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Aug 9, 14 •
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Got into Mensa after he made the XXL Freshman list – killer video directed by Ben Dickinson with a “Groundhog Day in the club” thing going on. Vic’s on record as saying it’s influenced more than a little by James Blake. I just
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Aug 9, 14 •
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“Balls to you daddy…” Coming as it did wrapped up in The Clash’s double album Masterwork some time in late ’79 it took a while for The Clash’s classic version of the old Vince Taylor 12 bar blues to hit home.
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Aug 8, 14 •
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Comments Off on Wolfhounds – Cheer Up
I have a vested interest in The Wolfhounds, as I’m heavily involved in their back to vinyl series, and did the packaging for this. I expected a little more from the likes of 6Music, who failed to get behind one of London’s old school garage bands
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Aug 8, 14 •
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Comments Off on Philip Selway – Coming Up For Air
Phil Selway, most familiar to us all as Radiohead’s spectacular drummer, showed another side when recording songs for Neil Finn’s 7 World’s Collide charity project. He knocked all participants for six by writing two quite wonderful chill
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Aug 8, 14 •
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Comments Off on Down In The Tube Station at Midnight
“A distant echo. Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains…” The Jam’s classic single “Down In The Tube Station at Midnight” evokes a very real fear – not completely eroded – of being trapped in a violent
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Aug 7, 14 •
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I knew all about Cliff ‘cos of Auntie Chris. She’s still going strong, well into her seventies, but I’ll tell you what she lived the life. She married a bloke who was the spit of Stanley Baker and was a big fan of british rock and roll from
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Aug 5, 14 •
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Comments Off on Motorhead – 1916
Commemorating the great war in song is a serious business, and yet it’s the heartfelt works that spring to mind on the anniversary. Lemmy Kilmister was and still is one of British rock’s legend outsiders. Never taken seriously by critics, he was
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Aug 4, 14 •
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I can’t tell you what a blast it was to hear this on a club sound system for the first time. Because the early hip hop and rap cuts shipped on quality 12″ vinyl, and I had some valve amp disco speakers as best friends, I knew full well what a
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Aug 3, 14 •
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Comments Off on Benjamin Clementine – Condolence
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Aug 2, 14 •
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Comments Off on Little Red Corvette
Little Red Corvette is now such a pop classic – one of Prince’s best known songs globally – it’s hard to remember what a controversial figure he was back in 1983 when this came out.
A blog for me to let off steam about music.
I've had this idea for a while that there's nothing new under the musical sun, so this blog puts me on a mission to travel through music I haven't heard before, and to re-examine the songs I know and love.