Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

Film Review: In Search Of A Lost Paradise

The Russian expressionist painter, Oscar Rabine, is known best to the anglophone world for being the primary instigator of the infamous Bulldozer Exhibition of 1974. However, it is his late…

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Meet: The Scaffold’s Mike McCartney on the reissue of the McGough & McGear album

Most novelty number ones are rubbish but a notable exception to this rule is The Scaffold’s flower power classic Lily The Pink which still raises a happy smile five decades…

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Box set review: Skeletal Family- Eternal: Singles, Albums, Rarities, BBC Sessions, Demos 1982-2015

The Skeletal Family were part of the Goth sub-culture that sprang up in the 1980s but they were never really in the movement’s first division like The Sisters of Mercy…

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Live Review

Live Review: Non Plus Ultra at Cafe Oto, 05/02/16

Our culture is obsessed with looking at the past. If culture had a body, it would be contorted, bending over its own limbs, straining to catch a glimpse, through the…

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See: Heavy Heart Release video for Time will stand still

From the smoggy streets of Southeast London comes a scintillating new sound which in no way reflects the location of their inception. After releasing their initial EP, winning a competition…

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Reissue: Julia Fordham – Julia Fordham

God, if this album was any more 1980s it would come with a free Ra Ra skirt and fluorescent leg warmers. But despite the overproduced tinny guitars, hideous fretless bass…

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Album Review: Milk Teeth – Vile Child

Milk teeth are the band you’re going to be spending the next few weeks struggling to get out of your head. With the release of their debut full length album,…

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News: Rosie Lowe announces debut album ‘Control’ & UK tour

Rosie Lowe is the latest what seems like an never ending production line of talented English singer/songwriters and on a wave of massive media hype she releases her debut album…

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Album review: Ashford & Simpson – Gimme Me Something Real (expanded edition)

Ashford & Simpson made their name knocking out tunes for Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Aretha, Diana Ross and Chaka Khan before joining a long list of songwriters who one…

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Album review: The Long Ryders – Final Wild Songs

If the Flying Burritos invented country rock then the Long Ryders pretty much created Americana so it was always bizarre there was no decent retrospective of their impressive back catalogue.…

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