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News: Gary Numan announces new album Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind), plus tour dates

My first gig was seeing Gary Numan (with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark as support) at a sold out Birmingham Odeon on his first major tour in 1979. He was…

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Feature: David Bowie is… exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

It was with some excitement, and a little trepidation, that I took the first train down to London for the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A. To start with I…

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Live Review: Pissed Jeans/ Hookworms, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 04.07.2013

Punk, it appears, is not dead after all. This is the conclusion I came to while driving back home to Sheffield after this gig. Not the 1977 punk aesthetic, but…

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Album Review – The Orb (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry) – More Tales from the Orbservatory

The Orb are very reminiscent of a time in my life when, it is fair to say, I did a lot of chillin’. I was a research student but, unlike…

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Album Review: Saltland – I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us

There are some record labels, and Seattle’s Sub Pop comes immediately to mind, where you know that whatever they release is going to be at the very least interesting. Others…

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Live: The Handsome Family – Greystones, Sheffield 21.05.2013

It is difficult to describe a Handsome Family gig because is it so much more than the sum of its parts. It’s not just the marvellous music, or the magnificent…

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Album Review: Killing Joke – Singles Collection 1979-2012

First up I need to declare an interest. I think Killing Joke are an amazing band. I loved them when they first emerged as part of that morass of styles…

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