min confesses. With only 12 hours left for the police to detain him or set him free, Joong-ho searches for Mi-jin as proof not knowing if she's alive or dead. Director Hong-jin Na applies David Fincher's dark Zodiac style, uncomfortable atmosphere and cruel Seven twists in a suspense chiller headed for an American remake. 123 minutes Director: Hong-jin Na South Korea 2008 Bubba's Chili Parlor (World Premiere) What could a B-movie nut working at TGI Fridays in downtown Dallas do during his time off? Get his friends and family to appear in homage to the 1970s Drive-In experiences of his youth, that's what. Bartender-turned-director Joey Evans put his tips where his mouth was and directed a splatter horror, ensuring grindhouse familiarity remained intact by including fake intermissions and commercials. Bubba runs a respectable chili parlor in rural Texas. Everything is fine until he receives some free government meat. Little does he know this special delivery is tainted with a mutated strain of virulent Mad Cow Disease. With infected zombies already on the loose, anyone who tastes his new batch of world famous chili will soon join the army of the undead. Anarchy begins, and the Zombie Lord, a regal, bloody, detached head, begins his reign of terror from the parking lot. A rip-roaring micro-budget gem with heart. 80 minutes Director Joey Evans USA 2008 The Midnight Meat Train (UK Premiere) Horror express based on a novella from Clive Barker's 'Books of Blood.' Struggling photographer Leon Kauffman wants to capture the dark heart of New York City for an art gallery exhibition. Desperate for inspiration he snaps a subway mugging that puts him on the trail of a serial killer butchering victims on late night trains. But the police don’t believe him and become suspicious of his 'stalkerazzi' methods. Determined to prove his innocence he continues to track the silent stranger on the train. In the bowels of the Big Apple rail network he unearths a sick and twisted secret. Bolstered by director Ryuhei Kitamura's (Versus) superb direction - full of Dario Argento -style crisply shot composition and stunning Brian De Palma -type camera choreography - The Midnight Meat Train is a profoundly disturbing, viscerally mesmerizing, ultra-gory, white-knuckle thrill ride that terrifies to the end of the line. Mind the doors! 98 minutes Director Ryuhei Kitamura USA 2008 Tokyo Gore Police (UK Premiere) The splatter is unequalled and the mutilation mayhem astonishing in the debut feature from Japanese special make-up and effects guru Yoshihiro Nishimura. Future Tokyo is plagued by a bio-mechanical virus taking the form of a key-shaped tumour. This causes homicidal psychosis in the Infected, dubbed 'engineers' for their ability to manufacture weapons out of flesh wounds. Ruka is an officer in the privatised police force tasked with tracking and eradicating this murder-crazed breed. Locating the mysterious source of the contagion, Key Man, her investigations uncover a history of genetic experimentation and abuses of power that not only caused her father's death but also lead to the highest echelons of fascist law and order. David Cronenberg body horror and insane RoboCop-style TV commercial inserts meet freaky Samurai bondage splat-stick starring Eiihi Shiina of Audition fame. Hold on tight for the bloodiest, most outrageous and inventively enjoyable shocker in ages. 108 minutes Director Yoshihiro Nishimura Japan, 2008 Sunday 24 August 2008 From Within (UK Premiere) Religion, suicide and witchcraft are the terrifying threads of cinematographer/director Phedon Papamichael's (3:10 To Yuma) supernatural shocker. Inexplicable deaths are plaguing the village of Grovetown. Fundamentalist fanatic Dylan blames the seeming suicides on dark forces - in particular outsider Aidan, just arrived back in town after the suspicious fiery death of his mother whom the locals proclaimed a devil-worshipper. Soon Dylan's girlfriend Lindsay has joined Aidan in trying to stop a curse. With inventive staging and a refreshing take on psychological horror, Papamichael makes supernatural presence palpable while keeping terror personal. As the situation reaches critical mass and skeletons tumble out of closets, it becomes clear that guilt, as much as faith, is at the heart of Grovetown's troubles. And in a stunning climax From Within proves teen horror is best served when pitched with a grown-up frame of mind. 90 minutes Director: Phedon Papamichael USA 2008 Let The Right One In (English Premiere) The award-winning Swedish shock sensation of the year is Tomas Alfredson's stunningly directed juvenile vampire saga written by John Ajvide Lindquist (adapting his acclaimed novel). It charts the budding friendship between bullied