Tour News: Against The Current – Gravity Tour
How do you top a year of touring that was incredibly successful? Simple. You do it again in bigger venues. And that’s exactly what Against The Current are doing with…
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DVD Review: Paper Moon (Masters of Cinema)
Double acts have featured prominently in American film. From the early days of Laurel and Hardy and Crosby and Hope, to the heady heights of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance…
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Not Forgotten – Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
Like their sister-band The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev took the scenic route to success. After a messy debut album and an equally messy follow-up they ditched their front man and…
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Track: Eva Plays Dead – Sounds Of The Written Word
Fans of rockers Eva Plays Dead have reason to rejoice as the band have just announced the imminent release of their next EP the 5 track “Sounds Of The Written…
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Not Forgotten: Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
It’s been well over a decade since Scissor Sisters rose to prominence as the perfect antidote to the type of dour faced guitar bands that were taking their music far…
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Meet: Fink: music business is a big gamble
In the world where music is a product of consumption, often cheap, short on nutrition values, and is easy to dispose of when one gets bored of it, finding artists…
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Exclusive Mix: Sebastian Melmoth Datacast
In a shameless bid of self promotion, I thought it would be a good idea to share with avid Backseat Mafia readers an exclusive mix Sebastian Melmoth prepared for a…
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Film Review: The New Girlfriend
‘Based on a story by Ruth Rendell’, is not something you expect to read at the beginning of a François Ozon film. I’ve not read the book, but given Rendell’s…
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Film Review: Spring
In terms of a horror film, Spring is a real anomaly. There’s more chemistry between Nadia Hilker and Lou Taylor Pucci, the two leads, than you see in the majority…
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Live: Fearless Vampire Killers + support, Sound Control, Manchester, 12.05.2015
In the basement of Manchester’s Sound Control tonight are four bands- two of which are looking satisfyingly macabre, all four of which are providing an undeniably great soundtrack of alternative…
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