John Tatlock

When The Pan-Dimensional Shit Hits The Telekinetic Fan: Stranger Things 2

Can Netflix and The Duffer Brothers make good on the promise of last year's surprise word-of-mouth hit, asks John Tatlock. **Contains very mild spoilers**

Game Of Thrones Season 7 – Falling At The Final Hurdle?

Game of Thrones returns, with all of its grandeur intact, but its grace increasingly absent. ***Contains mild spoilers***

Box Fresh: A 2017 General Election Special

We forced our TV critic in residence John Tatlock to live-tweet last night's General Election, in this special edition of Box Fresh he reports back from the most extraordinary of nights in.

House Of Cards Season 5 Reviewed By John Tatlock

House Of Cards Season 5, presents an oddly comforting vision of a White House with no bigger problems than a complete lack of morality, says John Tatlock. CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS

Twin Peaks Season Three: No Cosy Nostalgia

John Tatlock prepares himself some damn fine coffee and stays up all night to bring us the first review: The alpha programme of modern TV returns, but you'll find no cosy nostalgia here, he says

Doctor Who Season Ten: The Pilot, Reviewed By John Tatlock

Doctor Who shakes off the ponderous bloat of recent years, and emerges lean, sharp and strange, says John Tatlock

Iron Fist Is A Leaden Five Knuckle Shuffle, By John Tatlock

After some spectacular highs, the Netflix's Marvel Universe shows have painted themselves into a dull narrative corner, says John Tatlock. ****Contains spoilers****

Ryan Murphy’s Feud & BBC’s The Replacement Reviewed By John Tatlock

Two shows about two women not getting along with each other, one of which is cleverer than it looks. ***Contains mild spoilers***

The BBC’s SS-GB: The Downton Abbification of Nazism

John Tatlock reports on a bizarrely genteel imagining of conquest by a murderous totalitarian enemy, in which everyone has an excellent haircut

Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends) Reviewed By John Tatlock

Against all the odds, tonight's HBO documentary on the Paris Bataclan terror attack is a joyous and life-affirming thing, says John Tatlock. *Contains mild spoilers*

HBO’s Beware The Slenderman: A Very Modern Tragedy

This unsettling documentary about child-on-child violence is difficult to watch, but an important and powerful piece of work, says John Tatlock ****Contains mild spoilers****

Sherlock And The Adventure Of The Declining Standards

Season Four of Sherlock is a relentless fan disservice that holds its audience in contempt, says John Tatlock. WARNING: enormous spoilers throughout

Incorporated – The Future Of Disaster Capitalism

SyFy's new show has flaws, but is more boldly political than its genre peers, writes John Tatlock. *May contain mild spoilers*

Andrew Marr interviews Marine Le Pen, American Horror Story & Mars

Our new TV columnist John Tatlock writes about non-fiction, fiction, fiction pretending to be non-fiction, and the front-person of a horrible faction. ****May Contain Slight Spoilers****

Westworld, The Walking Dead & The Exorcist: TV’s Unholy Trinity

Cliffhangers and guessing games may be a necessary evil of episodic TV, but they aren't the same thing as narratives, says John Tatlock, tQ's new TV correspondent. *****Contains some mild spoilers*****

Cracked Actor – Hooked To The Silver Screen With Bowie

Lifelong Bowie fan John Tatlock decides to get to the bottom of that age-old pub debate – can David Bowie actually act? – and unearths some priceless clips and details from an alternate but no less chameleonic career

General Election 2015 & Why Parliament Deserves To Be Hung

If - or, more likely, when - today's vote reveals that no party has a majority, it won't be a reflection of voters being apathetic, rather the blasé attitude of those they're voting for. This, John Tatlock argues, doesn't necessarily have to be seen as a negative

The Noise And How To Bring It: Hank Shocklee Interviewed

John Tatlock speaks to Hank Shocklee about key Public Enemy productions and other sonic innovations

LIVE REPORT: Prince In Manchester

John Tatlock once danced so hard at a Prince gig that he broke his leg. We send him to see the great man and 3RDEYEGIRL to see what breaks this time around

George Pringle

Gulfo Dei Poeti

“Nasty Idiotic Tripe”: Stand Against Julie Burchill’s Years Of Transphobia

Why are we surprised at Burchill's bigotry, asks John Tatlock, after all, she's been venting poison about trans people for well over a decade

An Unnerving & Profound Beauty: Bjork’s Biophilia Live

John Tatlock is wowed by the debut of Bjork's Biophilia in Manchester, deeming it "a joyful trumpet blast for rationalism"

Classified X: Race & Kings Of Leon’s ‘Radioactive’ Video

"Woah-ho! This cross is on fire" Kings Of Leon's new video for 'Radioactive' flirts with dangerous aspects of racial stereotyping, argues John Tatlock

A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age

As Lord Mandelson's anti-piracy Digital Economy Bill begins its uncertain journey through parliament, John Tatlock investigates the music industry's most troubled decade yet and says 'stop whining, it's only a scratch'.

The Beatles Rock Band & The Rise Of Computer Game Music

From The Pleasuredome to Beatles Rock Band - video games and music celebrate their silver wedding atop a mountain made of cash, says John Tatlock.

David Bowie

Space Oddity 40th Anniversary Edition

Speech Debelle’s Mercury Win – A Blessing, A Curse Or Just A Wad Of Cash?

Speech Debelle has just won this year's Cillit Bang Mercury Prize — so her troubles are just beginning, right? Hmmm, says John Tatlock. Live Pictures by Alyson Blanchard

Kevin Cummins Hits The North – Joy Division To Oasis Caught On Camera

As legendary NME snapper Kevin Cummins exhibits photographs of his Mancunian muse in Yorkshire, we present a gallery of his photographs and hear the curious story of Ian Curtis' pink suit. Interviews by John Tatlock

Marc Almond

Orpheus In Exile: The Songs Of Vadim Kozin

Oasis Split: What Next For Noel Gallagher?

What next for Britpop's most conspicuous under-achiever asks John Tatlock. Maybe Amorphous Androgynous point the way forward

Tear Gas And Hip Hop: A Different View Of The Stone Roses’ Debut

John Tatlock responds to Neil Kulkarni's review of The Stone Roses' debut album, and finds there's more to the band than often meets the eye

Les Paul Obituary: A Sonic Pioneer Beyond The Guitar

He might be best known for his six string creations, but Les Paul was responsible for many more musical technologies. John Tatlock investigates