libertines - up the bracket

Advantages: Some great tunes, Petes Vocals
Disadvantages: Petes drug habit and the bad press it gives the band.

...The Libertines - Up the bracket. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Doherty it seems like you cannot open a newspaper with out some headline or other screaming about his on/off relationship with Kate Moss or his appalling drug habit. What you don't seem to read about is his music, the thing that gave him his fame in the first place, so im here to tell you about it. The Libertines formed in about 1998 when Carl barat and Pete Doherty were introduced to each other by Pete's sister, it wasn't long before they were playing guitars, writing songs and planning their careers in the music world. After this first meeting the boys started to play lots of small gigs with various different band members over the years, even including a 63 year old drummer at one point! The lads had a few ups and downs but come 2002 they...

kylecoare 07.08.2005 · Read review
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Up The Bracket: Everyone Should Own It...

Advantages: A truly stunning album, with a definite swagger and personality. Melodic, very energetic.
Disadvantages: Preconceptions will mean that some people miss out. Ignore them.

...opinion, it's too long, and it's a pity this acoustic track was chosen, since the band would prove on their second album that they could expertly pull off that style of song - the hidden track on their second album, 'France', is stunning. Despite the dip in quality here, the album wouldn't be the same without this track. It breaks up the two halves of adrenaline, and prevents monotony setting in. A very necessary 6/10. 7) Up The Bracket - To the title track, the second half of the album, and a return of the energy from before. A roaring, relentless anthem, perfectly suited to Doherty's vocal style. Every aspect of this song is superb, from guitars, to drums, to singer. The low key, garage-y production is ideal here. A wonderful track, worth the wait of the previous song. 10/10 8) Tell The King - A slower track following the raw electricity...

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Punk-poets first release, Up the Bracket, defined a genre.

Advantages: Uplifting, great value for money, inspiring.
Disadvantages: Parental Guidance for Lyrical Content

...Up The Bracket was the debut album from The Libertines- a four piece post-punk revival band from London. They made their name playing in various bars around London, most noticeably Filthy Macnasty's Whiskey Cafe in Islington. The album is definitely my favourite of all time and is awash with clever lyrics, distorted guitar riffs, screaming and shouting. The opening track, Vertigo, is a mixture of all of this and throws you right in the mood for the rest of the album. The sound is hectic and fierce but never unprofessional. There is definitely an element of The Clash in the sound and this isn't surprising due to the fact it was produced by Mick Jones. At 39 minutes long, it is a relatively short album but even if it were an hour long, I think it would still seem too short. In my opinion the highlight of the album is Time For Heroes. It...

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Up The Bracket - The Libertines

Advantages: What we have all been waiting for
Disadvantages: Pete Doherty pressed the self destruct button

...get them out for the boys in the band". Once again not out of place on a Pistols album however the riffs are more intelligent, the lyrics are better. I am in love with this song for all eternity. 10/10. Radio America - Acoustic guitars?!?!?!? A tune for the people who love Sundays. I think this is a geography lesson as it mentions New Brighton (a place around Liverpool isn't it?), Tokyo, America (obviously) and Mexico... Sounds like it has been done at 3am on the comedown from a fix of heroin. A bit strange, I don't really dig it but others probably would. 7/10. Up The Bracket - Here we go again, punk, punk, punk, PUNK! It sounds ordered here (for once!) but live it will be rag-tag. To some it is blindingly obvious it is about Doherty and Barat's relationship, basically how they can hate each other and love each other at the same time...

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Off the Wall-E!

Advantages: Clever animation
Disadvantages: None

...Most of the mums and dads out there will have enjoyed the recent serge of cartoons that make kids feel like adults or the ones that make adults feel like kids, stuffed full of in-jokes for the grown ups like the family are with popcorn (the worlds biggest mark-up on a food snack!) in the cinemas, a great way to get the whole family into those multiplexes as they gulp their bumper Cokes and the money roles in. But with WALL- E we have the first real carton aimed at adults that the kids can watch too, if they are well-behaved, politically aware pixel animation definitely the future. It really is a smart commercial more by Pixel and a really clever little flick to-boot that they have come up with here, comfortably one of the best films of the year, one you can watch over and over again. I don't normally fall for the hype that the likes...