loner Oskar and angelic Eli, his new neighbour. But Eli requires freshly tapped human blood to survive and Oskar might just be the person to replace her ageing guardian getting sloppy in his covert murder methods. Alfredson adopts a naturalistic approach to developing the core relationship and the duo's parallel dramas, using long takes and static shots, combined with Hoyte van Hoytema's gorgeous cinematography and Johan Soderqvist's perfectly pitched score, establishing a strangely captivating mood. Adult in unsentimental tone, chilling texture, and encompassing a full spectrum of provocative emotions, Alfredson's subtle masterpiece is a remarkably moving and genuinely frightening evocation of childhood terrors, fantasies and frailties. It immediately takes its place among the classics of the vampire genre. 114 minutes Director: Tomas Alfredson Sweden 2008 The Brøken (UK Premiere) Broken mirrors, fragmented souls, shattered minds - Edgar Allan Poe goes Alfred Hitchcock in director Sean Ellis's superstitious tale of the supernatural. Radiologist Gina McVey finds her life turned inside out when she sees her exact double drive by in a car. Following the mysterious doppelganger to a London apartment, things become stranger still when she begins to question the true identities of those around her. To her family, she appears to be losing touch with reality. But she is determined to prove them wrong even though she can't be sure whose life she is leading - her own or her psychotic body double's. Further proof, if any were needed after the wonderful Cashback, that former fashion photographer Ellis is a consummate visual stylist and a brilliant filmmaker. It's the stunning look, the eerie tone and precise pacing of this world of reflective horror that makes The Brøken such a haunting, pulse-pounding and ethereal experience. 88 minutes Director Sean Ellis UK/France, 2008 Autopsy (World Premiere) Written by Adam Gieraschand Jace Anderson (Mother Of Tears, Toolbox Murders), former B-movie horror actor Gierasch makes his directorial debut with homage to such gore slashers as Doctor Butcher MD. It's Mardi Gras and Emily Hosfeld, boyfriend Bobby and friends Clare, Dmitri and Jude have had the time of their lives. On their way out of New Orleans, a car accident leaves them injured and stranded on a lonely Louisiana highway. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital. With a minimal staff and many empty wings, the hospital is an eerie place, but that's only the beginning. Dr. David Benway and his sinister staff are using patients in gruesome experiments. It's up to Emily to rescue her friends and escape the surgical terrors and medical menace. A new talent on the American independent horror scene, Gierasch is currently prepping his splatter remake of Night of the Demons. 85 minutes Director Adam Gierasch USA 2008 Martyrs (UK Premiere) The most talked about, contentiously divisive chiller at this year's Cannes Film Festival was director Pascal Laugier's esoteric development of an everyday tabloid headline into a blood-freezing nightmare underworld. A disturbing uncompromising work with challenging ideas and extreme violence that tells the spine-tingling tale of a group of rich elite enforcing martyrdom on those most susceptible to torture distress. The victims witness religious nirvana at the climax of their intense suffering, letting the elite learn secrets from beyond the grave. Multiply Inside by Frontier(s) and Switchblade Romancefor the full impact of Laugier's masterpiece. A viscerally audacious, ballsy piece of brilliant filmmaking Martyrs is an astounding blend of the surreal, the excessive, the repulsive and the totally unpredictable. 2008's most unforgettable and controversial horror experience - prepare yourself for its strangely beautiful, utterly thrilling and profoundly astounding shock conclusion. 100 minutes Director Pascal Laugier France/Canada 2008 Jack Brooks Monster Slayer (UK Premiere) A wild and crazy homage to such '80s horrors as The Evil Dead, From Beyond and The Fly, oozing slime, weird creatures, gruesome transformations and good old-fashioned geek gore fuel director Jon Knautz's mutant mind-meld. Jack Brooks is a moody young plumber given to fits of uncontrollable anger whenever he hears Bobby Darin's pop classic 'Beyond The Sea'. And with good reason: During a camping trip years earlier, he was traumatized by the sight of his family being devoured by a bloodthirsty beast. Trying hard to be normal, he takes night school science classes with his girlfriend Eve. But when their professor (genre icon Robert Englund) is transformed into a multi-tentacled monster thanks to an ancient black heart that forces its way inside him, Jack at long last finds a useful way to channel his violent temper. A slyly amusing, genially energetic and consistently entertaining campy horror comic destined for cult classic status. 