Chequerboard - Penny Black

Lucky is the artist who could find themselves at abode on very different iPod playlists, and John Lambert - aka Chequerboard - is one of them.

His full-length debut 'Penny Black' would have as much appeal for the lover of guitar virtuosity as the fan of laidback electro or the rocker whose first exposure to the acoustic was the presentation to Metallica's 'Battery'.

It's arguably harder with all-instrumental albums to keep listener's attention throughout, and while Lambert sometimes relies overly much on the same pacing, he's also cagey enough to keep his record astute and succinct - club tracks in 34 transactions.

Behind his brilliant playing there is more than enough ingenuity with machines to say that what comes future will be far more than complex and colourful. And anyone wHO hears this, will look forward to hearing that.

Harry Guerin

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Billy Crystal - Crystal Slammed By City Slickers Sequel Director

Funnyman BILLY CRYSTAL's nice-guy image has taken a hammering from his CITY SLICKERS subsequence director, wHO reveals the actor was challenging on the set.

British moviemaker Paul Weiland expected the film, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, to be packed with good times and laughs - just, instead, it was a terrible shoot.

And he blames his allergies and Crystal for ruination the experience.

Weiland says, "I'm always slimly anxious at first with movie stars because they can either make your life a dream or a living hell.

"Sometimes you get an actor wHO is majorly neurotic or powerful and controlling and it's ugly. Billy Crystal really wanted to be directing the movie.

"If you're hired as a director and somebody says, 'You're not really gonna be the conductor; you're on that point to hold Billy's hand and actually he's gonna direct it,' and then that's fine. But, to not be told that and then to go in, it's an full-scale war - and it's not pleasant."

And when he wasn't dealing with Crystal, Weiland was trying to cope with his allergies.

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