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Film Review: My Name Is Salt

We often take our standard of living and comfortable lifestyles for granted. Not to mention modern technology, infrastructure and all the trappings of living in a Western liberal democracy. Precisely…

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EP: Giulio Etiope ft Giak & Hester – Riverside

Out this week was the latest release from Italian label Unclear music, and it comes in the shape of Arezzo, Tuscano born producer Guilio Etiope. He’s no newcomer, having been…

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Album Review: Melanie De Biasio – No Deal (Remixed)

Beligian/Italian singer Melanie de Biasio made a record last year, No Deal, a record that showcased her singing, songwriting, even flute playing. With a voice that approached both Karen Carpenter…

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Live: THE SELECTER – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 8-3-15

“Are you ready to have a good time?” It’s a question that Pauline Black knows the answer to before it’s left her lips. The Selecter are in town and it’s…

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Track: The Dead Ships – Big Quiet

Here at Backseat Mafia, we can never get enough of the kind if Garage Rock that made something of the Strokes, and continues today in the shape of The Black…

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Live: The Unthanks at Leeds Irish Centre

It seems unfair these days to label The Unthanks a folk band when they have clearly moved way past the restrictive traditions of that genre which all too often puts…

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Film Preview: Suite Française

Set in 1940s France and based on the international best-selling work of Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française follows beautiful Lucile Angellier who awaits news from her husband, a prisoner of war…

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DVD Review: Swimming To Cambodia

The Killing Fields was a powerful and moving work of cinema which brought the horrendous actions of the Khmer Rouge to a mass audience. Writer and actor Spalding Gray played…

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Live Review: Halestorm / Nothing More / Wilson – O2 Academy Leeds 05.03.2015

Wilson would definitely win the award for the oddest yet greatest entrance of the night. Vocalist Chad Nicefield enters the staged dressed as an oversized toy solider wielding a marching…

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Track: Portico – 101 feat. Joe Newman, plus UK tour dates

Now minus the quartet, London trio Portico return with a new album ‘Living Fields’, out on 30th March (a week earlier than originally planned) through the constantly brilliant Ninja Tune…

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Film Review: My Name Is Salt

EP: Giulio Etiope ft Giak & Hester – Riverside

Album Review: Melanie De Biasio – No Deal (Remixed)

Live: THE SELECTER – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 8-3-15

Track: The Dead Ships – Big Quiet

Live: The Unthanks at Leeds Irish Centre

Film Preview: Suite Française

DVD Review: Swimming To Cambodia

Live Review: Halestorm / Nothing More / Wilson – O2 Academy Leeds 05.03.2015

Track: Portico – 101 feat. Joe Newman, plus UK tour dates