Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

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News: Garden Festival and Electric Elephant, Croatia – July 2013

I’ll be flying to the channel Islands this summer. More specifically Alderney, I tend to go there every summer. Let me tell you its a beautiful Island, quaint but with…

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Live: Kodaline – The Leadmill, Sheffield 25.3.2013

I had a hard day, and a cold day, and consequently I was grumpy. Number one, there was over a foot of Snow outside our house and temperatures were below…

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Meet: We chat with Mazes ahead of their new album and European tour dates

My mate once won tickets to a band on Manchester’s GLR. That band was Suicidal Tendancies, they of legendary hardcore metal infamy (they were promoting the track ‘Feel like shit,…

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See: Joel Compass releases new video for Back To Me

I think its fair to say that if this new video from Joel Compass is even remotely true to life, me and him live very different lives. Quite often, me…

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Meet: Paul Browse – Visions of Excess, Clock DVA, electronic music….and me.

Imagine this. Born in dour post war Sheffield, you join one of pop histories most experimental bands while still in your early 20s. After almost ten years of making records…

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Track: Low Tide Theory – Time Will Tell, plus album news

When you look at a map of Britain, the thing that stands out about North Devon, is how far away it is, from just about everywhere. It’s on the edge…

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EP: Good Graeff release new EP of gorgeous indie folk – Better Half

You know what they say about dogs being like their owners, well that was the same for music students where I went to University, and I suspect it was (and…

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See: Black Light Dinner Party – New Video ‘We are Golden’

I always loved cartoons. In my day growing up it was a mixture of things. From the funny ones, like Tom and Jerry and Roadrunner (I embarrassingly still laugh out…

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See: Everything Everything Announce October Tour Dates

October 4th. A day that, in 1957, saw the launch of the Sputnik Russian Space Satellite, the first artificial craft to circumnavigate the Earth, and gave rise to what became know…

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Track: Super Water Sympathy announce new album, U.S. tour dates – with free download

It may seem strange for someone born right in the centre of rural England, but my first love was an American girl. She was sassy, she was brave and most…

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