Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns — A Blow for Me, a Toot To You

A Blow for Me, a Toot To You was the first album from this Parliament-Funkadelic spin-off group. Released in the late 70’s, the six-track album served up a very horn-heavy funk/ jazz/soul sound- with, of course, the normal P-Funk vibes and wackness running through it. Here from Ace Records is a recent(ish) CD reissue of the album.

The Angel Guts box — The Angel Guts box(Blu Ray boxset)

The Angel Guts box is a Blu-Ray set that collects together five films based on the cult/controversial manga of the same name, which follows the sexual trials and tribulations of a female protagonist Nami, who shifts characters over the manga/ films. The films featured date from between the late 70’s and the early 90’s. They all sit in the Roman Porno genre, being originally released on Nikkatsu studios, focusing on troubling sleaze and tragedy, with an often arty/ creative spin. All the films have been given new HD remasters, with commentary tracks, and a small selection of new/ archive extras. The set appears on Third Window Films, who are one of the main labels in the West focusing on releasing Japanese film.

Mancunian low-budget Movie Mogul

Cliff Twemlow On Severin

One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.

Repetitious History - A Quick Trip Into The World Of The Fall

The Fall

MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.