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Glasgow: Goatess at Bannerman’s Bar. If you’re a fan of psychedelic doom-metal you’re in luck tonight! Whether they’re any relation to psychedelic doom metallers Goat (Mrs Goat perhaps?) remains to be seen.
Manchester: Jamie T at the Manchester Academy. He may have terrible teeth but Jamie T has a way with words and a knack for rabble rousing pop. Neither does he stint on the onstage energy, as you will see. If you go.
London: Ariel Pink at the Scala. This week’s Guide cover star brings his unique brand of freakishness to Kings Cross. You can expect everything from garage rock to girl group harmonies via psych. And probably some onstage oddness too.
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Pulp: A film about Life, Death and Supermarkets. Available for one night only on Youtube via Pitchfork, is the doc following Jarvis and co ahead of their emotional Sheffield homecoming show of 2012. It’s embedded below, but if it don’t work, it means you’ve missed your window...
Leviathan. At selected cinemas is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s tale of one family’s disintegration on the fringes of Putin’s Russia. It’s been described as a modern day reworking of the book of Job, but there’s much much more vodka.
Under the Dome, Channel 5. If you fancy picking up this sci-fi drama about an all-American town suddenly trapped under a dome in a human snowshaker style experience, the final episode of the second season may not be the best place to start. If, on the other hand, you’re just curious....
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This Game of Thrones family tree is too big for human comprehension
It’s certainly too big to fit on this page. But basically a bloke called ‘Freerider’ with an avatar that’s a pint of Guinness has created a family tree for EVERY character in Game of Thrones. Even more impressively/mind-bogglingly this is for George RR Martin’s series of actual books, A Song of Fire and Ice.
You can see the full thing here, to get a sense of its scale, you have to zoom out to about -1,000,000% just to get it to fit on screen. Freerider has at least given himself one break, however. While every single marriage is included on the family tree some place, he writes: “Mistresses are only included if they produce children.”
Monday's tune injection: esoteric edition
Kero Kero Bonito - Build It Up
You know how much we love a bit of PC Music at the Guardian Guide, it’s like our favourite thing after braised endives. But here’s a piece by PC affiliates Kero Kero that’s less like a piece of gabba sped up and more like an 80s pop song that has been bounced by a sattelite off the surface of Mars and replayed in a Shibuya lunchtime clubnight.
Hans Zimmer - The Interstellar theme
As the description on the Soundcloud page has it “Hans Zimmer’s peice [sic] of art”. And who am I to disagree. A simple motif repeated and refined, the piece rises and falls like those massive waves on the other side of that wormhole in the box-office bothering film.
Ambassadeurs - From You
Kind of what Rustie might record if he’d had a cup of chamomile tea rather than a Relentless, this is wonky electronica with pitched up vocals and skittering percussion but also a sweet little xylophone melody and some Clams Casino-style monk vocal samples. Deece.
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Take the Bono poll, take it now.
With news that U2 have had to cancel a residence at the Tonight Show after Bono fell off his bike following hot on the heels of the door falling off his private jet mid-flight, Gawker has asked whether someone is trying to kill Bono. We here at Guide Daily do not suspect conspiracy more a malignant alignment of the fates. Which has led us to create this poll: which accident will befall Bono next?
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This week's charts: ANNOTATED
Yes after another busy week of people going out and buying music in ways that seem increasingly outdated, what better way to celebrate than to tabulate those sales then draw over them in digital pen????!@!!!
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