90 minutes Director - Jon Knautz Canada 2007 Monday 25 August 2008 The Dead Outside A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the airborne virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the dying infected scared, paranoid and violent. In the stark aftermath two survivors come together at the isolated Braehead farm in desperate circumstances: April, a young mysterious girl with a dark secret past has survived alone for months; Daniel, a man desperate and bereaved, clings onto some hope in the outside world. When enigmatic stranger Kate turns up, they are confronted with a new enemy even deadlier than the one beyond their barbed wire secure perimeter. As Daniel clings to his own sanity, he finds the true enemy lies much closer to home. Directed by broadcast promo genius Kerry Anne Mullaney in spare style with a dark aesthetic edge and undercurrent of seething menace, this Scottish shocker is a jolting mood piece confirming her rising star North of the Border. 93 minutes Director: Kerry Anne Mullaney UK 2008 Film4 FrightFest Short Film Showcase THE AMAZING TROUSERS (11 minutes) Director: William Felix Clark Starring: Kris Marshall, Alice Eve, David Bamber A meek bank clerk enters into a Faustian pact with a sinister tailor, agreeing to trade his legs after one year in return for enjoying wealth and success wearing a pair of red trousers. THE CHEST (5 minutes) Director: Can Evrenol A Turkish boy turns up at his family home with a chest. What he does with what’s inside is not for the squeamish. HE DIES AT THE END (4 minutes) Director: Damian McCarthy You know what’s going to happen. But will you withstand the shock? A BREAK IN THE MONOTONY (4 minutes) Director: Damien Slevin In the animated aftermath of a zombie outbreak, a Jack Lord/Hawaii Five-0 lookalike walks the streets. PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE! (15 minutes) Director: Robert F. Cosnahan III The Snakes and Skulls Club are initiating a new member. Welcome to the Axes of Evil! HOMEWORK (7 minutes) Director: Ariane Lippens Even aliens have science projects. TOTAL FURY (12 minutes) Director: Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell, Anouk Whissel ln unscrupulous boy lures a girl into the woods. Where’s Arnold Schwarzenegger when you need him the most? ANYONE THERE? (10 minutes) Director: Holger B. Frick A beautiful woman alone in an apartment, the burning question "Is anyone there? DVD (15 minutes) Director: Ciro Altabas Zombies, Ninjas and Cyborgs are the three things that will always improve any movie, especially one with its own menu, extras and director commentary. NORMAN J WARREN PRESENTS: HORRORSHOW (30 minutes) Welcome, Fright Festers, to the HORRORSHOW. Presented by a master of 70s British horror, it’s a blood-drenched anthology showcasing five tales of terror to delight the darkest side of your soul. Over the course of 30 gore-spattered minutes you'll encounter the NEON KILLER; purveyor of a legendary and sadistic crime spree that has eluded two grizzled detectives - until now. THE FLEA finds a psychotic vampire hunter trying to coax his erstwhile partner back into the fold for one last slaying, in a disturbing, contemporary take on the vampire myth. THE INCURSION finds an intruder turning up more than he bargained for in a house full of dark secrets. THE INITIATION invites you to take a trip far outside the city limits to a place where arcane rituals have replaced all reason and sanity. And in SMILE, a young woman is left with a lasting impression of a failed relationship. From the deranged minds of five up and coming UK directors, HORRORSHOW is a riotous concoction of 80s sleaze, 70s giallo, English gothic and rural horror, wickedly twisting familiar genre trappings with sly humour and some diabolically inventive splatter. The Disappeared (UK premiere) Matthew blames himself for the mysterious disappearance of his younger brother Tom. He was partying at his London council flat when Tom went missing. With police at a dead end, Matthew starts hearing chilling voices on the recording of a news conference and begins questioning his sanity. Blamed and ignored by his troubled father, he visits a clairvoyant who reveals a history of missing children in the area. When his best friend Simon's sister is also abducted, the ghostly voices guide him to the shocking truth. For in an underground labyrinth he is confronted by a satanic killer and terrifying knowledge that dark forces are manipulating destiny. In the tradition of The Omen and The Sixth Sense comes a superbly acted and thrilling British supernatural shocker. Bound to attract critical attention and key awards, The Disappeared will put debut director Johnny Kevorkian on the genre map as a major discovery. 