Suggestions #4
Written by Amy Armadillo
Monday, 31 March 2008
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Lightspeed Champion, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
Klaxons might be the posterboys for glowsticks and all things New Wave, but the true backbone of all that 80s revival is one mister Devonte Hynes. A former flatmate of the Klax kids, Hynes became an NME darling in 2005 after his band the Test Icicles released one jive album, essentially invented New Wave, declared their disdain for each other as well as pretty much everything else in the world, and promptly disbanded.
But the boi's back. This time he's left the eighties in the past and is going under the name Lightspeed Champion. His absolutely, positively lovely Falling Off the Lavender Bridge is everything folk should be, dressed in a furry hat and a cute smile.
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Election (1999)
We all love Juno, and by now we all know the story of former stripper turned screenwriter Diablo Cody. And whilst a lot of people have made a kerfuffle about the fact that someone can be both attractive naked and - gasp! - literate, this selling point's feeling a bit stale.
What's as fresh as a daisy in spring, however, is Cody citing the cult classic Election as a major inspiration. Matthew Broderick is only slightly annoying as a teacher determined to stop Reese Witherpoon's equally determined Tracey Flick from winning the class president elections. Dark, funny, clever and infinitely watchable - it gets my tick in every box.
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