Track: The Ratells -Cold Waters (free downloads)
I love getting something for free. Especially when its good. At various points in everyone’s life you get those occasions when luck smiles on you and something comes your way.…
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Jim F
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Founder of Backseat Mafia, obsesser of music, hoarder of records, player of notes, defender of the unheard, ignorer of genre, writer of words, hater of preconceptions.
Track: Jarell Perry – Getaway
At school, I always wanted to be part of a gang. For some reason, the school I went to was big on re-enactments. Not the English Civil War kind you…
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Track: Dick Diver – Water Damage
I think I was about 13 or 14 when I discovered the ‘carry on’ films. I remember, I think maybe my mother was working late, and I happened upon it.…
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EP: Young Peculiar – Young Peculiar EP
We’re not anything here at Backseat Mafia, if not adventurous. It’s not quite three months since we started and already we’ve done things about Jazz, Funk, Indie, Post-Rock Classical and…
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News: Jaguar Skills and his Amazing Friends Tour
I used to do my homework to John Peel. There, I said it. I know it’s sort of expected for everyone involved in music just about to say that. But…
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News: Steel Trees Tour Starts Tomorrow!
The Greek Islands in the brochures, always seem to look so beautiful and tranquil. Behind that though and everyone realises that they can be party Islands as well. When I…
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New Music: Firesuite – Red World EP
When I was fairly young, about 18 I think it was (actually I don’t think, I know because I can remember it so well) my college mate and I went…
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EP: Wet Nuns – Broken Teeth
We’ve written about the Wet Nuns before (specifically here) but they’re back with a new EP ‘Broken Teeth’. The EP was recorded with Ross Orton (Yes, he of Arctic Monkeys,…
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Meet: The Payroll Union Interview
I think it was when I first heard Nic Jones’ Penguin Eggs album that I realised how good Folk music could be. Before that point I’d always imagined it being…
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News: Kodaline Announce UK Tour Dates
So let’s get this straight. Acting as a father figure to his dead brothers children, who (it turned out) may or may not have been illegitimate, and were both discredited and…
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