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The Walls of Time

Advantages: Stunning views, good exercise
Disadvantages: A long, long way up

...Kotor is a beautiful little town on the Montenegro coast. It's a natural harbour and is a real jewel of the Adriatic. I'm going to write another review about the town - this one is about one the main attractions of Kotor - its City Walls. When we arrived in the town we looked up from the hustle and bustle of the medieval cobbled streets lined with busy bars and gazed at the walls which creep up the mountainside, apparently disappearing into oblivion. Montenegro means "Black Mountain", and wherever you stand on the coast, the skyline is dominated by the gloom of the mountains just beyond the town. We contemplated the climb - the heat was intense in the middle of the day - pushing 35 or 36 degreed Celsius, and it looked a long, long way up. The walls snake along as far as the eye can see, and you can just make out the colourful little...

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Wall-E Review

Advantages: Everything!
Disadvantages: I can't think of anything

...Wall-E is a story about a little refuse collecting robot who has been left to clean up the mess we humans have left behind after we fled the earth. Wall-E is all alone on earth except for a pet cockroach. It's when EVE comes to earth that story picks up. EVE is a sleek (and dangerous) reconnaissance robot, sent to earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable. WALL-E falls in love with Eve and so when she leaves on a massive ship he hitches along and learns more than he could ever imagine. I'm gonna say straight off that I love this film, it seems that Pixar can do no wrong and with Wall-E they have created one the cutest, most loveable characters ever seen on screen. As Wall-E doesn't talk there are long periods with no dialogue but this is never boring and you're so thoroughly entertained you'll wonder where the time went...

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Disney Pixar raise the bar again with Wall-E

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: Nothing

...I am sure I am not alone in being a parent of a child who has begged me to take him to watch Wall-E at the cinema since the film first started being advertised a few months ago. Disney Pixar's latest wonderful collaboration had my son hooked from the first ad on TV. He laughed his head off and I thought, 'How could I deny that?!' So, last week, with rubbish British Summer weather, we headed off to our local cinema for pick'n'mix and some Disney magic. The Plot Wall-E is set in a future where the world has changed. The company Buy'N'Large has monopolised the world and turned it into a rubbish site, with piles off rubbish littering its entirety. The human race has long since discovered space travel and made the trip into space on a huge space boat to live until Earth is suitable for a return. Back on Earth, we meet Wall-E, a robot...

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Wall-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Advantages: Laughing
Disadvantages: If u don't like to laugh

... Wall eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Wall-e, a really good movie! Country: USA Runtime: 98 minutes Genre: Animation, comedy Actors: Ben Burtt as Wall-e (voice) Elissa Knight as EVE (voice) Jeff Garlin as Captain (voice) Sigourney Weaver as Ships computer (voice) The story The movie is about a little robot called 'Wall-e'. Wall-e is the only robot left on the planet cleaning up the mess that mankind has left behind. The people have left hundreds of years ago and are now living in luxuriously spaceships. They left with the idea to return after the robots had cleaned up everything on earth, but most of them have giving up on the idea. Back on earth Wall-e is still cleaning the mess, but Wall-e is different for all the other robots, he...

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Meet Wall E.......

Advantages: Fun and entertaining for the whole family
Disadvantages: None

...My wife really wanted to go and see this recently at the cinema using our unlimited card - I was a bit reluctant as the trailers didn't show it to be all that great and I had heard a rumour that there was supposed to be no talking in it what so ever! This had also put me off slightly but considering that we didn't have to technically pay to see it and if we didn't like it we could just go and see another film a little bit later I agreed to give it a shot! The plot - Wall E is a robot that was created to clear up rubbish in the world created by the huge corporation 'Buy N Large' - along with the rest of the robots created the idea was for them to clear the junk that humans have ended up covering the Earth's surface with. There was a massive space ship created to enable all humans to live with all the latest gadgets and gizmos out in...

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