SibirPunk - English Edition by Red Square Games NEOSIBIRSKThe city that never sleeps. Built in the middle of nowhere. Clad in ice and covered with dirty snow in winter, heated like an oven and bedecked in smog during the short summer. Encircled by a thick ring of factories an chemical plants. Filled up to the … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) SibirPunk – English Edition
Month: January 2024
GIG 344: Sparrowman / SUS 4 – Powerhaus, 6th August 1997
My third time seeing Sparrowman in the summer of 1997. This time they were playing the Powerhaus in Finsbury Park. We also got there early enough to see the support band of the night, SUS 4. I wasn't all that keen on SUS 4, but can't remember anything about them apart from the listing on … Continue reading GIG 344: Sparrowman / SUS 4 – Powerhaus, 6th August 1997
Angus’ Most Played Top 100 Bands December 2023
Ever since 2010 I’ve kept track of the music I listen to each month. It’s fascinating to see how some bands stay with me over the years whilst others have their moment on my stereo before vanishing from my mind… well, until years later when I check out to see what I was listening to … Continue reading Angus’ Most Played Top 100 Bands December 2023
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Mothership: Player’s Survival Guide
Mothership: Player's Survival Guide by Tueday Knight Games Winner of the 2019 Gold ENnie for Best Game! Winner of the Ramanan Sivaranjan Excellence in Gaming Best G** D*** Books of 2018 award! Mothership is a sci-fi horror roleplaying game where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Mothership: Player’s Survival Guide
GIG 343: The Horatii / Manuskript / Emma Conquest – Borderline – 27th July 1997
It may have been the height of summer but it didn't stop goths coming out in their droves on a Sunday night to see a great triology of bands. I'd seen both The Horatii and Manuskript a couple of times before, but this was my first time seeing opening act Emma Conquest live. This was … Continue reading GIG 343: The Horatii / Manuskript / Emma Conquest – Borderline – 27th July 1997
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Cabal
Cabal by Corone Design You have an agenda. Together, you control a powerful organisation; it might be a company, a conspiracy, cult or corporation. You control vast resources over a global powerbase. You employ teams of specialists with very particular skill-sets to protect your secrets. Your agenda might be anything, world domination, the defence of … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Cabal
(Poetry) New Age/New Drugs/Old Dreams
Along with reams of short stories, and longer attempts at fiction, I’ve written countless poems over the decades. The bulk were written in my teens and twenties and I literally have folders full of handwritten and typewritten compositions. I’d been threatening to put a selection into print since the mid-90’s. I remember discussing it with … Continue reading (Poetry) New Age/New Drugs/Old Dreams
GIG 342: Paradise Lost / The Dawn – Astoria, 13th July 1997
Fresh from a weekend in Oxford I managed to get back to London in time for Sunday evenings planned entertainment - Paradise Lost at The Astoria. I'd seen Paradise Lost back in 1994 (GIG 180) when I hadn't known them (I was at that one for the support band - Die Krupps) and wasn't really … Continue reading GIG 342: Paradise Lost / The Dawn – Astoria, 13th July 1997
A Year in Movies…. 1986 Top 5
1986 seemed a year beset by disaster... with The Challenger space shuttle exploding in January and Chernobyl nuclear power plant becoming the worlds worst nuclear disaster in April. But in other news Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of Carmel, California whilst Halley's comet makes its closest approach of Earth. Desmond Tutu becomes the Anglican Archbishop of … Continue reading A Year in Movies…. 1986 Top 5
(RPG PDF Spotlight) Tales from the Floating Vagabond – Second Edition
Tales from the Floating Vagabond - Second Edition by Reality Cheque An elf, a ninja, and a carnivorous teddy bear walk into a bar… ...what happens next is up to you! If entering your favorite tavern deposited you in a strange space bar, what would you do? Try to get home? Celebrate missing your coworker's … Continue reading (RPG PDF Spotlight) Tales from the Floating Vagabond – Second Edition
Voices From The Pulpit 