Ivy League

Advantages Great laid back, mellow tunes, haunting vocals
Disadvantages No lyrics sheet... yep.. pretty much about all really

...Youth Group are an indie band from Sydney, Australia who formed in 1998. They had gained a good reputation from there tours, tempating Ivy League Records to sign them. There first full album release 'Urban and Eastern' soon followed. In 2005 they released there second album under Epitaph Records, making a play to getting there music heard on a world wide basis. (Ivy League still had the Aussie release, while Epitaph distributed the record through the US and Europe). The result was an album full of beautiful laid back, hauntingly mellow sublime tunes. Youth Group are: Toby Martin - Vocals, Guitar Danny Allen - Drums, Keys, Vocals Cameron Emerson Elliot - Guitar Patrick Matthews - Bass, Vocals ---Track by Track--- The album is made up of eleven tracks, being 41 minutes and twenty six seconds in total. We open with... Read review

Advantages It makes you think
Disadvantages Joshua Jackson is pretty poor

...When I was at school I was in the Rugby Team and the Swimming Team – the benefits of which were endless. Actually, a part from the occasional trip (and please remember that School Trips were never as interesting as the ones you went on with other Teams – but that’s another story) the benefits never really started. This, it seems, is one of the downsides of going to the school in the UK. Not so in America! Apparently, all Ivy League colleges have Secret Societies that have so much influence that they virtually guarantee their members future success in every thing that they do – this is the basis of the film “The Skulls”. In the beginning the credits ominously state that at least 3 former US Presidents have been members of Secret Societies (including George Bush and George Junior). Now this is the sort of club that I would... Read review

Advantages Fills a couple of hours, if you'r sick of Wimbledon.
Disadvantages Done before, and better.

...If you believe that the world is controlled by giant lizards, that J.F.K. was assassinated on the orders of his vice president or the moon landing was a film set in Mexico, then this film may be for you. Conspiracy theorists, love them or hate them, it’s hard to ignore them. ‘The Skulls’ then, deals with the secret societies formed at American colleges, particularly the long established and elite ones (Ivy League), and is based on a real society at Yale, called ‘The Skull and Bones’. The opening credits ominously tell us that ‘three U.S. Presidents have been members of these societies’, and although it doesn’t name names, it would certainly explain how George ‘Dubyah’, Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter got the job. Those of you who have seen the film ‘Animal House’... Read review