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Live Review: Reverence Festival, Valada Portugal 2015 – Day 3

“Sunrise Session Featuring 10000 Russos / Mugstar 04:40 – 06:00”! “Sunrise Session Featuring 10000 Russos / Mugstar 04:40 – 06:00”!! “Sunrise Session Featuring 10000 Russos / Mugstar 04:40 – 06:00”!!! If I…

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Album Review: Low — Ones and Sixes

Twenty-one years is a long time to be in a band. It’s quite a long time to be married. It’s a really, unbelievably long time to be married to someone…

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Film Review: Legend

“London in the 1960’s, everyone had a story about the Krays…” This first line of Legend harks back to Goodfellas’ infamous opener: “As far back as I can remember I always wanted…

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Album Review: Public Image Limited – What The World Needs Now…

’Can’t speak for the rest of the world but, certainly, I need this new Public Image Limited album in my life RIGHT NOW! Rotten and co extend their Third Coming…

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Meet: The Telescopes

In the many turbulent winters that enveloped our delicate island since the formation of The Telescopes in 1987, Stephen Lawrie and Co. have sought to plant subversive little seeds into…

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Live: Tramlines 2015 – 26.7.15 – Crystal Bar/Frog and Parrot – Promenade Cinema / Clubs / Delamere / The Mexanines galleries

We took in a number of bands from the fringe of Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival this year. Over at the Frog and Parrot was Sheffield Synthpop duo Promenade Cinema, aka Emma…

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Live Review: Tramlines 2015, Desperate Journalist – Crystal, 26.7.15 plus Gallery

You’ll know if you read Backseat Mafia regularly, that Desperate Journalist are one of our favourite bands right now. On the back of their debut album, which we awarded 9.9/10…

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News: We preview Reverence Valada Festival 2015

Tomorrow starts one of the most novel and exciting music events happening in Portugal at the moment, Reverence Valada Festival. After last year’s excellent first edition of the festival, expectations…

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Album Review: Bang Gang- The Wolves are Whispering

Iceland act Gang Bang are essentially the project of artist Bardi Johansson, who’s been coming and going from the music scene since 1996. Counting three album releases already in his…

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Live Review: A Wild Evening With Halestorm – Liverpool O2 Academy, 17.08.15

Branded as ‘A Wild Evening With Halestorm’, the audience were treated to an array of tracks; old and new, acoustic and electric, covers and originals. Their new album Into The…

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