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Album Review: The Provincial Archive – Maybe We Could Be Holy

“We hope for a warmer November But we’re changing with the air It’ll be colder soon And we’ll be in the darkness through the daytime Waiting for phone-calls from your…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – DREAD ZEPPELIN – UN-LED-ED

On paper it sounds like a terrible idea, a bunch of stoners playing reggae versions of Led Zeppelin tunes, fronted by an Elvis Presley impersonator. Leaping from your speakers it’s…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – CUD – ASQUARIUS

Love at first sound, that’s what it was. The riff that literally tumbled out of the speakers and then that voice. I knew I’d accidentally discovered one of music’s great…

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Album Review: Harleighblu: Forget me not

If the loss of Amy Winehouse left a soul shaped heart in your record collection, and (as it happens, labelmate) Alice Russell isn’t enough for you, then the answer might…

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New Music: Blessa – Between Times

The American poet John Ashbery once said “Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of…

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Not Forgotten – The Bonzo Dog Band – The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse

One of my favourite anecdotes from the history of rock music recalls the Bonzo Dog Band touring the USA in the late 60s and their minibus being stopped by a…

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Track: Pete Fij / Terry Bickers – Downsizing

I’ve tried to write songs, with no success at all. I can play music all right, but every time I try and write songs, they sound, at best, faintly embarrassing.…

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See: Cold War Kids new video for Tuxedo

I’m not like Cold War Kids. I go days without noticing messages my wife has left me around the house, you know the sort of thing, Can you make sure…

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Track: Eyezon – Rubies and Raindrops

Saying goodbye is always hard. The baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell found a good way around it. ‘It’s time to say goodbye’ he said ‘but I think goodbyes are sad and…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – TORI AMOS – STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS

I must have stood here, staring at my CD collection for half an hour or so. I had known I’d wanted to do an ongoing series of articles for Backseat…

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