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Tim Henman was recently good enough to gurn for this wonderful photo.

Helena: "Hullo and welcome to the weekly arts roundup on KOWPAT; I'm Helena Hegarty. This week I decided to do some subcontracting and handed the actual reviewing to Lorraine Riordan who is with us on work experience from Tralee RTC. Lorraine, welcome to the show."
Lorraine: "How's it going."
Helena: "Haven't you been the busy little sausage! This week we got you to review a film, an album and a book! Did you get round to all of them?"
Lorraine: "Oh Christ I did. I did."
Helena: "Grand. Sure we'll start so with 'X Men 3: The final stand'. What did you make of that then?"
Lorraine: "The X men! Oh, a fabalass film. Very crude though. You see, the X men are not your typical superheroes. They're mutants; they have powers that most folk would consider...unnatural."
Helena: "Like?"
Lorraine: "Well...will this be going out after the watershed?"
Helena: "No watershed on public access TV Lorraine, fire away."

Another exclusive on Snackbox diaries as we get a track-by-track walkthrough of "Blackouts and Inebriations"; the corking new concept album from MUSE.

Joining us is Matt Bellamy who is listed on the album as contributing "vocals, guitar, pocket theremin, upright banjo, handclaps, ghost noises, atmospheric clatters". Take it away Matt...

"What's interesting about Blackouts and Inebriations is that it took four years to painstakingly sculpt, yet it only describes six hours in the life of our hero (Benny Wrexler, Starfighter and Raconteur). Benny is just back to Earth-One after a torrid campaign fighting Vermicious Snoods in Hamegga-Nine and decides to let his long flowing blonde hair down."

Billy: "Tell me another story about when you wuz a kid in the wild west, grandpa!"
Grandpa: "Shore thang. How's about I tell y'all the sorry ass story of Juicy James."
Billy: "Yaaay! Juicy James! Juicy James!"
Grandpa: "Yep. Juicy James McDaid used to be a well-respected doctor in the lil' ole town of Little Kenny. Sang in the choir, helped lil' ole ladies cross the street, mayor-in-waitin', that kinda thang. But one day he decided to go to the Camptown races."
Billy: "Uh-oh!"