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Blade Runner

Brazil

Excalibur

Jacob's Ladder (original version)

Natural Born Killers

And: 2001: A Space Odyssey * Angel Heart * Apocalypse Now * The Big Lebowski * Caravaggio * The Company Of Wolves * The Cook The Thief His Wife…

I've been a fan of Silent Hill since playing the first game on PS1 back in 1999, and it is – the first three entries at least – one of my favourite series. Indeed it was a big influence on…

The second in an occasional series of lists of favourite things. This time round it's the one everybody always asks; favourite authors. I've said elsewhere on this site that my own work is likely more influenced by music than it…

Following my Marc Almond retrospective, herewith an album-by-album look at the music of Love And Rockets, a band I was a big fan of in the eighties and have recently rediscovered. How well does their music hold up thirty to…

As previously announced, my latest spoken-word-with-music album Becoming Akhenaten is now available as a pay-what-you-want download here. 

Text, voice, music, all by me. Recorded May 2022, final mix June 2023.

My next release, the spoken-with-music album Becoming Akhenaten, lands this coming Friday, 16 June 2023. I know I've been promising this one for a while, and here it finally is. I'll post the link shortly, and give it its…

The first of a series of lists of DF's favourite things, from music to books to films and beyond. All will also be collected on the links page.

Coil

Joy Division

She Wants Revenge

The Sisters Of Mercy

Patti Smith

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The third and final part of my retrospective look at the music of Marc Almond.

Stranger Things (2001) ***

Marc Almond is the kind of guy the term 'national treasure' was coined for, but I find that some of his…

Paperback copies of my novel She Waits By The Water are now available direct from me (signed if you wish) for UK readers. I've specified UK here only due to the extortionate cost of sending books overseas; if you're non-UK…

Part two of my retrospective look at the music of Marc Almond, covering the nineties. Scroll down for part one; part three to follow.

Enchanted (1990) ****

Marc Almond's first album of the nineties and first since the #1 hit…