Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Harleighblu releases new single, Enough Now

I spoke about my parents record collection before. What reminded me of it was reading about 21-year-old Nottingham singer Harleighblu. This smokey voiced sultry soulstress (I’ll stop there before I…

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Track: New single from Manchester electro artist Bipolar Sunshine – Rivers

Marmite and Manchester. Be a good book title that, for someone like Stuart Maconie or something. It’s also true. I’ve had occasions to be there (hasn’t everyone in the UK)…

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Not Forgotten: The Family Cat reissue news and an interview with Fred.

I stumbled on The Family Cat. The record shops I frequented all had it. I picked it up so many times, mainly because it had something that appeared fantastic. The…

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Track: Fat Freddys Drop – Blackbird & the album release show

We have this cleaner. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not one of those rich families that mention to everyone that they’ve got a cleaner because that means we must therefore…

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New Music: Hey Sholay – WDYRWMTB

Odd chap that Walt Disney in many ways, but one thing he did say when he wasn’t accusing, well, just about anyone of being a communist was to say that…

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Album Review: The Flaming Lips – The Terror, track by track

30 years ago the world was a very different place. The brinks matt robbery took place at Heathrow Airport, wearing a seat-belt became law, cabbage patch dolls were all the…

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News: Tru Thoughts reveal London Posse Gangster Chronicle / Money Mad Reissues

Just as the generation before listened to The Beatles, Stones Animals et al do their versions of the American RnB classics, before making their own versions of them, and indeed…

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Meet – The Last Skeptik, plus new album and video

In my day as a youth, the only producer I knew was that one that Ronnie Corbett used to use to give his funny stories some credence. And even when…

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Album Review: Mudhoney – Vanishing Point Track by Track

I always had to be cooler than my brother, musically speaking. At just 18 months younger than me there was always this sort of competitive edge to everything we did.…

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Exclusive: Dan Clayton records Backseat Mafia a bespoke DJ Mix

There’s something about House music that I find so attractive on a Friday night. Of course in the dim and distant past when I was not too old to look…

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