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Playlist: Paul Nash, aka North Sea Navigator shares with us his top ten influential tracks

On the cusp of his new album ‘The Memory Clears the Space for What’s Needed’ via Blurred Recordings on 13th April 2018, former Gravenhurst sideman Paul Nash, aka North Sea…

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Soundtrack of our lives: The Fall – Album Definitive Quagmire. In memory of Mark E Smith

I don’t really know why I’m a fan of Mark E Smith and The Fall. Is it the uanabashed Northernness? Is it the mastery of prose? or maybe the fact…

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A buyers’ guide to Flight of the Conchords

I can’t remember the first I became aware of Flight of the Conchords. I had certainly heard of them prior to my friend Mark recommending their TV series to me.…

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Playlist: The Sherlocks pick a tour bus playlist for Backseat Mafia

Sheffield favourites The Sherlocks are heading out on their biggest UK headline tour to date, before heading over to Europe as main support for Liam Gallagher. It follows the recent…

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A buyers’ guide to Kirsty MacColl

Has any songwriter ever been more perfectly human than Kirsty MacColl? Intelligent, witty, wilful, vulnerable, contrary, mind-bogglingly talented, possessing a steely resolve and yet still coming across as approachable and…

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Playlist: John Peel Show 26.6.88 tracks

Whatever John Peel show you use, compiling a complete playlist, or even an accurate one, given the breadth of the music chosen, much of it remaining in obscurity, is nigh…

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Feature: Kevin Barnes : Of Montreal’s Svengali

I’m sitting in my living room after a couple beers and maybe a shot or two of Johnnie Walker Red and I’m on my second spin of the new Of…

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Features: Two Views, Radiohead & Super Furry Animals

3 May 2016 was a day that started out like many others. Then suddenly Radiohead released a new song after years of silence and then it wasn’t. Social Media lost…

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Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Rowetta from The Happy Mondays

Whether its “twistin’ yer melon” with The Happy Mondays or paying homage to Ian Curtis alongside Peter Hook and the Light, Rowetta is the undisputed Queen of Madchester. A very…

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Feature: Best of 2015: Backseat Mafia staffers pick their favourite gig photos from 2015

Before we start looking forward to 2016 and all that they may bring, Backseat Mafia’s live photographers have been taking a look back at the gigs we covered in 2015…

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