Terry Staunton

1 week ago | uncut.co.uk | Terry Staunton

The phrase “difficult second album” might have been coined specifically for Mike Oldfield, such was the enormity of his Tubular Bells debut in 1973. A soon to be iconic calling card, it squatted in the UK Top 10 for close to a year, its longevity partially due to a signature passage featuring prominently in The Exorcist that same year; a high profile that (initially, at least) sat awkwardly with its reclusive maker.

1 week ago | radiotimes.com | Terry Staunton

The momentum was lost by the time of 28 Weeks Later in 2007 (on which the pair were credited as executive producers), its comparatively lukewarm reception arguably a factor in why it’s taken so long for a third entry in the franchise to get off the ground. Now, having delegated the heavy lifting to others for the last film, Boyle and Garland are back in the drivers’ seats to impart deeper wisdom about the longer-term aftermath of a world gone to hell - their apocalypse nous, if you will.

3 weeks ago | loudersound.com | Terry Staunton

Ian Dury: New Boots And Panties!!Wake Up And Make Love With MeSweet Gene VincentI'm Partial To Your AbracadabraMy Old ManBillericay DickieClevor TreverIf I Was With A WomanBlockheadsPlaistow PatriciaBlackmail ManSex & Drugs & Rock & RollEqual parts music-hall scamp, art school troubadour, estuary poet and new-wave figurehead, Ian Dury was many things to many people.

2 months ago | radiotimes.com | Terry Staunton

The good news is that this is a better movie than either Five Nights at Freddy’s or the truly woeful Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (both 2023), but writer-director Alex Scharfman’s comedy-horror is still a concept stretched beyond its capabilities. Straitlaced single parent Paul Rudd and his infinitely cooler college-age daughter Jenna Ortega are driving to a weekend gathering at his moneybag employer’s country pile when their car collides with… well, you know.

Mar 2, 2025 | loudersound.com | Terry Staunton

In 2011, with original members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain still at the helm, the New York Dolls released their final album, Dancing Backwards In High Heels. Recorded in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the north of England, it bore many of the hallmarks of the Dolls’ glam-trash 70s sound but with a few modern flourishes. We asked Johansen to tell us about it. Why did you record in Newcastle?