96 minutes Director: Johnny Kevorkian UK 2008 Mirrors (UK Premiere) Do Mirrors reflect what you really are? From Alexandre Aja, the acclaimed director of Switchblade Romance and The Hills Have Eyes, comes a stunning re-imagination of the 2003 South Korean horror hit Into The Mirror. Ben Carson is a troubled ex-cop relegated to security guard duty at a high-end department store after a botched hostage rescue attempt ended his career in law enforcement. The fashionable store has its own tainted past due on a fire that resulted in horrific fatalities. Now mysterious deaths of employees and customers are occurring beside the floor mirrors. Ben begins to suspect supernatural powers at work and starts to investigate the strange and eerie events. He discovers that there are murderous reflections out for revenge using the mirrors as a gateway and offering a whole lot more than seven years' bad luck. 90 minutes Director Alexandre Aja USA 2008 Death Race (UK premiere) Eat Jason Statham's dust. A penitentiary full of hardened felons has inspired their sadistic jailers to create a grisly sport ripe for lucrative kickbacks. Now, in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, those adrenaline-fuelled inmates, a global audience hungry for televised violence and a mega-massive arena combine for the brutal Death Race. Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames is an expert at survival in this harsh landscape. Just as he thinks he's turned his life around, the ex-con is framed for murder he didn't commit and forced to don the mask of the mythical driver 'Frankenstein'. In a monster car fitted with machine guns, flame-throwers and grenade launchers he must win the most twisted cannonball run on Earth against the most vicious criminal adversaries, or rot away in prison for life. Juggernaut action, turbo-driven thrills and spectacular car crashes feature in director Paul WS Anderson's fast and furious, hit and run blockbuster. 100 minutes [TBC] Director: Paul WS Anderson USA 2008 FILM4 FRIGHTFEST SEASON With the Film4 FrightFest set to strike fear into the heart of Leicester Square from Thursday 21st August, the Film4 channel will be bringing the horror home with a FrightFest season that leads up to the big weekend itself. From Friday 15th August, we'll be bringing you 11 nights of double-bills featuring firm fear faves both classic and contemporary. It all kicks off with the UK TV Premiere of Km 31 Fri 15 August at 10.45pm, one of the hits of last year's festival. This spooky tale of a haunted stretch of road and a ghost with a grudge is the third most successful homegrown hit ever released in Mexico, and it'll get you in the mood for the long nights of horror that lie ahead. The season also delivers some typically terrifiying tales from Japan, with Takashi Miike's Ring-like One Missed Call and a double-helping of the trend-setting JU-ON films - The Grudge (Fri 22 Aug at 12.55am) and The Grudge 2 (Sat 23 Aug at 1.20am). Master of Italian horror Dario Argento is represented by two of his darkest and most diabolical creations - the creepy mystery Deep Red (Tue 19 Aug at 1.30am) and the Satanic majesty of Suspiria (Tue 19 Aug at 11.30pm). And British filmmakers Neil Marshall and Danny Boyle do the their best to create domestic disturbances with their shockers The Descent (Wed 20 Aug at 10.45pm) and 28 Days Later (Fri 22 Aug at 10.45pm). The season comes to a close on Bank Holiday Monday 25 Aug at 11.35pm, with a very special screening - a fully-restored version of the 1973 horror anthology film THE VAULT OF HORROR. This classic creepshow comes from the popular Amicus studio, which specialised in film collections of short, sharp shockers with a twist in the tale. Until now, THE VAULT OF HORROR has only been shown on TV and video in a cut version. However, we've given it a new lease of life and returned it to its former gory glory. Full listings for the FrightFest season on Film4 Fri 15 Aug 10.45pm KM 31 12.45am Frailty Sat 16 Aug 10:45pm The Cell 12.45am They Sun 17 Aug 10.45pm Blade II 12.55am One Missed Call (2003) Mon 18 Aug 11.25pm Dawn Of The Dead (2004) 1.20am The Entity Tues 19 Aug 11.30pm Suspiria 1.30am Deep Red Wed 20 Aug 10.45pm The Descent 12.35am The Island (short film) 12.55am The Blair Witch Project Thur 21 Aug 10.50pm Blade II 12.55am Re-Animator Fri 22 Aug 10.45pm 28 Days Later 12.55am Ju-on: The Grudge Sat 23 Aug 11.30pm Freddy Vs. Jason 1.20am Ju-On: The Grudge 2 Sun 24 Aug 10.35pm Dawn Of The Dead 12.30am Suspiria Mon 25 Aug 11.35pm Vault Of Horror 1.15am Death Watch

