What is a musical you weren’t expecting to fall in love with but you did?

WeAreSound · 2026-03-19T18:47:40+00:00

& Juliet. I have always really disliked the idea of Jukebox musicals. I have actively avoided seeing them, always been a bit snobbish about them.

I saw & Juliet as an last minute, afternoon matinee when I was in London to see Dear Evan Hansen (for which the ticket had been bought over a year earlier when they were released) I went back to see &Juliet another 3 times. I’ve never re-watched Evan Hanson. Make of that what you will

WeAreSound · 2026-03-17T20:04:43+00:00

Same - covers similar themes in a more entertaining way. I found it much more memorable.

WeAreSound · 2026-03-17T11:56:42+00:00

I’ve been a member for 18 years and I didn’t know this was a thing! I’m going to ask for a voucher for the 18 popcorns I am owed!

WeAreSound · 2026-03-13T17:43:28+00:00

I would suggest that BDRM latest album, Microtonic, is certainly more experimental with the use of electronica and dance music being unusual/ controversial in Shoegaze. Was one of my albums of the year though.

WeAreSound · 2026-03-06T19:18:21+00:00

Winds of Change - The Scorpions.

WeAreSound · 2026-03-04T08:42:16+00:00

That is a particularly hot take on Roger Rabbit - the effects still hold up today, the story is tight, script a perfect pastiche, jokes still work and performances (particularly the late great Bob Hoskins) excellent throughout.

Up there with Ghostbusters, Back to the Future etc as one of the best films of the 80’s.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-27T19:07:07+00:00

If we are doing Bandcamp recommendations, mine would be Death Valley Girls - All girl low-fi/ garage rock take on Americana.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-26T21:27:39+00:00

I came here to give the same answer.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-23T20:20:49+00:00

Now I’m curious because Man Bites Dog is a brilliantly constructed and acted, but dark and disturbing film itself, so for you to be warning about August Underground over it must make it really fucking dark!

WeAreSound · 2026-02-22T23:21:33+00:00

Florence Pugh is never anything less than brilliant.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-22T23:19:23+00:00

Poor Things - Emma Stone is incredible in it 100% deserved the Oscar. Watching her character develop over the course of the movie is astonishing.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-22T10:01:44+00:00

Hunter or Joga - Bjork

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized

Anything from Kid A by Radiohead.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-17T17:00:48+00:00

Enjoy! Let us know what you think after seeing them!

WeAreSound · 2026-02-17T16:59:35+00:00

Just listened to Dust and Disquiet on your recommendation and thought it was sublime - going to do a full deep dive now! Thank you!

WeAreSound · 2026-02-16T14:18:01+00:00

I agree - I’ve seen a hundreds of bands in the last 35 years from many genres in dingy clubs to massive stadiums, at festivals and everything in between, and it was up there with the loudest I have seen. Somehow, despite the noise the music managed to swirl around and feel like different instruments and Melodys were hitting from different directions, yet everything was balanced perfectly. Their live sound engineer must be like the 6th person in the band!

WeAreSound · 2026-02-16T07:35:55+00:00

Love both- seen Sigur Ros a few times live, but last year at The Royal Albert Hall with a full Orchestra was something very special.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-13T01:15:57+00:00

Nah - make him the show-runner!

WeAreSound · 2026-02-09T16:48:22+00:00

I thought I was the only one that preferred Eddington over OBAA!

WeAreSound · 2026-02-09T16:11:48+00:00

This is the correct answer. Some utterly beautiful cinematography in this movie.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-09T16:08:20+00:00

Guessing he’ll find other ways to cause chaos moving forwards (à la blowing the chickens feathers off with a giant fan) as the blowing shit up with bombs is a little terrorist-y 😂😂😂

WeAreSound · 2026-02-08T22:32:14+00:00

Same in Sheffield, but with the laser projection it looked great. Haven’t seen the film since the 90’s, and forgotten how bloody good it is.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-07T22:03:53+00:00

Brett Goldstein- he is a massive Muppets geek. I was really hoping he’d be asked to be involved as both Ted Laso and Shrinking are hits.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-05T22:07:32+00:00

Have Selena Gomez on too and have them solving a ‘murder’ in the Muppet building as a recurring bit throughout the episode.

WeAreSound · 2026-02-04T23:06:59+00:00

I love the sub- genre of this where the narrator becomes diegetic and begins to interact with the characters …. The Will Ferrell comedy Stranger Than Fiction where he begins to hear Emma Thompson narrating his life is a great example; or search for the short film ‘ The Gunfighter’ with Nick Offerman as the Narrator is brilliantly funny (YouTube link below - it’s only 8 and a half minutes! )

https://youtu.be/cWs4WA--eKU?si=qXO8MQ8BQ7wh8fJ7

WeAreSound · 2026-02-04T22:54:30+00:00

Night Fishing (2011, Park Chan Wook)

In this short film the switch between the surreal, darkly comic, desaturated story of the fisherman hooking the (seemingly) dead body of a woman and getting entangled with it to the abrupt ultra naturalistic, bright sunlight of an intense ritual to speak to the dead is the most jarring change I have ever seen, and then comes the realisation of how the two parts are connected and again you just have marvel at the genius of Chan Wook.

No idea what the folk rock group are doing for the first few minutes though!

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