Issue 398

Film Feast
Mercury Cinematheque
3-5 November

Screening the weekend prior to the official Feast opening, Film Feast has become the tantalizing entre enticing the gay culture gluttons to pig out for the rest of November. In the past twenty years, queer cinema in the United States and Canada in particular has burgeoned. Capitalizing on the wealth of product available, Feast organizers have been able to program two Film Feasts this year- and if the latest offering is any indication, a second helping may not be enough to satiate the punters.

Fionn Regan
The End Of History
Etch'n'Sketch

'The End Of History' is the debut album for Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan - and what a debut it is. Over twelve tracks Regan weaves an almost hypnotic mood of pessimism, forlornness and just a tinge of light and hope. It's certainly not the most positive, uplifting or cheerful album in recent memory, but it is one of the most heartbreakingly honest and beautiful.

"At night time I'd live in Beckenham Park/With tears like flashbulbs/And recall my treasure searching days in the rock-pools as a kid," he sings in Put A Penny In The Slot, strumming his guitar softly, backed by only the most minimal instrumentation through the song's bridge. This is the case right throughout the album, as Regan's voice takes the lead, with the odd violin, backing vocal or patter of drums creeping in and out of the songs in a way that seems almost organic.

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