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Pasolini’s Pigsty

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Pigsty is a heavy going but ultimately satisfying and provocative look at fascism, violence and the bourgeoisie.

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R-awk ‘n’ Roll: The Tazmanian Devils – Live Psychobilly Action!

German psychobilly rockers The Tazmanian Devils filmed live in Nottingham in 2006. Uncut, unedited and as it happened.

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Bye Bye Reprobate, Hello Desperate Living

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Prepare for a harder, faster version of the site you know and love, as the long-mooted reinvention of The Reprobate finally arrives.

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Museum of Witchcraft and Magic

Beyond Gobbledegook: Alchemy, Biopunk And Witchcraft

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The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic’s new exhibition is a fascinating subject drowned in pretentious academic description.

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Family Values: David Cronenberg’s The Brood

Perhaps David Cronenberg’s most personal and unnerving film, a tale of marital strife, bad science and killer kids.

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Hate Monster

Suck On This: Another Collection Of Minor Atrocities

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Woke panic, pub destruction, Hate Monsters and Klaxon chaos – another round-up of life’s minor annoyances and major irritants.

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Never Too Old To Rock – The Unstoppable Nature Of Judas Priest

Rob Halford of Judas Priest is still belting it out on stage at the age of 72. Let’s hear it for rock stars who refuse to age and can still bring it.

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Raw-k ‘N’ Roll: Wild Evel And The Trashbones At The Blast-Off Festival

Continuing our series of archival, unedited, uncensored live music recordings, here’s Austrian garage punk revivalists Wild Evel and the Trashbones playing at the Blast-Off Festival in Nottingham

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The BBFC Doesn’t Know What It Is Doing

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The BBFC prepares to change its guidelines based on fickle public opinion – doesn’t this suggest that its supposed ‘expertise’ counts for nothing?

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The Fear Merchants

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In these uncertain times, is it too much to ask that our news media stop terrorising the public for profit and clout?

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Smokers Wild, The (Cough) ‘Hilarious’ Anti-Smoking Game

Fun for all the family: a board game race to see who dies of cancer last.

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Raw-k ‘n’ Roll: Bitchfits Live In 2008

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Bitchfits – raw and alive in Nottingham 2008. Part of our new collection of lost live performances and video footage from our archives.

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