The best NEW band out there! Fleet Foxes

Advantages: Original baroque style folk/rock, groundbreaking album
Disadvantages: Originality can challenge some people's mainstream tastes

...Now I don't often write music reviews, however having recently bought the Fleet Foxes album, I am compelled to rave about them. Now this band are like no other in todays music, however I guess there comparisons can be made with an earlier more ecletic mix of crosby stills and nash mixed with fleetwood mac, add a smuttering of Brian Wilson from the beach boys and Bob Dylan and your kinda getting close. Their routes are definietly in folk music, with what I like to call "Peasant Rock"......weired I know, but its really hard to pigeon hole them and essentially this is why I like them so much. Originality in todays music is the holy grail and much like one of my other favourite bands Sigur Ros, Fleet Foxes stand alone with a unique blend of folky pop/rock. THE BAND Robin Pecknold Skyler Skejelset Nicholas Peterson Casey...

Logan33 06.03.2009 · Read review
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Hurry up, the Fleets in....

Advantages: Great food, there's a brewery underneath.
Disadvantages: No real "taste" of the "real" Liverpool.

...We visited The Baltic Fleet last autumn, when we were in Liverpool for the day. We found it by accident ~ we were looking for somewhere to eat on a busy Sunday and were at The Albert Dock. There were surprisingly few pubs around and what eateries there were looked extremely crowded. This was our first visit to Liverpool so we didn't know our way around ~ so we set off away from the Albert Dock where we could see what looked like a pub; they were bound to be serving Sunday lunches! The street we were on turned out to be Wapping and the pub turned out to be The Baltic Fleet ~ and, oh, it WAS serving lunches; thank goodness 'cos by now we were starving! ~~~How to get there. The pub can be found not far away from the Albert Dock at 33a The Wapping, Liverpool. I'm no good at directions so there is a map at http...

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Jack Sparrow does Fleet Street

Advantages: Great cast, director and musical director
Disadvantages: Awkward performance as a musical.

...Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is essentially a remake of George King's 1936 classic, where the malicious Sweeney Todd murders people for their money. This 2007 version takes Stephen Sondheim's stage production of the tale into the cinema, with the pairing of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp as Director and Lead Actor once again rearing its sublime head. It is important to note from the outset that there are scenes of a gory nature and that the film is by nature a 'musical.' The plot Depp plays Benjamin Barker, a doting husband to Lucy and father to Johanna making his living as a barber. He is accused of a crime he did not commit and banished from London by a judge (played by Alan Rickman) who wishes to covet Barker's wife, Lucy. 15 years later, Barker returns to London under the guise of Sweeney Todd, to find his...

pmcds 19.02.2008 · Read review
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Fantastic place to go if the weather is bad (Fleet Air Arm)

Advantages: Takes a whole day to see, very educational
Disadvantages: None

...My partner recently had a week off work and the weather was terrible so after spending 3 days staying at home getting very bored I decided to search the internet for somewhere to visit that was suitable for when it was raining. I cam across the Fleet Air Arm Museum website, I had herd a lot about this place before but had never been, so we jumped in our car and off we went. On our arrival we parked up in the free car park and headed to the entrance (I just happened to notice a few young men in uniform guarding the airbase lol), you head up a flight of stairs to get in and as soon as you step in the door you are surrounded by pictures of the displays etc and you get the feeling straight away that is going to be a good day. Entrance prices are £11 per adult & £8 per child or two adults and three children for £35, I didn't think...

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Review of Fleet Air Arm Museum, Somerset

An amazing car seat

Advantages: safe, cosy
Disadvantages: none

...Where to buy: This car seat is readily available. You can buy it from all the shops you'd expect to be able to buy them from including Halfords, mothercare, john lewis', toys r us etc. What do they cost: prices vary depending up on offers and stores but usually this car seat retails at £100. How do they attach? This car seat is different to many of the others on the market. It clips onto a base which is attached to your car, This makes it easy to get the car seat in and out of the car without waking up the baby. The car seat base is attached by the seat belt securing it in place and a metal leg which keeps it stable. Are they comfortable? This car seat is very padded and so a nice cosy seat for your baby. It comes with a head hugger which makes it cosy and safe for a newborn. This headhugger can be removed revealing much...

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Review of Maxi-Cosi Cabrio Car Seat

great car seat

Advantages: see rview
Disadvantages: expense, heavy

...I bought this when I had my baby as it was apparently the best on the market and I really can't find fault with it at all it has been the most reliable of our baby products and can't rate it highly enough. This car seat is different from others as it is suitable for up to 9 months whilst the majority of others are just up to 6 months. The seat is well padded and has a 'head hugger' so it is safer for newborns. This headhugger can then be removed once your baby is big enough. The straps also can be adjusted once your baby grows so that it is still safe and comfortable. The straps are easy to use- at first they were fiddly but once you have the hang of them then you know what you're doing they're easy! once you have strapped your baby in you then pull on the straps to make them tight so that your baby is safetly in place...

ditzygirl10 13.10.2009 · Read review
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Fleet Command - WDPAFC

Advantages: Inreased realism, enjoyability, units
Disadvantages: Slower computers have trouble running larger scenarios

...there is anything else that I can say about this add-on, as there is too much to say. I recommend anyone with Fleet Command uses this add-on, as it will certainly make the game more interesting (a slight understatement)....

AdmMcD 11.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of Jane's Fleet Command (PC)

Brilliant infant car seat

Advantages: Excellent for safety, comfort and totally practical
Disadvantages: no negatives for this product

...I used this for my daughter and used it from birth right through to the upper weight limit which is actually higher than most other car seats in this category. She always seemed so content in it and happily napped when travelling. The sun canopy is excellent, great for protecting the baby when driving and carrying about. Sun canopy also stores away easily when not in use, remaining attatched but out for the way. I also bought the easybase which made loading and unloading baby from car very quick and easy - especially when its raining which it so often does here. Also purchased mosquito net & Raincover both excellent purchases and in the UK I certainly needed them. I liked the fact that there were internal pads that could be removed as she grew to enable more comfort and space for her within the seat. Covers are easily removed for washing...

chippy20 22.09.2009 · Read review
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A must-see for all of those car mad boys!

Advantages: The soundtrack
Disadvantages: The characters aren't very strong

...When I first watched this film, I thought it was a loud of rubbish. At the time I was convinced it was probably the worst Disney film that I had seen and wasn't bothered about watching it again any time soon. Noah had other plans and I am currently watching it for the hundredth time! I am not sure if it's a case of becoming familiar with something and quite liking it but this film has really grown on me. The film is based around a famous race car, Lightening Maclean, who gets lost and finds himself in a small town on Route 66 called Radiator Springs. He ends up having to stay in the town after getting arrested and being ordered to fix the road that he broke as a result of wreckless driving. He is desperate to leave and get back in time to win the Piston Cup but as time goes on he makes some great friends. Will he stay and build...

claribella 30.09.2009 · Read review
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Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Advantages: Great acting
Disadvantages: Unimaginative song writing

...When i found out that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were doing another colaboration i didn't even need to know anything else about it, i knew it would be something special. Yet i found myself feeling slightly dissapointed at the end of the movie. The acting was fantastic from a brilliant cast Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd, Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin and Timothy Spall as Beadle. However it is not the acting that was in question. I have seen other Tim Burton musicals, Nightmare Before Christmas the more popular which most people know, and in comparisson to this Sweeney Todd's songs were very repetitive. Yet songs aside, the interpretation of Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street brings me to the conclusion that there could bot have been a more perfect person to direct this movie, Tim...

Tozlator 27.01.2009 · Read review
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