The News Review:

- Thursday 13/03/08 South by Southwest @ Various Venues Austin Texas
- The Middle East’s Leading English Language Daily
- Roots of rock just keep on growing
- Funny Games Delivers a Truly F’ed Up Thriller

Thursday 13/03/08 South by Southwest @ Various Venues Austin Texas
Gigwise – Mar 13, 2008
Gigwise starts our SXSW experience on Thursday the day it all really gets good. At two in the afternoon a very well-known Austin venue Emo’s provides stage time for a great Brooklyn-based band Parts and Labor. Immediately the audience is captivated by the experimental punk essence this band exudes. The four-piece dive into songs that surprise and catch us off guard starting and stopping and starting back up again rather abruptly totally keeping us on our toes… Not many bands’ sound checks leave you wondering whether your eardrums are going to survive their gig. It’s a worrisome feeling. Still we stick it out for experimental-mental metal band Genghis Tron. These guys have been around for a few years and are a force to be reckoned with pushing the boundaries of traditional metal. They don’t even have a drummer or a bassist; instead they use drum machines and three—no maybe four; there are too many to count—synthesisers. The guitarist uses finger-picking to an almost impossibly complex level (if you blink you are going to miss something his fingers are doing to his guitar). They play a fair few tracks off their first album ‘Dead Mountain Mouth’ but decide to concentrate more on their latest album ‘Board Up the House’ which is much more easily accessible to a more “mainstream” audience.

The Middle East’s Leading English Language Daily
Arab News – Mar 13, 2008
I know I would have. In an effort to learn more about this incident I made a tax-deductible long-distance phone call to the Fairfax County Police Department and spoke with spokesperson Sophia Grinnan. I asked her if the officer’s tactics were based on those used by the US Army during its 1990 invasion of Panama when our troops played loud rap and heavy-metal music in an effort to dislodge outlaw dictator Manuel Noriega who had taken refuge inside a piano. fficer Grinnan told me that she did not believe there was a connection. She said that the officer whose name is Andrew Sanderson had simply made a spur-of-the-moment decision to play “All I Want” on the piano containing the squirrel. “He’s musically inclined” said Grinnan adding “I mean the officer not the squirrel. ”In any event for now the situation in Fairfax County appears to be under control.

Roots of rock just keep on growing
Provincetown Banner – Mar 13, 2008
NorthBanner StaffFor those of you who may have missed out on the music of the ’80s don’t despair. It’s alive and well right here on the Cape where the Deloreans can be heard in these parts regularly at both Land Ho! in rleans and Arturo’s in Eastham. In fact they’ll be performing Saturday night at the Ho! at 10 p. so put on your dancing shoes and get ready to boogie… “We play strictly all ’80s music” says Russ Delorey (no connection with the band’s name). “Sometimes when one of the guys can’t make it we play some surf music but that’s very rare. ” Fans of Michael Jackson Guns and Roses Poison Prince and George Michael the band of four gets off on hair metal bands and the thing they love most is sharing their passion. “They are a lot of fun” says John Murphy Jr. bartender and jack of all trades at the Land Ho! in rleans. “They get the crowd moving the place is always packed when they play here. ” An avid fan of the Deloreans himself when Murphy married his wife Tracy a couple of years ago they hired the band to shake up the reception to give the folks a heavy dose of shake-rattle-’n'-roll.

Funny Games Delivers a Truly F’ed Up Thriller
CanMag – Mar 13, 2008
Funny Games Review When the film follows Ann (Naomi Watts) and George (Tim Roth)’s harmless musical game with harsh heavy metal music and titles obscuring everyone’s faces that’s the setup. Paul (Michael Pitt) and Peter (Brady Corbett) insinuate themselves into their vacation holding the family captive with psychological torments. First let’s talk about the word psychological. How many movies have promised psychological terror only to deliver banal shocks and musical cues? No psychological is when the situation is not only outrageous but the implications it has are even worse. Someone can threaten to kill you but if your death leaves an injured party helpless to find rescue that’s F’ed up.