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Not Forgotten: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Nightingales and Bombers

The sixth and final album recorded by the original Manfred Mann’s Earth Band quartet, Nightingales and Bombers was also released prior to the new line up’s cover of Bruce Springsteen’s…

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Blu-ray Review: Neon Bull

The fortunes of the Brazilian film industry seem to be in a continuous flux. Whilst Brazil is a country which has produced memorable works of cinema since the 1930s, undoubtedly…

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Incoming: Funny Cow

Maxine Peake plays the gritty role of ‘Funny Cow’, a comedian who breaks through the glass ceiling of the all-male 1970s comedy circuit to rise to stardom. Set against the…

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Film Review: The Marriage

It would be naïve to think that, despite the major steps forward taken over the past couple of decades in the UK, there’s no longer any stigma attached to homosexuality.…

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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Iron Maiden are a band whose name I have always known, but it is only in recent months that I have felt the impulse to actually investigate their work outside…

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Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned

Pinned is the fifth studio offering from Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers who in their ten year history have garnered a reputation for releasing unique records and putting on…

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Say Psych: EP Review: Mildred Maude – CPA I-III

Mildred Maude are three guys from the West Country, who when left unsupervised in a studio came up with CPA I-III, recently released on The Weird Beard on limited edition…

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Premiere: Harlequiin – Your Hearts Afloat

London based producer and musician Rory Simmons is a musical polymath. A veteran of sessions with the likes of Blur, Jamie Cullum, Paolo Nutini, and, in the last 18 months…

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Track: Ari Roar – Don’t have a fit

Ahead of his debut album Calm Down, out 25th May via the ever brilliant Bella Union, Ari Roar aka Caleb Campbell has revealed a new track taken from it, titled…

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A Beginners Guide to Ian Hunter & Mott the Hoople

Looking back, Mott the Hoople did it all as a rock band. From cult underground heroes, to chart bothering singles and albums, to glam rock superstars that no less a…

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Not Forgotten: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Nightingales and Bombers

Blu-ray Review: Neon Bull

Incoming: Funny Cow

Film Review: The Marriage

Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned

Say Psych: EP Review: Mildred Maude – CPA I-III

Premiere: Harlequiin – Your Hearts Afloat

Track: Ari Roar – Don’t have a fit

A Beginners Guide to Ian Hunter & Mott the Hoople