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Nathan Haines & the Dream Band

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Devil’s Elbow Sand on Chrome

The debut album from Hawke’s Bay duo Devil’s Elbow is an absolute delight. Frontman and guitarist Alec Withers sings gritty, swaggering vocals, backed up by solid drumming and fine harmonies from former Garageland stickman Andrew Gladstone. The result is some very catchy desert rock with occasional cow-punk and even folk leanings…

A brilliant montage of dance scenes from 40 movies. Footloose was one of the very first movies I saw at age 14 (there was no movie theatre in Balclutha). It was on a school trip to Dunedin to the bread factory and I feel deeply in teenage love with Kevin Bacon. (Shame about Swayze and the fags)…

The Expendables Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, Randy Couture

How we laughed. I’m not a huge fan of Sly Stallone, half the time I can’t understand his lines and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone there. That said, he’s relatively articulate in this shit-kicker of an action film about a crack team of mercenaries.

The Expendables — with a name like that it’s as if they’re willing the mission to fail — are played by Stallone, Jason (The Transporter) Statham and a few others including…

From the 2009 award-winning Bollywood box office hit Magadheera.