Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

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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Album Review: Blue Angel – Departures

Fate, it seems played its part with Blue Angel. The first piece of fate happened at rehearsal rooms, the now defunct Backstreet Studios on Holloway Road in London , when producer/Instrumentalist Jason Newton…

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News: Tom Hickox to join Richard Hawley, Band Of Horse and others at Somerset House ‘Summer Series’

In my day it was called YTS. When you wanted to learn a ‘trade’ like plumbing, or typewriting, or being a zookeeper (probably) or a footballer, you signed up on…

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EP: Ty – Kick Snare and an idea (Part One)

I didn’t come from the slums, in fact there’s very little about me that is even remotely ‘urban’. When I was at school we had to do this tracing your…

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