Well yeah the film could have easily been the pilot for a Addison Montgomery/Hank Moody tie up than Mulder & Scully :lol: and tbh might have been better if it wasn't an X-Files film and gone for the torture-porn market instead...just lacked a certain something...

well i guess the pop career was just seen as an add on to the success of Disney's Lizzie McGuire at first whereas with Britney films would be an add on to the music career - a kinda brand extension

not joy division as i know who they are...band with a name like chamelons

Yeah Asia Argento would be good tho I think she would be overlooked as she's a kinda more leftfield name...and more likely to end up in a Euro arthouse film with Marianne Faithful than as Catwoman.... tho trying to think of an [female] actor who is very feline and would suit the role perfectly...but unfotunately is 've been in the pop section talking about Hi-NRG (Liza Minelli and Pet Shop Boys)...the only name thats coming to mind at the moment is.... ....Eartha Kitt :lol: :lol: 7vGAa4Fdww8 hbg5i6TI5xg

except if the meaning of dated...is sounding like a 1967 record by the Turtles...which is obv a good thing....and Automatic High (one of the most under-rated pop songs of ultra modern times) is still a million times better than If This Is Love....think i keep to that an GA's the show S Club Juniors - Automatic High SepI7Ym2gwU THE TURTLES - Happy Together (1967) gkVM-jGNn04 Terry Hall - Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme QiiLQH_2fjY

What the heck you talking about...? Course she is.... Duffy is basically a modern-day equivalent of Dusty Springfield, erm, so Dusty wasn't a "mere" Pop Star either I take it. Dusty certainly tried different styles, but she essentially remained a "Pop Star".... :rolleyes: GAWD, why is it that people want to try and totally mis-label things......??? Duffy is POP..... Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done To Deserve 0YMkpIAIGB0 and is the above video a record by a Synthpop duo and a female soul star....or a Gay Hi-NRG electronic disco act in love with Bobby Orlando and the Boystown Town with a old 1960s pop star....hmmmmmmm??? tho could be either depending on what's in vogue at the time.... QDbyum68Cpw Liza Minnelli - Losing my Mind and where does Adele and Will Young go.....??? with Beverley Knight, Joss Stone and Sam Sparro :lol: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006YFD.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg oLyKTrBAbck Eg White and Alice Temple - Indian 0ZwPRbaI9BI Eg White and Alice Temple - Doesn't mean that much to me

Maybe if Eurotrash was still being made :lol: :lol: Alexander Bard M.O. seems to be inventing up acts that could be the house band on Eurotrash (and actually i think the Army Of Lovers were on the very first episode)....BWO are good but Bard will have to go a long way to top Crying At The Discoteque (with its Spacer sample) http://www.davidthedesigner.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/15/eurotrash.jpg Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque YUUq0lVylgE Army of Lovers - Crucified vYT2aWavXlc http://meloman.com1.ru:8061/WWW/TotalRecall/I_NY/Pics/ArmyOfLovers.jpg Army of Lovers - Obsession QG0vIiwWGGo Army of Lovers - Judgment Day 4JLf4_R8-YU Vacuum - Science Of The Sacred K2R2874_Bzc

WTF????? i think the person who started it has the rite for a discussion, just coz u dont like it doesn't mean any1 else dus!!!!! Yay, I'm very glad this has been re-opened - I really did not agree with its locking, just because someone doesn't like a song doesn't mean they can close the entire thread! Agree totally with BillyH!!! I don't know think you could get worse...as far as trashy eurodisco goes Vengaboys one of the better acts...(tho i'm surprised that they've never been bollocked by the Village Peaple for knicking their act and making it less gay...innuendo in vengaboys cheekah bow bow not with standing :lol: ) KFdrmiBWp_4 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Move_your_body.jpg and thinking of tunes that are not too far away from cheekah bow bow - isnt it time for an Eiffel 65 revival?? esp with Ultrabeat in the charts with discolights think AATW could licence some Eiffel 65 mixes (my fave from the europop album is Eiffel 65's Hyperlink ) HBw7wstICXw and btw would The Rigga Ding Dong Song be better or worse than Boom Boom Boom Boom? uVJLFfRYOj0 Passion Fruit - may most of them Riggadingdingdingrest in peace :lol:

yeah i think its in Sweden :lol: :lol:

Whats that band that Interpol (and Editors) are suppose to be like from that time...is it chamelons? (along with Kitchens of Distinction)

I havent listened to it yet - but I guess it will be like the albums by Klaxons and DIOYY? - very hit and miss...

wont be...doubt radio will bother with it after MM.