Muppets, Avengers and Spiders

The Muppets is released in cinemas across the UK today - you owe it to yourself to go and see it as soon as possible. It's been 12 long years since the Muppets last graced our screens and this new film from the brains behind The Flight of the Choncords looks to put the merry puppets back in their rightfull place as the kings and queens of family entertainment.

Welcome back Kermit and Co - you've been sorely missed.

Elsewhere this week we've seen the latest trailer for Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man. I was sceptical of Marvel properties still being produced outside the Marvel Studios umbrella but minor problems aside (no lab coat and snout on The Lizard) it looks like Marc Webb's take on Spidey might turn out to be okay.

The Avengers also got an extended Superbowl spot online this week and we finally get to see a little more of The Hulk. I'm hoping the combination of Joss Whedon and Marvel's mightiest heroes really delivers the goods this April.

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2011: Music

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Music, music, music. What with digital downloads, Spotify and internet streaming, I’m finding it more and more difficult to keep up with what’s new in music. But 2011 provided some old favourites as well as some new pleasures.

There were great new albums last year from the Foo Fighters, Kate Bush, The Horrors, Wilco, M83, P J Harvey, Duran Duran and Lykke Li along with a greatest hits collection form the Manic Street Preachers. I totally recommend David Lynch’s excellent Crazy Clown Time, which you simply must hear. Foster the Kids hooked me with the single Pumped Up Kicks and their album Torches has several interesting tracks, one to watch this year.

Bret McKenzie’s The Muppets (not released here until February) and Alex Turner’s Submarine soundtracks are full of great songs and compliment their respective films well (at least I hope so in the case of The Muppets – but then it’s The Muppets and it’s bound to be fantastic and I already love the songs).

I’ve put together a Spotify playlist featuring a few tracks from these albums where available which you can listen to here – Songs of 2011

There is still plenty of great music out there for me to discover so if you have any recommendations then let me know.

Finally I must thank Sketch along with Joe Duddell of Phonic FM’s (Exeter’s Sound Alternative) Sketch’s Sunday Scribble for putting me on to some excellent new music last year. This great little show airs locally in Exeter but can be found online every Sunday between 10am and 12pm and is well worth tuning in for.

If your interesting in any of the albums I have mentioned you can get them from Amazon by clicking on these links –

Wasting Light

Skying

50 Words for Snow

Let England Shake

The Whole Love

National Treasures - The Complete Singles (Deluxe Edition)

Wounded Rhymes

Crazy Clown Time

Muppets

All You Need Is Now

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