Don Blandford, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Black Kids – The 100 Club, London 15.09.2022

A fan clutches a Black Kids colouring book. Black Kids inspire this kind of devotion. He’ll probably colour it in without going over the edges. Then again, he won’t want…

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Live Review: Yann Tiersen / Quinquis – The Roundhouse, London 08.09.2022

As the puddles form around the humdrum town and London joins the rest of this disunited kingdom to enter a new Dark Ages, a little French fun should be just…

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Live Review: Bauhaus – Brixton Academy, London 19.08.2022

There’s soaring inflation, public sector strikes and a cost of living crisis and somewhere in Northamptonshire the band Bauhaus are taking that angst and discontent and creating a goth classic.…

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Live Review: Joe Jackson – London Palladium, London 07.08.22

School was cruel. Blessed with an abundant record box of singles I had a passport to the parties but it came at a cost. Spending my paper-round money on vinyl…

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Live Review: Les Nuits Secretees Festival – Aulnoye-Ameries, France 22.07.2022 – 24.07.2022

Going to festivals and collecting the press accreditation is like childbirth – it’s best to forget how painful the process can be otherwise you’d never attend another festival again. So…

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Live Review: Blood Red Shoes – The Garage, London 14.06.2022

It almost feels like stalking. I’ve certainly followed Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter around over the years. From that captivating moment when I first heard Getting Boring By The Sea…

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Live Review: Kite Festival – Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire 10.06.2022 – 12.06.2022

The kids are alright – they’ve got Glastonbury and Reading but where do you go if you want a grown up festival? To a field situated somewhere between Bicester and…

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Live Review: Wet Leg – Electric Ballroom, London 26.04.2022

Excuse me? That joke isn’t funny anymore, huh? Well, with a debut album hitting the top of the charts packed with infectious songs aplenty and sold out gigs throughout the…

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Live Review: Killing Joke – Eventim Apollo, London 09.04.2022

Be afraid. Two candles flicker at the back of the stage. Those flames can never burn brightly enough to pierce the darkness and break the sense of foreboding. It’s Hammersmith…

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Live Review: The Beths – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London 04.04.2022

After being cooped up in Auckland for a couple of years it’s appropriate that The Beths give us a lesson in ornithology halfway through this gig. Keen to promote the…

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